Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.

Our ancestors used to get up before the sun and go to bed long after it went down. Used to walk up hill (Both ways!) in the snow and rain combined together. Worked thier fingers to the bone then to the palm and finally to the wrist. Slept six-in-a-single-bed with one blanket at the bottom of the lake and ate gravel for breakfast!!!(Monty python lol) It's true, ask anyone over 50.
But in all honesty we now live in a life that for the first time we have a new epidemic hurting us. Time to ourselves and not knowing what to do with it. for some this can cause anxiety of such freedom, yes i said freedom. i another post i quotes a great in Kirkegaard 'Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom'. think of it, for many the anxiety is caused by actually having to make a difficult choice and a lock up in fear of it. In depression it's that free time we reflect back on ourselves and through rose colored glasses criticize what we see. looking at life like a video game where we 'win' it and realize were no better off than we were before and how useless that last 3 days have been (never did that before).
For the first time in history has a society had actually TIME. Not hunting the mamoth and running away if your spear missed. Not toiling the fields so your family could eat at night. Not learning a valuable trade handed down from your mother or father to knit or sew, to repair a broken toy or fix a flat tire. And this same society is trying to find ways to give us MORE TIME by creating computers to do our jobs...but taking our income so we have even less with the more it gives us.
It is a society geared toward someone elses idea of success. a success that gives them more money to 'spend' on that free time. but for many of us here this society cannot understand us and the damage it causes by giving more time and less life. And we cry out to friends, family, and loved ones to help but they don't see blood or broken bone and don't understand the pain we feel. Our affliction then shackel us in a solitary confinment with all this time staring us in the face witha scowl.
But there is hope and it's behind the eyes reading this. For this 'time' is only a illusion and once we see the paper tiger has no teeth we can overcome. the cell door is shut but it cannot lock, you heros will have to show your strength to stand and walk out. I cannot tell you how to stand but that you CAN stand. so if you have time to spare start first of all by finding something to help you stand and show your time isn't free but precious
To all the true warriors -Love
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It's National Doughnut Day!Which three would you like? (never mind the calories, fat, or sugar content; just go with what you would pick if none of that mattered and whatever health issues you might have that would keep you from eating one in real life can be cast aside for this exercise as well... have at it!)
