Posted by deniseuk190466 on August 22, 2006, at 11:22:38
In reply to Re: Is Depression a choice?, posted by ciaolavida on August 21, 2006, at 20:37:49
I couldn't agree more with what Maxine said and I really hate it when people (and they've said it to me in the past) say that you choose to be the state you are in.
I have a friend who likes to think he's the bloody Dhali Lama tells me that you choose to be in the state you are in.
This really pisses me off because I do everything I can to try and get out of the state I am in, excersising, thinking happy comforting thoughts, eating sensibly, working, smiling when I don't feel like it etc etc and just sitting back and accepting the way I feel but I still feel crap and depressed and apathetic.
This guy I know (the Dhali Lama wannabe) gorges on chocolate, fatty foods and spends most of his time playing computer games, reading books, watching films and never trying to do anything he doesn't want to do. I have nothing against the way he lives his life and even have some admiration for it but I really resent this idea of his that I choose to be the way I am when he himself has never suffered from depression and has no idea what it is like.
Oh how I wish and I know this is wrong that somebody would invent a depression inducer and then I'd use it on him for at least a year until he took back all his stupid opinions.
Denise
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