johnny on the spot said:Aphex said:johnny on the spot said:I'll be completely honest with you here, Aphex. This post upset and disappointed me and that was me mainly directing that at myself because I thought, 'You know what, that guy's correct. Loads of people go through similar things without resorting to banging on on the internet or attention seeking'. But you misunderstand the reasons for my posts. I simply post what I feel because I can and because it helps. I'm not looking for 'There theres' or 'Ah blesses'. It's what's happening and not enough people report it in places like this. I don't want an audience or heaven forbid a soapbox, I just want to report what's going on. If that doesn't interest you, don't read it. Cheers and all the best.
Fair enough. People do things in different ways and I was ignorant to think otherwise. No hard feelings from me.
Nor me. Peace mate.
TangerineSteve17 said:It's projecting really. I'm prone to it too. To bleat on and on about anything isn't a charming quality though. It makes you seem ill, and what's attractive about someone who is sick and constantly letting you know? I admire those secure people who either have no internal confusion or just bottle it up nice and tight. Closed books, conservative.
It'd be nice to be that in control of yourself. On a basic level though, we aren't in control ever. This can't be just me. When you get countless thoughts and mental images a day that you didn't want to think of. They just pop in and out of consciousness without so much as a 'hello' or 'do you mind If i just...'
Makes you feel helpless. As quick as you tell one to fuck off another is on it's way.
It might be low strength of character, lack of understanding. Syphilis :) who knows. Quite selfish really, but that's what we know the best, our own selves, even if we don't even know that very well.
It's all circular too, you go through good times and bad but it just all comes round again and again. The moods, and the constantly changing of mind and what you think is right or good. I don't wanna sound tortured, or over-dramatic, it just is what it is. I imagine we all or most of us get this. Definitely not easy this living lark.
Some people want pity I am sure, they might need/deserve it. Others just want to write it down and get it off the chest and there is something easing about writing it where somebody might read it, rather than on a piece of paper with a pencil in the kitchen and then screwing it up and throwing it away and then wishing you hadn't.
Gaylord du Bois said:At what point in time, did feeling low become an abnormal human emotion?
johnny on the spot said:TangerineSteve17 said:It's projecting really. I'm prone to it too. To bleat on and on about anything isn't a charming quality though. It makes you seem ill, and what's attractive about someone who is sick and constantly letting you know? I admire those secure people who either have no internal confusion or just bottle it up nice and tight. Closed books, conservative.
It'd be nice to be that in control of yourself. On a basic level though, we aren't in control ever. This can't be just me. When you get countless thoughts and mental images a day that you didn't want to think of. They just pop in and out of consciousness without so much as a 'hello' or 'do you mind If i just...'
Makes you feel helpless. As quick as you tell one to fuck off another is on it's way.
It might be low strength of character, lack of understanding. Syphilis :) who knows. Quite selfish really, but that's what we know the best, our own selves, even if we don't even know that very well.
It's all circular too, you go through good times and bad but it just all comes round again and again. The moods, and the constantly changing of mind and what you think is right or good. I don't wanna sound tortured, or over-dramatic, it just is what it is. I imagine we all or most of us get this. Definitely not easy this living lark.
Some people want pity I am sure, they might need/deserve it. Others just want to write it down and get it off the chest and there is something easing about writing it where somebody might read it, rather than on a piece of paper with a pencil in the kitchen and then screwing it up and throwing it away and then wishing you hadn't.
Cheers for that Steve, excellently put.
chabal said:Gaylord du Bois said:At what point in time, did feeling low become an abnormal human emotion?
There is a genuine psychological perspective that suggests that people who are happy should be classed as mentally ill because they are clearly looking at the world through a distorted lens.
Over the last 40 years or so, with e rise of materialism, there has been a rise in FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out- it has become almost an obligation to BE HAPPY. That's why people on Facebook are often so desperate to paint their lives as unstintingly happy, successful etc.
By the way I am not knocking anybody with depression, bi-polar etc - just acknowledging that, as Gaylord suggested, melancholy etc is as indicative and reflective of life as is joy.