Depressed people...

[Benjamin K]

Just had a friend try and delibrately overdose on Mersyndol (A painkiller jacked on Codeine), what the hell is wrong with teenage girls these days?

Then her dumb as shit friend (Who made her depressed in the first place) is trying to make me feel bad for telling her what she done was stupid as fark and get to the hospital, where's the logic in that anyone?

In her dumb slut friends exact words "Why would you tell her to tell her parents and get to the hospital, that's the last place she wants to be if she done it delibrately" Maybe because if she doesn't she'll be dead in a few hours you dumb ****!

So to teenage girls it's not a stupid thing to smash down so many codeine based painkillers till you feel dizzy and have muscle twitches?

Apparently the hard life of been a girl is so hard it seems to be considered a not so stupid thing to get jacked up on an easily fatal painkiller....

[social]

Welcome to the Wasteful world of teenage choices. Theres not much you can do man, let her know your there and thats pretty much it, she'l either come to terms or wont, its that basic. Theres only so much other people can do. Take away the friend, u take away the reason which would leave you without a depressed girl....so shoot the friend and shell be fine

[VrWagz1]

having had a few people around me that get depressed like that i can understand the frustration of the situation. Unfortunatly you can talk to them and it all seems to be good and then 5 minutes later everything turns to shitzle again. If they are clinically diagnosed as depressed then all you can do is your best, even though you can get hammered for it somtimes.

[greenfoam]

Lots of people get depressed as teenagers, pretty normal. A girl in my class back in school ate a packet of asprin and end up passing out in the library, she had a fun rest of the day in hospital with a tube down her guts. I used to get a bit depressed, even to this day I don't own any rope (never have) as I don't really trust myself to own rope

[StockoVRWagz]

My wife suffers from really bad post natal depression. Like all the non attention seekers, she got help and is on lots of anti depression medication.

[ScoHar]

Yea I lived with a chick when I was a teenager just friends, she tried OD'ing heard a bang and crash went upstairs she was having a fit on the floor, sucked just rang an ambulance got it sorted moved out, never seen her again.

[nemesis_adrasteia]

I personally think killing yourself is one of the most selfish things you can do, that girl that's ****in talkin smack should be shot **** her

[Boonz]

i bet if you went round to every girl in any high school, you would find that about one in every five girls have some sort of depression problem, usually starts cos they decide that they like guys.... and dont know when to slow down or not have a root every weekend with someone different, they cop alot of shit from other girls and starts this depression thingy goin.... end of the day most people end up in the same place when they leave school and is no better than the person they were handing the shit out too...

i rekon it was half the reason why i left school after year 11 cos i couldnt put up wit the girls shit anymore

[Bax]

I really wish there was a better way to treat depression though.

Over the past two years I've had 3-4 people close to me diagnosed with depression. No it's not me - I think.

But the medication effects them differently. One it makes insanely moody, constant mood swings, but generally he's got things under control (as far as I know) and he's fairly stable with his moods now that he'd gotten used to it all.

The other, they have their highs during the day, when they're surrounded by everyone. But as soon as they get home and it's time to go to bed, they're coming down off their high and they get just as depressed or more.

And how did one of them get diagnosed? With a quiz. A quiz that anyone can take, it's online and about 12 questions I think. Her GP recommended it because she wasn't feeling great - and next minute she's on pills and has 'depression'

It just doesn't seem to make sense. One of the guys I know that's on meds and is responding the best out of all of them is getting check ups with a psychologist as well. And that to me seems to be doing more then anything else.

It's pretty sad how some people get. And as much as I think suicide is one of the most selfish cowardly options available. But now having an insight to how they feel - makes it even sadder that they think it's the only option. But anyway.

[VL_5SPEED]

Codeine is an opiate. Codeine is the hillbilly version of heroin because its cheap. If she was smart she would of extracted the codeine from the pills because its simple. I thought they made it you have to have a prescription to purchase codeine based pills?

[hsvpunk]

You know suicide isn't painless
When you leave everyone in pain

[minux]

And how did one of them get diagnosed? With a quiz. A quiz that anyone can take, it's online and about 12 questions I think. Her GP recommended it because she wasn't feeling great - and next minute she's on pills and has 'depression'

Depression is much like ADD or whatever they call it these days. Over diagnosed and over prescribed. It seems doctors think that being sad is depression, much like lack of discipline = ADD.

Most people who claim to have depression just need a cup of concrete.

[Tom_1569]

Attempting suicide is just for attention, seriously how ****ing hard is it to kill yourself if you really want to do it.
If you really want to suicide you are a truly selfish prick, look how many people are out there battling for there lives with cancer and other diseases, yet people think its ok to go and end theirs, its disgusting.

I've known people who have suicided, I didn't go to there funeral cause I go to a funeral to pay respect to someone, i cant pay respect to someone so selfish and disgraceful.

Sure people get depressed, but this whole "emo scene" I see more and more teenagers depressed about nothing, it just seems to be the cool thing and helps them fit in if they act depressed. Ill admit I will get depressed about stuff, but I get over it and move on, you cant get anywhere if your negative and depressed and there's always a brighter side to everything.

[Julie]

I couldn't agree more minux! I have a family member who has been diagnosed with depression. Well no shit, if I sat around in my room playing warcraft, all day and night, had no job and no life I'd be ****ing depressed too. Most people don't need to be medicated to treat depression they just need to take a good look at themselves and the life they live and makes the changes necessary to make them feel happy in life.

[hsvpunk]

lol warcraft.... so maybe the guy i work with has depression.. as that all he seems to do when he gets home from work, lol.

[minux]

Attempting suicide is just for attention, seriously how ****ing hard is it to kill yourself if you really want to do it.
If you really want to suicide you are a truly selfish prick, look how many people are out there battling for there lives with cancer and other diseases, yet people think its ok to go and end theirs, its disgusting.

I've known people who have suicided, I didn't go to there funeral cause I go to a funeral to pay respect to someone, i cant pay respect to someone so selfish and disgraceful.

Sure people get depressed, but this whole "emo scene" I see more and more teenagers depressed about nothing, it just seems to be the cool thing and helps them fit in if they act depressed. Ill admit I will get depressed about stuff, but I get over it and move on, you cant get anywhere if your negative and depressed and there's always a brighter side to everything.

I think it is unfair to dump all suiciders into the same basket...

I had a very very close friend kill himself. He was one of the only guys I have ever trusted with my life and that is literally speaking. After poor debrief from the Army combined with PTSD he committed 4 armed robberies...when he finally woke up to himself after these robberies he could no longer live with himself after what he had put those people though and turned the gun he used on himself. With no family, no friends around and piss poor support from the government he felt it was his only option. So damned sad that government does not give a **** about it's own troops.

So no, there is not always a brighter side to everything for everyone.

[Jecs]

You know suicide isn't painless
When you leave everyone in pain

tuff quote

[AirStrike]

Attempted suicide is just a cry for attention, in this day and age it really isn't hard to kill yourself.

[Tom_1569]

I think it is unfair to dump all suiciders into the same basket...

I had a very very close friend kill himself. He was one of the only guys I have ever trusted with my life and that is literally speaking. After poor debrief from the Army combined with PTSD he committed 4 armed robberies...when he finally woke up to himself after these robberies he could no longer live with himself after what he had put those people though and turned the gun he used on himself. With no family, no friends around and piss poor support from the government he felt it was his only option. So damned sad that government does not give a **** about it's own troops.

So no, there is not always a brighter side to everything for everyone.

First sorry to hear about that.
I do agree, you cant put them all in the same basket, first post didnt come across like that. I only knew two people who have suicided personelly and they were both young, and personelly dont think it was neccasary and was just selfish and maybe immature, but either way its a waste of a life especially when people are fighting for there lives every day.

[Jecs]

after my next door neighbor found out his wife was having an affair and she was taking the house and the kids he commit suicide.. nothing else to live for, so threw a rope over the shed truss and ended it

[hsvpunk]

tuff quote

thank you

[Tsunamix]

I am Depressed.

I am also treated, and managing it, quite well.

The most important thing to realise is that true depression is (usually) a chemical imbalance. Not a disease, but a treatable condition, like acne.

The second thing to realise is that most depressives don't know thet they are depressed. The problem with depression is that "Normal" for a depressive, is way 'down' for a normal person.

You best action is to grab the depressive and say 'mate - you look like your suffering from a seratonin imbalance. Ive seen that before. Lets get you in to see a quack'.

I found out I was depressed because I dated a girl who had walk away from a depressive before. She said your depressed, go and see a quack. I thought it was a joke. But being a reasonably intelligent guy, I did my own research first - expecting her to be wrong. She wasn't.

Now I'm good.

[Tsunamix]

By the way - true depression onsets at the end of puberty. It's a chemical imblanace where seratonin in the brain, gets reabsorbed by the body too rapidly. Seratonin is one of the chemicals that carries electrical signals across the joins between neurons in the brain.

Treatment involves administering Seratonin reabsorption inhibitors (SnRI's) usually in tablet form.

In effect, a depressive gets less 'up' from positive events. restoring the uplift gives you a more positive outlook on life. I speak from experience.

If your a teenager I personally doubt you can be truly depressed.

[eroled]

Some people have a very good reason to be depressed for so many reasons, but for the other 95% of attention seekers just need to build a bridge and NOT jump off it ,get to the other side and have a big cup of hardin the **** up.

[Zuicider]

Depression is much like ADD or whatever they call it these days. Over diagnosed and over prescribed. It seems doctors think that being sad is depression, much like lack of discipline = ADD.

Most people who claim to have depression just need a cup of concrete.

most people cant afford that cup these days either. there is more to being diagnosed with depression than you would think. i went to the doc for a depression plan , half priced shrink visits (around 140 an hour). the doc wrote up a possible what it could be letter to the clinical shrink who then in turn went about pulling me apart .
and i agree with the over prescribed part. was on xanax didnt do anything, then another that wiped me out and the last one was 75mg of efexor. it has to be to do with the fact people have different reactions to the drugs. i was put on efexor to increase my endorphines as i was tired all the time, no energry and lacking motivation in all parts of life.
only someone on their high horse would compare add and depression as both extremes of each other.