Running with scissors...

The difference between Depression and Hysterics?

I doubt many of you will understand this because this IS afterall the 'sadness and depression' section.

HOWEVER

Wouldn't you all agree that its s much more fun being happy!?

I get it.
I've been there,
LIFE IS HORRIBLE

But its up to us find the light right?

What is this ???
Why should we sit here and cry over loss and hurt within our small lives when life itself is so big?

Why do we wallow?

I understand that for some this time, the present does not allow the future to shine through.

I will agree to disagree.
Life is hard, you may be depressed as hell at the moment,
parents fighting/separating, death, self esteem issues or maybe your just young, like me.
Everyone deals with things differently.

All I'm asking you to do, is consider the impact others have on you.
Surely if they can effect you in such a large way wouldnt your life make as much difference?

Realise that YOU can change everything.

So try it.

SMILE

Its fascinating the effect it has on those around you,
and after all,

whats stopping you?

Emma, there are a couple things i have to say. first of all, it is not always in a person's control. i have been around a large number of people who suffer from clinical depression. it is not always in their control. there is a chemical imbalance that they have to deal with.

now you said that we have the power to influence our overall mental state and, with the exception i stated above, i agree. however when we do that are we actually making ourselves "happy"? or are we just creating a wall of denial and apathy? i have found myself doing that many times. i create a world where i am free of almost any human emotion. sometimes living in torment is the better choice. at least you actually feel alive rather than a machine. just my little contribution. feel free to disagree but that is my opinion.

Well said Britt.

I've also noticed that quite often the people who are actually depressed (vs the attention seekers), are not easily identified. quite often they hold it inside and tell very few people if anyone. My best friend who was actually suicidal only talked to maybe two people about what she was going through. No one else ever guessed. One of her best friends even said to me " I don't know why you worry every time she has a bad day. It's not like she is going to go kill herself."

I agree with Icarus' first post ^ as well as Britt's ^ It depeneds on the person I guess and their condition. Yes, some teens just get so dramatic and make themselves depressed. Others have clinical depression and cannot help it.

But I'm glad Emma that YOU have realized there's more to life and aren't just another 15 year old who thinks the world completely sucks and there's no hope what so ever.

--Viola

I'm glad you can see life in such a bright view. Really I am. Many people cannot. I used to be all depressed and shit but amazingly enough... life got so much better. I realise now that life isn't fixed. I might be happy now but I might not be next year. But that's ok because that too shall pass.

I sadly am also one of those people who doesn't talk much to others about my problems. and actually lately i have started to talk more..when I was little I completely didn't. I just have always prefered releasing my emotions though a form of art rather than talking about it.

No one outside of here knows that i am depressed! well my phsychiatrist and my mom but... thaz it! i hide it from everyone and thaz kinda y i don really agree w/you emma! i mean like u have a really great point!but... sometimes it hurts more trying to hold your feelings in and just wear a smile!

"sometimes it hurts more trying to hold your feelings in and just wear a smile!"

^ isn't that what you're doing anyways?.. i'm confused..

Yea wat im saying is wen u jus put a smile on and dont mean it it hurts more than jus letting people know! but... i don like people 2 worry bout me and well my friends worry bout me n e wayz and i jus try 2 pretend its ok even tho its not but... m e wayz wat i waz saying iz that if you wear a fake smile it doesn't always help
! sometimes it just hurts!

^^^^^^^
Completely agree. Hell, of course its going to hurt more.

Guys thanks for your views. I originally posted this thread just so people would actually consider it.
And I do agree with all of you talking about clinical depression.
It's uncontrollable. I should have mentioned in the first post that I wasnt talking about that, because I understand all to well that its not a mind over matter thing.

I wanted to get across to all those WILLINGLY bringing the shadow of pessimism into our lives through things like suicide threats....self mutilation....over things like breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend, parents divorce to the extremety of death that things can and will be ok
IF WE LET THEM.

I'm fifteen. I've been through it, self mutilation, for many reasons but it has only made my life better and stronger.
I'm not saying we shouldn't allow ourselves down time, just don't get stuck in the mudd because when that happens everyone is left covoured in shit.

Our view on life is raw power.
Learn to embrace it.

^ I definitely agree too. It's a great point..and some that many of these young teens going around these days have to consider.

But then as Mike said, some of us can't find strength in ourselves right away..
But still I think everyone needs to try and not just simply give up saying (As Britt puts it) "the world is out to get me"

It's easy to be happy when you are beautiful. It's easy to smile when you don't hear whipers behind your back, and jokes when they think you aren't listening. It's just fine and dandy to live if you are worth something. It's a bit harder if you're worthless, if you are more of a pain than a pleasure. It's hard to live in a world of beautiful girls and boys, too, when you stand out, so ugly and....wrong. Yeah, it would be nice if we could all make ourselves happy...but it's just not that easy.

I agree with Britt's first post (i'm behind). Maturity affects things, too. Some people just can't escape the sadness, the suffocating depressiong...sometimes it just doesn't go away and you can't figure out WHY. There's a difference between that and a little girl who can't make her make up look just right.