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-- Posted by paganinio at 8:55 am on April 5, 2008

I was quite depressed today, "feel hopeless and sad and stop feeling pleasure from almost everything I do", and "Thinking often about death or suicide."
Then I discovered the one and only way to treat it:
Post on the forums!
It may have been one of the happiest hours in my life, because this forum is so much fun.

The problem is: now I can't stop. I have homework and a job to do, and I don't have much time left. But if I stop posting on LiveWire, I'm afraid I'll be depressed again. I don't want my depression to get worse. At least it's not getting worse now, while I'm still on the forums.

It's almost midnight in my area. I will go to sleep soon, and what will happen tomorrow? Should I come back to the forum first thing in the morning? But that will make it unstoppable again.

It's similar to that Jimi Hendrix song:


Will I live tomorrow?
Well I just can't say.
But I know for sure
I Don't Live Today.


And Jimi Hendrix was dead soon after that. I don't wanna be him.

Sure, homework and job are nothing compared to depression. I think I have my priorities right. But sooner or later I will need to carry on in my life. I don't live today, and I probably won't live tomorrow, but I WILL continue to live my life on some day.


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