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Sadness. It is real. If you have Dysthymia, it's a constant state of being. . . It never leaves you. I'd really like to see what reality is like, you know, check out how it feels to NOT be sad all the freaking time. . . This is just mean. I mean come on, somebody . . . God, throw me a bone! I'm a cool guy, I do good things. OK, , , enough of this shit, it...

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Again, . . . stupid familiar meandering sadness
- what a wonderlessl juxtaposition of cognition
Man, this last one was for shit, too many mind fucks all too close together.

I know,
- that some of you guys would like to help me but I'm not putting out much information about any of it.
I think it has come back to bite me in the ass so many times before, in my past life . . . before I crashed and burned.
damn, that was in 1999!
- almost a decade of isolation.

Maybe I'm too affraid of reliving those past episodes, I often get bummed by the silliest things, like, it can take me down in an instant by watching a freaking commercial with something in those 30 seconds, and it just might be a persons comment or inflection about who knows what, and I flash back to some time and place that wasn't fun at all and . . I relive it sometimes more than once and I freaking hate that, stupid little mind fucks that pop in in and out of my streaming wandering mind.

Does anyone ever get hit with sadness by just looking at a freaking commercial?
and dwell on it until you run into a wall or spill something on your pants?

Or is it me. . . . just me? ! ?
-Boy, that would suck.
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No, not just you, I do this too. It could be a song, or something on television, something I read, something I hear someone say, a place that looks familiar, or just anything. It is rather strange how it happens or why it happens, the things that pop into my head or the thoughts that make me sad. I don't understand it but I wish I had some advice for you, or wish you had some for us who do this. You definitely are not alone in this one, or even reliving things from your past. Just try to hang in there anyway or however you can to take it all as it comes and to keep on, keeping on.
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me too. Not commercials since I was pregnant, but like you beth a song a statement or the way someone says something. and dwelling...my psych calls it rumenating or perseverating. She wants me to try to stop myself like clapping my hands. Sounds weird. I don't know how to think differently. We are here, lean away.
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Hel, I got a quick rush of sadness just yesterday after stepping into a starbucks. I looked at the gingerbread men and they were all too perfect. I looked at this master race of machine-cut baked abominations with their perfectly placed candy eyes and callously flawless icing smiles and thought back the English bakeries of my youth and how much more genuine everything felt in comparison. Trivial, but it's strange what can set a person off.
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ditto, ditto & ditto. The part that is hardest for me is not knowing if/why something will affect me that way. It is usually something simple that most people wouldn't even pay attention to -- like a commercial or even gingerbread men at Starbucks.

Maybe it's just me, but... I do try to pay attention to when these things occur, and my best clue that this might happen seems to be that I am feeling "removed" from things but still hyper-aware/observant of everything going on around me that day. Not 100% or even sure this really helps, but knowing that the hit may be coming can't hurt.