Women who would be interesting but for the taxing nature of their arguments.
I’d say to count me in with the sociopathic, puppy kicking, teabagging, being totally closed hearted in this holiday season (which is ridiculous. Is it better to be cruel during the non holidays? How about certain holidays? Can I be mean near arbor day?) people who have zero sympathy for those who start attention seeking threads only to piss all over those offering advice/warm thoughts, but that thread was a big pile of troll.
Disagreeing with someone else. I got steamed after reading sentiments that sympathy is weakness and wanted to put my two cents in too.
Been depressed most of my life -on and off medication. Have a sister and aunt who have been hospitalized for it. More people in my family die of suicide than cancer or heart disease (alcholism ranks a strong second - related to the depression).
And I concur. More depressed people need to be hit over the head with a brick, told to buck up - and part of bucking up is to get yourself into the psychiatrist, into therapy, onto medication.
If you are depressed this IS treatable - but you have to take some responsibility for yourself. If you aren’t, your a troll.
Megadittos.
My old friend and housemate went through a period of deep depression, and is actually now designated permanently disabled/unable to work by the VA. I would bang on his door of a Saturday morn and say “Get Up T we’re going to breakfast.” And he would go “caaaannnn’t” and I would say “GET THE FUCK UP T, we’re going to breakfast and you’re coming” and he would say “nooooooooo” and I would say “QUIT WHINING AND COME TO BREAKFAST, T. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FUCKING SIT THERE.”
And after a few rounds of this he would drag himself out of bed, take a shower and and experience an hour of human company and diner pancakes, and thank me for it after.
Maybe I should have let him wallow, left without him, never made him do something he didn’t wanna. According to some of y’all there’s nothing worse than preventing a depressed person from wallowing in their misery.
BTW, there s nothing bigoted about saying that persistent whiners who also happen to be depressed are incredibly annoying. You can sympathize with a person all you like without enjoying their behavior. Kind of like the guy in the thread who constantly picks at his body and loudly eats the results in the workplace. He obviously has a mental problem… and its fucking annoying.
It’s been mentioned before, but the point keeps getting lost in this pitting. The OP from the original thread said that he IS seeing a doctor.
I agree that the SDMB is not a good place to look for support for mental health issues, in fact it is a particularly bad place to look, as evidenced by this thread. Yes, the OP would be better off seeking support from a depression-specific internet forum, or a real-world depression support group.
But what is the point of piling on to call his thread bullshit and histrionic and annoying? You don’t have to listen to him - if you don’t like his thread, just stop reading it - there is no reason to pit a depressed person who is ill.
I was being sarcastic.
Yes there is, the lulz dammit, sadists deserve their lulz!
Not on the board. DEFINITELY in MPSIMS.
With a metric like that, what’s the point of pitting anyone on this board?
Yeah, this is the Pit. No one can stop you from posting. Blah blah blah, yada yada yada.
You posted, showed us how tough you are, reiterated how you don’t give a fuck.
We’re all duly impressed.
There are a lot of things, and plenty of people that I don’t give a damn about too. That may mean I’m an asshole too. At least I try not to advertise it or brag about it.
Yawn. You posted; you showed us how caring you are, and emphasized how much we all (meaning you and the “community”) don’t want none of that behavior again in these here parts, no sir.
Please don’t include me in your little sarcasm laden invocation of the consensus to help carry your weak ass “If you can’t say anything nice…” bullshit.
Gee, you’re one tough sumbitch, aren’t you.
Check out the last (bolded) part of what I wrote - the comment is specific to this pitting. It’s not OK to pit a depressed person who is ill. He has a disease that can impair judgment. He’s not a fair target for pitting. Also, he is seeking treatment from a doctor, so it’s incorrect to say that he isn’t doing anything about his illness.
Unless you believe he is not ill, and is trolling. I know this is hard to believe, but sometimes on the Internet, people don’t tell the truth. Some people give you particular cause to believe they are not on the level. Sometimes, these people get pitted for their attention whoring.
Question: is a person immune from criticism simply because they said they were ill? Do you believe everything people tell you on the internet without even pausing to question whether you’re being used?
No. He’s a keyboard commando with a big mouth. It’s easy to be a dick when you don’t have any consequences.
I know this is hard to believe, but there’s constructive criticism and there’s being an asshole. OP was being an asshole. Chessic was being an asshole.
Where in there did you say that the OP was a troll?
I notice you didn’t answer the question you quoted.
I don’t know, but it sounds sweet and delicious.