It is so good to be depressed

It is common for most people to have been depressed one time in their life, but being in a depressed state is one way of learning to trust in a Higher Power. You feel you are vulnerable and that you can't do it alone. It is this time that you feel 'the earth is falling' that you need to trust in the Lord! T r u s t in the LORD my friend!! I'm on your side!

I like to be depressed too, but not all the time. I can't function properly for my family if I was depressed all the time. But I find that my creative side peaks when I'm depressed. My writings are so much better. I prefer to write about serious issues than "happy endings" stories that are so boring and predictable. Real life, real issues is what it's all about.

I'm sorry to hear you're feeling this way hun. This is not the sort of discussion I ever thought you would start. I don't think you would have started it today unless you were specifically feeling down today? I do go through depression quite often and it's just related to my diabetes. I have nothing bad in my life (apart from the stupid diabetes) that should make me feel down. When my sugar levels are too high I get very emotional and the smallest things make me burst into tears. I try so hard to control my sugar levels but sometimes I fail miserably. I hate feeling depressed and low but can't help it sometimes. The thing is I know what's causing it but I can't stop it, if that makes sense. When I feel this way, I just want to be left alone and sometimes I feel bad to telling my husband to keep out of my way but the worse I feel the more I take it out on him so I just tell him to leave me to my own devices so I can't be mean to him! He tends to be VERY understanding which makes me feel even worse because he doesn't deserve any of this! Cheer up hun, I know it's easy to say, but have you thought about what causes your depression? Is it a specific situation that causes your down feelings? Or do you think it's health related? Until I found out I had diabetes I thought I was going mad as I had no idea why I was feeling depressed when everything in my life was going so well! xx

Hi there, Sorry to learn your depress right now. But I don't understand why since you seem to have a good job, have a condo and everything else. You have a steady job, a nice place to live. I don't have that myself, I am the one who should be depress but I am not. Tired, but not depress. I hate the work place here in Montreal, people are crazy here and you cannot imagine all the things I have been through here! It's vey awful. I once was in Ottawa, everything was going fine, but I had that job offer for Montreal, so I move. I first enjoy it, but after, when I discove who the person who have give me the interview was really who and what was the job was trully about and once I experiment all that disturbations on computer and programs who didn't work right and a bunch of other things, well, it make me feel angry. And I quite my job, just like that. I am now have an evening job and I clean places during the week-end. I also work for agencies. I have nothing stable. Your an engineer and you feel it's ok being depress??? I just don't undestand. Myself, I am angry, I have a bad temper, but I am not depress. When feeling depress, just think of all that you have. Your lucky enough to not have to get involve into the massage industry to pay your bills.... lol Do you have an idea of what I am talking about? :) lol....

I can't say I've ever heard that before. Usually people are always looking for a way out of depression. Can't you say what it is exactly that you like about it? You've got me curious.

It is common for most people to have been depressed one time in their life, but being in a depressed state is one way of learning to trust in a Higher Power. You feel you are vulnerable and that you can't do it alone. It is this time that you feel 'the earth is falling' that you need to trust in the Lord! T r u s t in the LORD my friend!! I'm on your side!

What possible good purpose could feeling depressed serve you? You can have productive times and you can have productive times. No reason to ever have down times. If you are sad and crying and feeling low, there has to be a reason. Instead of focusing on the depression and letting that control your feelings, why not work on fixing whatever it is that is causing those feelings? Feeling all this self-pity will only bring more of it into your life.

It is different and refreshing to hear someone being honest about that. I, like most of us who are bi-polar, prefer the mania. I tend to get a lot more thing done and actually enjoy what I am doing. My depressive cycles have so much other baggage attached that it just gets to much to deal with. But there are times, that a certain depressive cycle can cause a good cry and kind of unloads some anger, frustration and anxiety.

I also like being depressed because I want to be. Mostly I want to cry or just sit there looking sad and lonely. I think depression helps me alot. When I was going through a bad time it never helped to be happy and now I'm depressed even more thanks to that, and I LOVE it!

i use to be like that too... i kinda enjoyed being depressed... im not sure why... being sad and crying and feeling sorry for yourself really isnt that much fun... now, well i have a fantastic life and i would much rather be happy than sad. believe me, you may think you like it but just wait til happiness comes your way youll love it much more