Rob – Sorry to hear that you’re feeling so down. It had seemed that you were doing better lately (my impression via your posts). Depression is a real disease, and while a therapist might not be the answer, you do need some outside help to deal with it. People find comfort in many ways, either through art, music, religion, or anything that engages you and makes you feel better. You could also look into support groups, getting into a new hobby, ir just getting out there and meeting people. Good luck.
Also, rob, consider Chinese medicine. In Hong Kong we don’t really do talk therapy–we’re all too repressed, ha ha! We go to the Chinese doctor for herbs and acupuncture when we feel low.
The Chinese doctors believe that depression is caused by system imbalance, and that to relieve it you must readjust the energy inside a person.
I guess it is the same idea as anti-depressant medication, but it is done in a more gentle, holistic way, with many thousands of years of experience behind it.
When you write that everyone you know is on drugs, my first thought was that they are all on Prozac or something like it. Because that is true of so many of my New York friends–they are not on crack or meth, they are on “meds”.
Biff, lol. I am harmless. I just know how to defend myself in a situation if need be. I would NEVER start a fight. I don’t need that. I have only been in 2 street/school fights in my life where I actually had to fight. In one, I really damaged a guy pretty badly and in the second, odds were really against me lol (2 against like 15-20) and I left that one with a dislocated jaw that still comes out of socket till this day (freaks my dentist out when she says open wide).
“Six, For a second there, I thought I was reading one of WHAT’s tamed rants from October 6, 2008.”
Haha Kens, I left out the part the What wrote in his better days:
The individual who makes the most money – no matter how – and spends the most money – no matter for what – is considered the greatest man. To be extravagant is to be fashionable. These facts sufficiently account for the immense and brilliant audiences at the opera and the theatres, and until the final crash comes such audiences will undoubtedly continue.
I don’t think rob needs a therapist. When I meet him in person he seems to be real easy going & level headed. I think his observation that many of his acquaintences have problems is just that.
And he’s right, if you understand your problems and don’t really want to change, then a therapist isn’t going to do you any good. God knows I’ve got a few and would never waste my time with a therapist.
I think rob’s outlet is ranting here like that. It seems he gets it off his chest and that’s the best therapy.
Rob, I know this isn’t really my business, and totally not a topic for a “real estate” blog, but if you are so constantly on edge about your economic security, why is it you are against single payer health care? I would think now of all times you would see how precarious the situation is for anyone living in this country. What happened to all those people who are no longer riding the train? If they lost their jobs, they will lose their health care, in all probability. How is it helpful to the economy at large, that people use emergency services because they have no insurance? It puzzles me that you can live so close to the edge of real poverty and not see the scare tactics being used to make you feel that something that would only be beneficial to you is bad. Maybe your “anti-Europe” rants aren’t meant entirely seriously…. But if you do lose your job, will you have health care, and for how long?
drugs are bad
couldn’t agree with Dave more on the Rob comment.
“We had a shooting target class at 9 years old (2nd grade) and I learned how to hold a Kalashnikov properly and shoot a gun.”
Kens, OMG. Seriously? In 2nd grade? Wow. I had no idea they did that.
Rob – Sorry to hear that you’re feeling so down. It had seemed that you were doing better lately (my impression via your posts). Depression is a real disease, and while a therapist might not be the answer, you do need some outside help to deal with it. People find comfort in many ways, either through art, music, religion, or anything that engages you and makes you feel better. You could also look into support groups, getting into a new hobby, ir just getting out there and meeting people. Good luck.
Also, rob, consider Chinese medicine. In Hong Kong we don’t really do talk therapy–we’re all too repressed, ha ha! We go to the Chinese doctor for herbs and acupuncture when we feel low.
The Chinese doctors believe that depression is caused by system imbalance, and that to relieve it you must readjust the energy inside a person.
I guess it is the same idea as anti-depressant medication, but it is done in a more gentle, holistic way, with many thousands of years of experience behind it.
When you write that everyone you know is on drugs, my first thought was that they are all on Prozac or something like it. Because that is true of so many of my New York friends–they are not on crack or meth, they are on “meds”.
Biff, lol. I am harmless. I just know how to defend myself in a situation if need be. I would NEVER start a fight. I don’t need that. I have only been in 2 street/school fights in my life where I actually had to fight. In one, I really damaged a guy pretty badly and in the second, odds were really against me lol (2 against like 15-20) and I left that one with a dislocated jaw that still comes out of socket till this day (freaks my dentist out when she says open wide).
“Six, For a second there, I thought I was reading one of WHAT’s tamed rants from October 6, 2008.”
Haha Kens, I left out the part the What wrote in his better days:
The individual who makes the most money – no matter how – and spends the most money – no matter for what – is considered the greatest man. To be extravagant is to be fashionable. These facts sufficiently account for the immense and brilliant audiences at the opera and the theatres, and until the final crash comes such audiences will undoubtedly continue.
I don’t think rob needs a therapist. When I meet him in person he seems to be real easy going & level headed. I think his observation that many of his acquaintences have problems is just that.
And he’s right, if you understand your problems and don’t really want to change, then a therapist isn’t going to do you any good. God knows I’ve got a few and would never waste my time with a therapist.
I think rob’s outlet is ranting here like that. It seems he gets it off his chest and that’s the best therapy.
Rob, I know this isn’t really my business, and totally not a topic for a “real estate” blog, but if you are so constantly on edge about your economic security, why is it you are against single payer health care? I would think now of all times you would see how precarious the situation is for anyone living in this country. What happened to all those people who are no longer riding the train? If they lost their jobs, they will lose their health care, in all probability. How is it helpful to the economy at large, that people use emergency services because they have no insurance? It puzzles me that you can live so close to the edge of real poverty and not see the scare tactics being used to make you feel that something that would only be beneficial to you is bad. Maybe your “anti-Europe” rants aren’t meant entirely seriously…. But if you do lose your job, will you have health care, and for how long?