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Re: Depressed
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2008, 06:30:51 PM »
Note that a gently depressed frog may be the chance of a jumping-off !
 

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Re: Depressed
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2008, 07:53:35 PM »
let's all sing Kumbaya!!!

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Re: Depressed
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2008, 08:11:14 PM »
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cecilia wrote:
let's all sing Kumbaya!!!

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Looking at Wikipedia, the text shouldn't be much of a problem.
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2008, 08:33:34 PM »
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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.
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2008, 09:01:24 PM »
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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.

I can definitely relate to that. For me the change from a job I hated to a course I love, along with a little inspiration and a lot of creative advice (ta Matt ;-)) was just the change I needed to get some creativity back. Maybe you need to make a list of all the things which are getting you down or stressing you out, prioritise them and then deal with them one at a time.

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Re: Depressed
« Reply #19 on: March 07, 2008, 09:52:01 PM »
go on a vacation far away for a few weeks. that should help...
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2008, 01:57:01 AM »
@Karlos

I dropped you an email mate, I must say life isn't being particularily kind to me at the moment, but I won't go into it here. Hope you cheer up real soon :-)
 

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Re: Depressed
« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2008, 03:42:12 PM »
oh great...

Karlos is having a rough time, Odin's been reduced to eating some kind of gigantic, hideous mold-growth, and Cecilia is suddenly thinking Kumbaya is something that we can enjoy....

srsly, my world is being twisted inside out as we speak.



The only thing I can suggest is that in my experience when I'm having a rough time of it, I usually need a perspective change (not that attaining one can be particularly easy much of the time)...but then again I like cruel and bizarre social engineering games...

for example, I have a friend who asked her mother what she wanted to do for her 70th birthday...and of all the things her mother could have picked, she went with "I wanna' go to Disneyworld".  

My friend, in her late twenties was rather nonplussed about this idea to say the least.

I gave her the following advice...

"You need to make a game out of your situation...sometimes that game is called How many children can I make cry while waiting in line for rides that nobody wants to be on?  or can I pretend to be retarded and not have to wait for anything or the like...but in this case I have a particular suggestion of a game for you...

it's called "I'm going to f*ck Tigger!"

Make that your goal for the entire week...send me photos and we'll have a good laugh about it.


Anyway, that's about all I got...
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2008, 04:08:23 PM »
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The only thing I can suggest is that in my experience when I'm having a rough time of it, I usually need a perspective change (not that attaining one can be particularly easy much of the time)...but then again I like cruel and bizarre social engineering games...
How about quitting a project 'out of the blue', and with that, dropping the project-group as a stone, because you're the only one in the group who has in-depth technical knowledge?
That's what I did this week. How's that about a cruel and bizarre social engineering game?
The backgrounds of the other students of the project group were completely irrelevant to the subject. I didn't have any influence on how the project group was formed in the first place. Ah well, maybe I myself was being subjected to a rather cruel social engineering game... :lol:
Anyway, continuously explaining why this or that can or can't be done, the impossibility to answer in a nuanced way (because they won't understand it) and the impossibility of getting the necessary nuanced information from them, took it's toll last weekend.

I can be an asshole, yes. But only when people demand impossible things from me.

But I don't like it being an asshole. Far from it. :cry:
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2008, 04:19:33 PM »
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and Cecilia is suddenly thinking Kumbaya is something that we can enjoy....
Well, maybe we can enjoy that... in a certain sense... in a certain dedicated thread :-D
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2008, 04:27:47 AM »
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oh great...

Karlos is having a rough time, Odin's been reduced to eating some kind of gigantic, hideous mold-growth, and Cecilia is suddenly thinking Kumbaya is something that we can enjoy....

srsly, my world is being twisted inside out as we speak.

Heh, :-D. Ta, that made me grin after a disastrous and depressing night out.

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Re: Depressed
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2008, 06:23:28 PM »
the no CARB diet- no Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld or Bush.
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2008, 07:28:38 PM »
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cecilia wrote:
tell me this doesn't make you laugh!
Oh damn that song...
Friends of me at a Scouting camp were singing this very loudly when drunk, at 5am, while I tried to sleep. A grumpy me with two buckets of water thrown over them made it stop veeeery quickly :lol:
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2008, 12:13:18 PM »
/me gives Karlos some booze to drown the sorrows with.

I know the feeling, Dude. Unfortunately I can't think of any way of feeling better, besides copious ammounts of alcohol (which in my case helped, but probably isn't a very good idea), and online computer games.
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Re: Depressed
« Reply #28 on: March 12, 2008, 12:40:26 PM »
Not sure karlos would know what to do with alcohol!

-Edit- Clean some electrial equipment perhaps... though I doubt a nice spicy Shiraz is good for that...

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Re: Depressed
« Reply #29 from previous page: March 12, 2008, 02:12:31 PM »
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/me gives Karlos some booze to drown the sorrows with.

I think that with Karlos being a muslim and all that, his faith forbids the use of alcohol. Or at least does not encourage its use, given that he's an UK resident and all that :).

But depressions are not funny, and the means to alleviate them differ from person to person. Some respond very well to medicine; others can manage on their own with an engrossing hobby. Nevertheless, I don't think hiding your current mental state is such a good idea, mate. Perhaps you point out to your superiors that you are really stretching yourself dangerously close to breaking point, and tentatively visit a MD before you truly collapse. You won't do anyone a favour doing that, least of all yourself!
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