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pandora_spocks · 05-06-2003, 09:49 PM

Does anyone think they like being depressed like happiness just isn't possible so they prefer being sad? I sometimes think sadness is better because it's what I mostly feel. Am I brainwashing myself into thinking that? Like I said this is a weird, yet stupid question.

¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ · 05-06-2003, 09:51 PM

Sometimes I like being in a "slump" just to get away. Usually Im optimistic, but I wouldnt say I force/brainwash myself into being it...I just...am.

pandora_spocks · 05-06-2003, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Sometimes I like being in a "slump" just to get away. Usually Im optimistic, but I wouldnt say I force/brainwash myself into being it...I just...am.

Well, I've been depressed pretty much all of my life so maybe thats why I prefer to be sad because I don't hardly know what's like to even smile. I smile on occasion, but not too often. It's like it hurts to smile.

¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ · 05-06-2003, 10:02 PM

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Originally posted by pandora_spocks

Well, I've been depressed pretty much all of my life so maybe thats why I prefer to be sad because I don't hardly know what's like to even smile. I smile on occasion, but not too often. It's like it hurts to smile.

Aww.

Hurts me to smile too-- but thats usually because I smile a lot!

I dont usually let if be known when Im upset- I put up a front.

pandora_spocks · 05-06-2003, 10:07 PM

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Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤

Aww. Hurts me to smile too-- but thats usually because I smile a lot! I dont usually let if be known when Im upset- I put up a front.

I put up a front if I'm out in public, but sometimes it just seeps through. I feel like one of the Lisbon girls in The Virgin Suicides. Some thought the torture tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them: So full of flaws. I just keep thinking there's another world where I'm supposed to be now and I missed it because I got stuck in this one. Yeah, I know I'm

. I always feel like I wanna get out of my body and just leave it lying there and find someone more suitable. Does that make sense?

¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ · 05-06-2003, 10:16 PM

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Originally posted by pandora_spocks

I put up a front if I'm out in public, but sometimes it just seeps through. I feel like one of the Lisbon girls in The Virgin Suicides. Some thought the torture tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them: So full of flaws. I just keep thinking there's another world where I'm supposed to be now and I missed it because I got stuck in this one. Yeah, I know I'm . I always feel like I wanna get out of my body and just leave it lying there and find someone more suitable. Does that make sense?

Makes sense to me!! Im sure tons of people can relate.

*PinkLady* · 05-07-2003, 01:34 PM

I have a hard time being happy. Every time I am, something happens to make me feel like crap. I actually like to be sad sometimes.

dlemond · 05-07-2003, 02:02 PM

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Originally posted by pandora_spocks
Does anyone think they like being depressed like happiness just isn't possible so they prefer being sad? I sometimes think sadness is better because it's what I mostly feel. Am I brainwashing myself into thinking that? Like I said this is a weird, yet stupid question.

Here is what Norman Vincent Peale (author of The Power of Positive Thinking) says:

Many of us manufacture our own unhappinesss. Of course not all unhappinesss is self-created, for social conditions are responsible for not a few of our woes. Yet it is a fact that to a large extent by our thoughts and attitudes we distill out of the ingredients of life either happiness or unhappiness for ourselves.

Liza · 05-07-2003, 02:16 PM

I'm a pretty happy person, (after two and a half years of clinical depression I have a right to be!) now just remember that being happy doesn't mean you have to be morning-person-weather-girl-HAPPY - it just means trying to maintain a positive outlook. I had to go through 2 years of therapy to stop being depressed - But since then I really have had a postive attitude and just try to look forward to all that's to come. You'd be surprised just how relaxing it can be.

smoothe · 05-07-2003, 02:49 PM

I'm always happy I hate to see other people down or be put down depression might be some people's way of alerting everyone that life now of days is miserable to be apart of!Mostly I'm happy though the only thing that depresses me are funerals and the news other than that I'm kool

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Kay Scarpetta · 05-07-2003, 03:45 PM

I'm SO mixed up, it's not even funny. For half the year, I was constantly depressed. Like, never ever ever happy. Clinical Depression. For the next half, I was half the time happy, half the time depressed again, with horrible mood swings. Now, it's both of them just mixed together.

I'm always sad. When something good happens, I'll be "happy", yet it feels like it's only a mask. I can still feel the depression me.

dawsongirl · 05-07-2003, 06:19 PM

I wouldn't go back to feeling depressed for anything. I much prefer being happy.

Faith · 05-08-2003, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by jimmiegirl48
I have a hard time being happy. Every time I am, something happens to make me feel like crap. I actually like to be sad sometimes.

That's exactly what it is like for me. Also, sometimes I think that I am so used to being sad/depressed that I have forgotten what happy feels like.

DarleneIllyria · 05-08-2003, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by Miss Karly

I'm always sad. When something good happens, I'll be "happy", yet it feels like it's only a mask. I can still feel the depression me.

That is basically my answer. Exactly my answer.

pandora_spocks · 05-08-2003, 09:10 PM

I constantly feel like I'm not good enough for anyone including myself. I think I'm just in love with my sadness because I seem to always bring myself down no matter how happy I try to be.

05-06-2003, 09:49 PM	#1
pandora_spocks Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: Nov 30, 2002 Posts: 21,532	Weird and stupid question.. Does anyone think they like being depressed like happiness just isn't possible so they prefer being sad? I sometimes think sadness is better because it's what I mostly feel. Am I brainwashing myself into thinking that? Like I said this is a weird, yet stupid question.

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05-07-2003, 03:45 PM	#11
Kay Scarpetta Defy Gravity 8.26.05 Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 04, 2001 Location: La Vie Boheme Posts: 28,013	I'm SO mixed up, it's not even funny. For half the year, I was constantly depressed. Like, never ever ever happy. Clinical Depression. For the next half, I was half the time happy, half the time depressed again, with horrible mood swings. Now, it's both of them just mixed together. I'm always sad. When something good happens, I'll be "happy", yet it feels like it's only a mask. I can still feel the depression me.
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05-07-2003, 01:34 PM	#7
PinkLady Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 04, 2002 Posts: 7,457	I have a hard time being happy. Every time I am, something happens to make me feel like crap. I actually like to be sad sometimes.

05-07-2003, 02:16 PM	#9
Liza BestYearsofOurLives Forum Veteran Join Date: Apr 24, 2001 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 6,537	I'm a pretty happy person, (after two and a half years of clinical depression I have a right to be!) now just remember that being happy doesn't mean you have to be morning-person-weather-girl-HAPPY - it just means trying to maintain a positive outlook. I had to go through 2 years of therapy to stop being depressed - But since then I really have had a postive attitude and just try to look forward to all that's to come. You'd be surprised just how relaxing it can be.

05-07-2003, 06:19 PM	#12
dawsongirl Member Forum Icon Join Date: Jan 04, 2001 Posts: 53,140	I wouldn't go back to feeling depressed for anything. I much prefer being happy.

05-08-2003, 09:10 PM	#15
pandora_spocks Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: Nov 30, 2002 Posts: 21,532	I constantly feel like I'm not good enough for anyone including myself. I think I'm just in love with my sadness because I seem to always bring myself down no matter how happy I try to be.