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Mar 4, 2010 7:00 PM #553017
What do you reckon?

I can't go into any traumatic stories about how my life is really shitty, because honestly it it's not as if I've had any such things happen. I just feel my life in general is shitty and pointless (trying not to go all emo here). I feel as if when I'm around others I'm acting like a completely different person, putting on a fake smile. It seems to work. When people poke fun at me, as they do everyone else, I pretend it doesn't hurt my feelings at all. Anyway, when I get home, and am by myself, I find myself listening to some really depressing music and am generally in a really depressed mood. I can't stand my parents, so much so that I don't like eating with them and it irritates me doing so. When I'm not out with my friends I'm on the computer, trying not to think about things too much. And in bed, sometimes I cry if I think about it for too long, other times I just pity myself. I've thought about suicide, by my honest opinion is suicide is for pussies and is really pointless.

inb4 emo attention whore.

Srsly, what do you think? Will it pass or is it more serious? Any more info needed just ask...

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And before you ask why I'm asking on a stickfigure forum - I feel there's nobody else I can ask really. Don't have a girlfriend, I've told you how I feel about my family and I don't really want to tell my friends... not the sort of stuff we discuss.
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Mar 4, 2010 7:15 PM #553019
I've kinda had the same thing back in school, I could sound a bit weird but depending on your age it could be puberty? If not then maybe you could talk to a doctor?
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Mar 4, 2010 7:20 PM #553020
That's what I'm thinking (I'm 15). I just didn't think it could have this much of an effect... I mean my life isn't all too great, but I didn't think it would be bad enough to make me feel like this.
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Mar 4, 2010 7:20 PM #553021
I have sort of a similar state of mind.
#1 - Give up the depressive music. I know you enjoy listening to it, cause there's a masochist tendency you've got there, but believe me, depressive music won't help you. If you want to "get yourself numb" with it, you'd better give up already. Go for some funny rock every once in a while (try Tenacious D :P)
#2 - Keep yourself busy. Stop allowing yourself to think about anything else than what you have or like to do. Maybe you think it will feel like you're a robot with a set schedule and goal, but you'll find out you'll soon forget about your depression.
#3 - Keep being nice to people and pretending to have fun even if you're not. It will help even more if you get a close friend.
Hope I'm making sense here. Also, wow, I'm 15 too, and except the crying I have pretty much all your "symptoms".
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Mar 4, 2010 7:26 PM #553023
I feel like I have a lot to share with you, so please PM me. I'm in class and don't have the time to talk right now, but I would love to help you out and I think I can at least relate if not help you curb this depression before it gets as bad as mine did/is.
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Mar 4, 2010 7:27 PM #553024
Its weird how hormones work :S
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Mar 4, 2010 7:42 PM #553027
It will pass.
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Mar 4, 2010 7:51 PM #553031
This happened and passed for me a while ago, back when I was 13.
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Mar 4, 2010 7:59 PM #553032
I promise you you're going to look back in like 2 or 3 years ago and think "what the hell was I thinking", pretty much everyone goes through this and pretty much everyone hates what they used to be during those years.

Hawk is right. Don't listen to depressing music. What's the appeal? Find some new genres and some new groups. There's a torrent called "A Dream Upon Waking" that has a pretty good variety of indie rock and electronica, that's a good way to get started.

Hawk was also right, stay busy. I didn't do a whole lot in middle/early high school so I literally just learned how to do shit for the sake of learning it. Animating, photoshop, making music, playing guitar, playing piano, juggling, memorizing digits of Pi, whatever, I just always had some king of task that I was trying to master and it kept my mind active. I still do it now, I'm learning pen spinning and photography. It's hard to be depressed when you're constantly setting goals and achieving them.

But, either way, you need to acknowledge that you have nothing to be depressed about. If your friends poke fun at you, laugh and dish it back. If bullies poke fun at you, ignore them. You probably have a good life and unless your parents beat you or anything, there's no reason to hate their guts. Just on't do shit at the age of 15 that you're going to regret when you're 18
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Mar 4, 2010 8:36 PM #553037
Quote from Exilement
Hawk was also right, stay busy. I didn't do a whole lot in middle/early high school so I literally just learned how to do shit for the sake of learning it. Animating, photoshop, making music, playing guitar, playing piano, juggling, memorizing digits of Pi, whatever, I just always had some king of task that I was trying to master and it kept my mind active. I still do it now, I'm learning pen spinning and photography. It's hard to be depressed when you're constantly setting goals and achieving them.


This. Learn juggling. Most uplifting thing in the world. Once you can pull off a Boston Mess you need never be sad again.
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Mar 4, 2010 8:57 PM #553040
I can't tell if you're mocking me or not, but being "that guy who can juggle" is one of the least depressing things you can experience
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Mar 4, 2010 9:10 PM #553044
I wasn't mocking at all. I learned juggling properly three years ago, and one of the proudest moments of my life was suddenly getting the hang of the Boston Mess. Took me about an hour and a half, and I'd already got Mill's Mess down when I started.
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Mar 4, 2010 9:21 PM #553047
Quote from Exilement
I promise you you're going to look back in like 2 or 3 years ago and think "what the hell was I thinking", pretty much everyone goes through this and pretty much everyone hates what they used to be during those years.

Hawk is right. Don't listen to depressing music. What's the appeal? Find some new genres and some new groups. There's a torrent called "A Dream Upon Waking" that has a pretty good variety of indie rock and electronica, that's a good way to get started.

Hawk was also right, stay busy. I didn't do a whole lot in middle/early high school so I literally just learned how to do shit for the sake of learning it. Animating, photoshop, making music, playing guitar, playing piano, juggling, memorizing digits of Pi, whatever, I just always had some king of task that I was trying to master and it kept my mind active. I still do it now, I'm learning pen spinning and photography. It's hard to be depressed when you're constantly setting goals and achieving them.

But, either way, you need to acknowledge that you have nothing to be depressed about. If your friends poke fun at you, laugh and dish it back. If bullies poke fun at you, ignore them. You probably have a good life and unless your parents beat you or anything, there's no reason to hate their guts. Just don't do shit at the age of 15 that you're going to regret when you're 18

I agree, it's also true that eating habits can change your mood. Make sure your not eating anything blatantly bad for you, if it makes you feel bad remove it from your life, I once told my mom that I wouldn't be eating unhealthy food anymore. We had no healthy food in the house, it took her a while but she got it eventually. Now I don't touch anything that will make me sick or feel bad.

Like exilement said, happy music makes a happy person I recommend some more upbeat shit.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/57239
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/89792
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/15878

Anything like this, just sit down and make sure it's music that you can relax to and reflect and what not, don't be depressed.
Like he said, we all go through it just at different times, the key is to just not be depressed. Don't think thoughts that get you depressed, like; No one gets you, of course someone gets you, if your friends don't get you. You're probably better off getting new friends that do, if they flick shit at you practice up on your insults and show them who's boss, they're jokes so they aren't of hurtful intent, shrug it off.
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Mar 4, 2010 9:33 PM #553055
Also, try to sleep enough (7-8 hours). If you're tired, you're less lucid and think more about your problems. And don't keep yourself locked inside your house. Try to go out as much as possible.
Oh, and... (personal experience right here), if part of your depression is girl problems... well I don't really know what to do about it.
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Mar 4, 2010 9:34 PM #553057
First off, thanks for all the responses guys. I've taken everything in consideration and am going to start to think/act happy and let it pass.

Quote from Exilement

But, either way, you need to acknowledge that you have nothing to be depressed about.


But I feel that I do have things to be depressed about. I'm overweight, feel like I'm constantly being stared at, am constantly getting lower that expected grades (should be A's), get pushed and pushed for better results by my parents, who go overboard on EVERYTHING. Seriously, I had a detention for forgetting to do my homework and I had to go around my dads for a half-hour lecture on how I won't be able to be a psychologist if I keep forgetting my homework, despite the fact it was an honest excuse and has only happened once. I also feel that my friends aren't truly my friends, even though they are my friends (confusing right?). I feel like I'm just that guy that's there if I want to be, and nobody will try to get me to come out with them other than the one "are you coming out this weekend?" I occasionally get. Lastly my dad has said if I keep getting up late in the morning or my computer's not off by 10:30 (which it always is) he's going to take my computer to the ****ing tip, and contact my school and see if "4 hours a day on the computer is normal". To top this off today I stupidly walked out of my after-class 10 minute detention because it was wrongly given to me, which is going to result in a full detention, which will probably result in my dad taking my computer to the tip and contacting the school anyway. I regret it now but it was just one of those spare-of-the-moment things.
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