Posted by kid_A on July 11, 2001, at 16:17:33
In reply to Re: Am I really depressed?, posted by Edward on July 11, 2001, at 15:26:08
> I'm not being argumentative, but I am a day patient at a mental hospital (only because I dropped out of school), and I know many people there who don't have depression and have tried to kill themselves.
Perhaps your getting caught up on words, I don't really think it matters what you call it, but thoughts of suicide, and specificly actions taken because of those thoughts are not what we would hope for in a healthy person. Our species would not get that far if it were 'normal' to always have suicidal tendencies and the will to act upon them...
Do you want to be happier than you are? Do you want to not feel like nothing matters? Maybe you arent sad about a specfic thing so you dont feel like you are suffering from depression. Whatever you would like to call it, you do seem to have some traits that would qualify you as a possible candidate...
It took me a long time to realise, especially in the end, but its a good thing to have dreams and goals and aspiriations, no matter how unlikely... those are things that drive us forward rather than keeping us mired in our own self-absorbed state of malaise...
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