Posted by capricorn on July 20, 2006, at 16:33:02
In reply to Re: ... with SOME normal people?, posted by laima on July 20, 2006, at 12:45:24
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> I know all of humanity goes through bad times and suffers- I just think there is a difference between understandable low moments in people who otherwise cope very well with life vs those prone to casually exclaiming "I'm Soooo depressed I missed that movie", etc., vs clinical, debilitating ongoing depression. People use that term, "depressed" casually sometimes.
I'm not talking about 'missing movies' or that kind of thing but the depression and emotional distress that can eat you up inside because you are so emotionally hyersensitive due to either emotional/physical or sexual abuse that you can be
plunged into a variety of intense negative emotions including despair/anxiety/paranoia and anger.Calm to the point of being an emotional zombie and like nothing is fully satisfying and
then something happens and your mood goes rapidly
in a different direction everything so intense in a dysphoric/negative way you wish your brain would explode and when the emotional overload/pain is to bad you are sinking deep into anxiety/fear driven
paranoia and rage and hopelessness and with it is so difficult to think straight ,your mind is all over the place.
At the time you think it won't go away but it's as intense as it's short lived andb the aftermath is feeling totally useless/totally worthless/like you
really are as bad or worse than all the negative things people have aimed at you.
It may not last as long in length as a bout of
'clinical depression' but swinging between being
emotionally zombified and emotionally too intense in a negative way is horrible and just as bad in it's own way.
poster:capricorn
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