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User	Venia | 2007-04-21 |
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Message	Well, everyone has days, weeks or even months like that. The answer to your question? Well, no one knows it. We all just figure that if we are continuing to get up and live each morning, there must be a reason behind it or our brain would have just stopped in our sleep and ended it all. That’s good enough for me at the moment.

User	silent_death12 | 2007-04-18 |
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Message	I love the way that was worded Joey, hallmark sentiments are rather infamous for being well intentioned but lacking sincerity; I never gave that individual aspect of cliche’s much thought =] many thanks for the perspective.... but I completely agree, some generic sentiment won’t help someone who wants to actually be better, instead of just pretending that they are.

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-04-17 |
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Message	Hallmark sentiments like that don’t really help someone who is truly depressed.

User	EternitysLyre | 2007-04-17 |
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Message	Not to sound horribly imposing, or somewhat condescending, but the simple answer is that everything you were raised to believe was "your meaning in life" has actually been what humans like to think of as a "greater purpose" and what most less-inspired individuals would just call narcissism. We give ourselves meaning in life. No more, no less, and even if you think someone else gave you your meaning in life, the truth is that no one told you to accept it. Why wake up every morning? Because the sun is shining. Because the birds are chirping. Because a warm, tasty breakfast is on the table and your mother’s threatening to go up there with the baseball bat. Because you do. Meaning exists only so much as you want it to. So if you can find something that you can tell yourself was worthwhile to do, 10 years from now, you’ve struck existential gold. You have meaning.

User	UnderlinedInRed | 2007-04-10 |
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Message	I think its because we are in a increasing world of globalization and materialistic ideas. I know I started being depressed once I moved continents, really messed me up. And then I am burnt out all week from working in school and everything. Seems like even on vacations I am stressing out about getting back. No one gets to just chill anymore.

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-04-10 |
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Message	"why ARE so many people depressed these days" my personal belief is our society is too frenetic and pressured in all areas. i see people @ work back from vacation and they look more exhausted than before they left. too much, too much, too much! we are too materialistic, trying to keep up w/the jonses and all that, wanting too much, living too large and getting into massive debt for it.

User	GiveMeTheGun | 2007-04-09 |
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Message	& why ARE so many people depressed these days? more than half of Americans are depressed, insomnic, suicidal, etc. when we should be the happiest. We have practically everything, right? I think it’s because we’ve become too materialistic. We can’t find happiness in the simplest things because we’re just not used to it. You know the place where people are the happiest is in some third world country? It’s called contentment.

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-04-09 |
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Message	What a buncha crap! Jennifer, I’m sure your intentions are good, but ’just have faith’ in her sitatuation isn’t going tohelp. Having been through major depressive episodes, vague hallmark sentiments aren’t what helped me. What DID help was knowing my wife and son (I only had one at the time) needed me and I had to get up and get going no matter what I felt like. My faith helped some, but it took intense counseling, medicine and support for me to really get better. I still have to battle it some mornings, but no as hard as I had to in the past.

User	Jeniffer | 2007-04-08 |
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Message	This is a difficult question to answer because what works for one person might not work for another. You probably already know that there are good things out there for you, and are able to see with enough clarity to know that this rut is not the end of the world; but you still feel like crap. I can’t really tell you anything specific because I don’t know just what is going on in your life; but I think the best advice I can give you is to just have faith. When you wake up and know that you aren’t feeling yourself, and you can’t get to feeling motivated, what will help propel you out of bed is faith that you can and will find happiness soon; look for opportunities to do something positive. Also search yourself to find what it is that is making you feel the way you do. If you look with honesty, you will see the truth and should know what the right thing to do is.

User	dismentled | 2007-04-08 |
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Message	LMAO, haha, oh go, thanx I needed that. Avril, girl, you might wanna chill just a bit. Has it even crossed your mind that you just might be wrong? Hmm, has it? Cause, not every religion can be right, and who’s to say any of them are? They could all be bs, nobody KNOWS, plenty believe, but that’s nothing more than the power of persuasion. And further more, I’m curious, exactly what ARE my beliefs? I mean, since you’re telling everyone not to listen to me, I’m wondering exactly what it is that I was being influencial on?

User	silent_death12 | 2007-04-08 |
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Message	anyway*

User	silent_death12 | 2007-04-08 |
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Message	Avril will you give it a fucking break? no one asked what YOU think happens after death because quite frankly YOU don’t know. I’m more than certain there are people *on this thread* that either disagree with you completely or just agree to a certain extent because I’m one of them. and Dismentled has a right to his own opinion and straight out encouraging someone to ignore something that was not meant to be taken 100% seriously anyone just serves to make *you* look very stupid. -Jess-

User	UnderlinedInRed | 2007-04-08 |
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Message	haha ok I promise I wont bug anyone about being depressed. I am actually not very depressed right now. Although its making my writing suck more...eh.

User	Avril54 | 2007-04-07 |
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Message	not that you ARE taking it out on people.......i’m just sayin’

User	Avril54 | 2007-04-07 |
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Message	You only get one life. Afterwards, it’s heaven or hell. And DO NOT listen to dismentled! Just because you’re burned out is NO reason to bug the living hell outta of everybody who happens to cross your path.

User	UnderlinedInRed | 2007-04-06 |
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Message	Alright..well yeah I wrote this post thingy ages ago when I was in a very dark stage of my life. Kinda lonely, not very many friends, and my parents were being pretty hard on me about school and things. Which also wasnt it. But just to clarify, I would never ever ever ever become suicidal or ever harm myself in anyway. And in response to a few emails I have gotten: I will speak to a counselor soon, as soon as I can. Its just hard in my position. I went to family therapy a while ago and it didnt do much. I cant just open up to my parents and say "oh by the way is it alright if I see someone, by myself?" Thats just...not the kind of relationship we have.

User	silent_death12 | 2007-04-05 |
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Message	*if (not of...O_O)

User	silent_death12 | 2007-04-05 |
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Message	of course.... life’s as long as you let it be. or as long as it chooses to be but how many can really tell you just how long death is? at the same time....are you still living while you’re dying? are you enjoying it? hm....just thought of that; it’d suck of that, ya know, dying, was the highlight of your life.

User	dismentled | 2007-04-05 |
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Message	I live cause death is so much longer than life, and if death is as bad as life, I think I wanna postpone it, for now.

User	UnderINK | 2007-04-04 |
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Message	People don’t stop to smell the flowers often enough. I think life is wonderful and I enjoy waking up every day simply to live. I live for getting kisses, reading new books, learning new things, hearing new songs, laughing at more jokes, eating new food. Life is about learning and experiencing, and that’s what I wake up for.