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The evidence is againt you. Eventually, you will feel better and the only way to begin the repair is to find something worth living for and holding onto it for your dear life. I don't need to have suffered from depression to know this.

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you cannot start repair when you dont know where the damage starts. also, repair doesnt guarantee happiness. it guarantees for you to be a little less broken. also, depression is a chemical imbalance. sometimes drugs work, other times not. a person can have a wonderful life. great family, great job, wonderful friends, no money problems, enough to satisfy and still challenge them, and they could want to die. CHEMICAL IMBALANCE. thats not a choice. it just happens. out of your control.

** and i know what i have to live for. i just find no joy in it. none at all. it is all blank and empty. the eventually means nothing. life is now, here, the present. you dont life for the future, you live for now. otherwise you aren't living. you are waiting for what will never come.

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stone eyes cant shed tears

"Shit happens...mostly to me, so don't worry!"

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The only mystery in life
is why you're not doing more now
instead of waiting for later
Do you really think you'll get another chance?

(Edited by StonedInCourt at 12:18 am on May 24, 2006)

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if I used my love powers, to turn the middle east to ash, then melt
that ash and condense it, then mix it with some really crazy gas and
condense it until it glowed orange, my love would be the size of that
gigantic condensed glowing ball

Breakups, arguments, getting fired divorces are not good things by any standards but comparitively there are much worse things in life  than many others deal with. If you have access to a computer and can read this post, the chances are you are in the top 5% of the worlds most affluential people. If we choose to let things really get to us then they will. Im not saying we should ignore these issues, although many of them may turn out to be trivial, but if we can look at the bright side of things and not take life for granted then we will do alot better.

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where has the world come to when we think Elvis and Tupac
are alive and God is dead?

I like to make other people happy, and the i feel good too.  Like when i get to school in the morning, i say hello to all my teachers that i see, and anyone i know as well.  It makes me happy when people smile, because then i smile.

so yeah, happiness is a choice.  Although, i've never been depressed, so i wouldn't know about that.  But for me, it's a choice.

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4 out of every 3 people have trouble with fractions.

In a sense happiness is a choice, as you can chemically alter your brain to produce 'happiness', and such chemical manipulation is a big part of mental health departments.

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¡Vive la República de Tejas! ¡Libertad de los Estados Unidos de América! ¡Recuerden el Liberty y lo que los zionistas le hicieron!

2)WHEN YOU DONT ACCEPT THINGS AS IT IS YOU WILL BE UNHAPPY.

3)WHEN YOU ACCEPT THE WAY YOU ARE,OTHERS ARE AND EVERYTHING IS YOU NEVER BE SAD

NOT TO EXPECT ANYTHING DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE IDLE.WITH WHATEVER YOU HAVE,WHICHEVER WAY YOU HAVE DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO REACH YOUR GOAL.YOU NEED TO BE FRESH EVERY MOMENT,THAT IS,WITHOUT EXPECTATIONS.

It is your choice when you notice that you've been crying non-stop for 2 weeks and you need help - its your responsibility to seek a counsellor.  Its your choice when you procratinate and you don't finish your essays on time or that you fail the whole year.

In life, there are causes and effects.  If you make positive causes, then you'll see positive effects.  And it does not help if you try to make yourself think positively.  You have to actively do things to improve your attitude and approach to life.

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I'm a minger, you're a minger too.
So come on minger, I want to mingle with you

Happiness cannot be a personal choice but must be affected by extraneous factors.  If happiness were purely a choice, everyone would be happy, because happiness > sadness.

when you wake up one day feeling really depressed (this happens to girls a lot more due to PMS), you haven't chosen to feel that way, and nothing helps, not even counting every single good thing in your life.  The best thing to do is to endure it and to face it rather than try to pretend you're fine.

When you're feeling depressed there are practical things you can do to make it slightly better - like calling the counsellor to make an appointment (even though you can't see them immediately, you get the sense that at least you've done something about it so you don't feel helpless).

The best thing to do is to cry and talk to people.  That works a treat, but there are rarely people i can talk to about my deepest insecurities, I can only complain on superficial things like 'i've had a crap day, the weather's getting me down'...

And Abs, depression is a chemical reaction, but chemically altering your brain, ie taking anti-depressants is not the solution.  Just because its a chemical symptom does not mean the solution is to chemically enhance ourselves.  It needs to be treated in a holistic way - depression is usually brought about by our brain's reaction to external things.  To an extent, the depressed person needs to let depression take its course and then talk to someone and if worse comes to worst, to seek medication.  Its not good to tamper with the brain's natural healing process.

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I'm a minger, you're a minger too.
So come on minger, I want to mingle with you