Depressed

[Karlos]

Life seems to have contracted into an endless cycle of things I can do without. Long hours, no free time and the accumulated stress from a list of problems/worries that I can't even be bothered to enumerate, not even in a place as familiar as this.

I seem to have two emotional states these days:

1) feeling flat/unfazed
2) feeling miserable/frustrated

For the most part I do a great job of concealing, either that or nobody has really noticed. Don't get me wrong, I have good days but they seem to be the minority now.

Anyway, that's that off my chest.

Somehow I don't feel any better though :/

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:
hey Karlos... a few of us have noticed your lack of Amiga commitment recently :-)

Not half as much as my amiga(s) have I've pretty much lost all enthusiasm for doing anything creative in the time I do get to myself, principally because I'm far to knackered by then to do anything but vegetate or sleep.

[Karlos]

@Bloodline

Happy belated birthday. Turned 33 myself just over a month ago :-)

Today I feel about 73, but that's probably down to having a bit of a cold.

@All

Thanks for the jollies and advice. I'm not having much luck shaking out of the malaise just yet, but I'm working on it. I guess I'm just growing into a miserable old fart.

Anyway, time to take the old black dog for a walk...

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

I hope that isn't a euphemism...

I believe having/walking/etc a 'black dog' is a euphemism for depression ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeys_with_the_Black_Dog

[Karlos]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

As if games ever mattered...

I dunno, I find Tiberium Wars is pretty good at distracting me from things when I start to get stuck in the depressive-thinking cycle.

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:
My new contact lenses are 69% water...

They'll be almost indistinguishable from the rest of you then :lol:

[Karlos]

From the movie "how to cheat at curling"...

[Karlos]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Karlos wrote:
From the movie "how to cheat at curling"...

Eh?

The scene in which the protagonist is seen dragging the large weight across the frozen ice made me think of a comical way one could cheat at "Curling" (possibly one of the most pointless sports ever conceived in the history of humankind)

[Karlos]

I think I may saunter off for a bit of C&C3...