I am sorry
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Glad to hear it Chad, just take it slow and steady.
About the average number for anyone who posts cute or funny gifs regularly, I'd imagine
Chad, glad you're back. Glad to hear you're feeling better (not "good" necessarily, but better than then, at any rate). Hope you'll be able to hang on to the joy of reading. Be well, and be back.
I am a bad Canadian; I don't like hockey or Tim Horton's.
This is not unlike me, in many ways. I am often very (too?) pragmatic, which has, on occasion, given some people the sense that I am cold-blooded, while I consider it more sang-froid.
Ottawa is one of my favourite cities on the planet, but I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so I'll make you buy me all the coffee I can drink... Which is all of the coffee.
We will get scotch drunk. Also, you have to give all the username glory to @phil who is mostly responsible for it.You and I never talked a ton when I was really active here, but your posts often entertain me and I seriously think you have one of the best usernames on the internet.
You seem like a really, genuinely good person, and I am so sorry that life is treating you like shit right now. Please know that you are loved by many people and respected by even more. You have lots and lots of people -- myself included -- who are very glad you are still with us and are in your corner wishing you a speedy recovery. I hope someday you and I can meet up at a HF event and get scotch drunk together
This is crazy. I had no idea you could do that.
Sometimes I am concerned I cannot feel loved; this is certainly a symptom of my depression, but it can be very disturbing and emptying as it results in my inability to feel the strength of others' support. Nevertheless, the repetition of it does reinforce the knowledge that when I may not feel loved, I am wrong.
I just want it on record that I do have a printer, but it's in the closet because I have no good spot to put it at the moment. Also I have no ink for it.
Oh yeah.
Not many; 3 or 4, since my brother was logging onto my account once in a while.
Mainly Dostoyevsky (he is my favourite author): Netochka Nezvanova and The Adolescent, the latter of which I am about halfway through. I've also been reading The New Yorker and The Economist.
... At the risk of sounding snarklicious, is Russian literature REALLY what you'd like to be reading right now as you climb back from a serious depressive episode? *wry smile*
I'm glad that you're getting to a point where you can look at stuff analytically again... I know that when I have my troughs, I know I'm on the road to recovery when I can start thinking coldly, rather than emotionally again.
Keep plugging away, brother. And you know that just about each and every one of us would and will be willing to listen and talk, any time, any place.
I'm glad that you're getting to a point where you can look at stuff analytically again... I know that when I have my troughs, I know I'm on the road to recovery when I can start thinking coldly, rather than emotionally again.
Keep plugging away, brother. And you know that just about each and every one of us would and will be willing to listen and talk, any time, any place.
I know, right? I find it wonderful in its intensity, and Dostoevsky has this way of creating such passionate, real characters whose thoughts and actions can, to an eerie degree, mirror my own. In The Adolescent, a character kills himself, and the shock and emotional response of the narrator, as well as his reactions to the behaviour of those around him, is a weird perspective to recognise immediately after a suicide attempt. I wonder that it hasn't been good for me, though macabre. At all events, The Adolescent is not nearly so dark as Crime and Punishment or Demons, and is even sometimes very funny.
Neither do I but I won't tell if you won't tell.
"sang froid" is literally French for "cold blood."
I meant more that some people seem to think that the proper response to being glum or depressed is to lie to you "for your own good," or throw you an irrationally exuberant party to force your happiness/self-esteem up to some kind of minimum functional level, as if you have some kind of "happiness tank" that simply runs low and needs to be topped up from time to time. These are probably the same people who think that turning your thermostat up to 90 will warm your house up faster in Winter.
Personally, I do not suffer from chronic depression, I am merely chronically depressed, which is different. Therefore, I have no first-hand experience with your condition. I also know that people on this forum do not always present themselves as they actually are, which means that since I have not met you in person, I do not know which facets of your personality you choose to emphasize and which ones you suppress. Given the events, I can make some guesses, but in-person confirmation is difficult, and therefore unlikely.
Still, it is good to hear from you again, and I look forward to hearing more from you than the occasional goofy sentence.
--Patrick
What he said.
Glad to hear from you Chad.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. I'm still doing the Out of the Darkness Community Walk on Saturday which supports the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention which not only does research into suicide prevention and public awareness campaigns, but also funds advocacy for public policy and offers resources for survivors. So far I have raised $240! If you want to donate there is still plenty of time. The link to my fundraising page is in my signature or you can go here.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Yes, I know; but the French expression means dispassionate, objective, or cool under pressure, whereas in English we view cold-blooded as something/someone callous and cruel. I was trying to be funny!
I am discharged, as of a few hours ago today, and will continue to receive treatments as an outpatient... Beyond that, I am feeling a lot better than I was two weeks ago. I have more to write/say but for now I'm going to do some much needed clean up around my apartment and water some neglected plants.
Me too. "I'm glad you're back" just doesn't seem to cut it.
Glad to hear it!
There's nothing wrong with taking care of plants. I actually find it quite amazing when I bring them back when they were "droopy" for a while from my own neglect.
On that note, our indoor herb garden is actually growing things. Woot!
doomdragon6
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Seriously? That's the day another friend (IRL this time) OD'd and tried to, well, take an exit. He's fine now, supposedly, but they're keeping him a while.
Don't mean to derail, but it's related. His was a little more impulsive due to a girl, though, and less brought on by months of depression.
Yes, not only was today World Suicide Prevention Day, but this is actually suicide prevention week. I'm glad your friend is alive and will hopefully get help.
http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/10/harnessing-depression-one-ars-writers-journey/
I found this article informative and insightful, and timely.
I also figured this would be the best place to leave it where others can see it who might not otherwise happen across it.
I wholly endorse the reading of it.
--Patrick
I found this article informative and insightful, and timely.
I also figured this would be the best place to leave it where others can see it who might not otherwise happen across it.
I wholly endorse the reading of it.
--Patrick