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Subject: Sadness

Can't really explain the idea for the topic; in brief, I finished reading so-and-so manga around 3 hours ago now and I still can't get my head over it. I honestly can't feel happiness at the moment; tried playing BF3 and doing some of the normal stuff that makes me laugh a lot and didn't even get a smile out of it. I'm just plain sad as hell right now.

So, not to have this focusing on me, have you ever felt sadness to the point you can't really enjoy something?

  • 12.31.2012 12:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.

Yeah. But once you get over that sadness everything is that much better.

  • 12.31.2012 12:34 AM PDT

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Why are you sad?

  • 12.31.2012 12:34 AM PDT

ya all the time then i down some shots you know just enough to feel numb and then i read some nabokov or joyce and then i pass out

  • 12.31.2012 12:34 AM PDT


Posted by: Unique Trooper
So, not to have this focusing on me, have you ever felt sadness to the point you can't really enjoy something?

It's called depression, a normal human emotion. Unless its prolonged and/or you feel suicidal, I wouldn't worry about it. Sometimes just going for a walk can help a lot. And avoid the emotional eating thing. Eating bad food will make it worse.

  • 12.31.2012 12:35 AM PDT
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Oh yeah, I've felt pretty numb before. Sorry you feel like that, I have no idea what that book is so I can't really help.

  • 12.31.2012 12:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: Unique Trooper
So, not to have this focusing on me, have you ever felt sadness to the point you can't really enjoy something?


Everyday. I have to gather energy to start playing a game. Although once I'm playing, it's okay.

  • 12.31.2012 12:36 AM PDT
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That's right. My plumage is brighter than yours.

Don't be so attached, OP.

  • 12.31.2012 12:36 AM PDT
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Yup.

Was it a sad ending?

  • 12.31.2012 12:36 AM PDT


Posted by: echo630
Don't be so attached, OP.

this is literally impossible

  • 12.31.2012 12:37 AM PDT


Posted by: xl OC Girl lx

Posted by: Unique Trooper
So, not to have this focusing on me, have you ever felt sadness to the point you can't really enjoy something?

It's called depression, a normal human emotion. Unless its prolonged and/or you feel suicidal, I wouldn't worry about it. Sometimes just going for a walk can help a lot. And avoid the emotional eating thing. Eating bad food will make it worse.


I've experienced depression before, though not suicidal. This is more just sadness about something than depression, I guess grief being the better word for it.

  • 12.31.2012 12:37 AM PDT

Marine Corps.
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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.


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Posted by: echo630
Don't be so attached, OP.

this is literally impossible


Um...

  • 12.31.2012 12:37 AM PDT
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That's right. My plumage is brighter than yours.

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Posted by: echo630
Don't be so attached, OP.

this is literally impossible


How is that? It's quite possible.

  • 12.31.2012 12:38 AM PDT


Posted by: Viper Skills

Posted by: ghostnubelost15

Posted by: echo630
Don't be so attached, OP.

this is literally impossible


Um...

brah

  • 12.31.2012 12:38 AM PDT

i hate when im sad hpe you feel better op.

  • 12.31.2012 12:38 AM PDT

Also, playing video games doesn't help. Back in the day when I would play Halo for like 6 hours a day, I didn't realize it at the time but looking back now, it was probably one of the most depressing time of my life. Upon selling my Xbox and never looking back, I now have a social life and feel so happy. I'm just saying, what you might think is helping you may be the cause of your sadness. It was for me.

/depressing rant. Sorry bout it.

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  • 12.31.2012 12:40 AM PDT


Posted by: evilicecream2
i hate when im sad hpe you feel better op.

this post literally warmed my heart im not sure why bless you

  • 12.31.2012 12:41 AM PDT

Marine Corps.
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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.


Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
Also, playing video games doesn't help. Back in the day when I would play Halo for like 6 hours a day, I didn't realize it at the time but looking back now, it was probably one of the most depressing time of my life. Upon selling my Xbox and never looking back, I now have a social life and feel so happy. I'm just saying, what you might think is helping you may be the cause of your sadness. It was for me.


Different strokes for different folks. I know people who love gaming and it's really their escape and their time to be doing what they love.

  • 12.31.2012 12:42 AM PDT


Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
Also, playing video games doesn't help. Back in the day when I would play Halo for like 6 hours a day, I didn't realize it at the time but looking back now, it was probably one of the most depressing time of my life. Upon selling my Xbox and never looking back, I now have a social life and feel so happy. I'm just saying, what you might think is helping you may be the cause of your sadness. It was for me.


I wouldn't say that playing video games was to cheer me up, it was just to get my mind off of it somewhat; which it promptly failed at doing. I could do something with friends, something "happy", but it still won't shake that feeling of sadness.

  • 12.31.2012 12:42 AM PDT

Calculus calms my troubled mind

Protip for depression: exercise, especially weightlifting, helps. Not being outside enough can make it worse too, at least in my experience.

  • 12.31.2012 12:43 AM PDT


Posted by: Viper Skills

Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
Also, playing video games doesn't help. Back in the day when I would play Halo for like 6 hours a day, I didn't realize it at the time but looking back now, it was probably one of the most depressing time of my life. Upon selling my Xbox and never looking back, I now have a social life and feel so happy. I'm just saying, what you might think is helping you may be the cause of your sadness. It was for me.


Different strokes for different folks. I know people who love gaming and it's really their escape and their time to be doing what they love.

I agree, I was just giving the OP something to think about. I thought playing video games and having my online "friends" was making me happy but it wasn't. I've just come to be more of a people-person over the years, but some people aren't and that's cool too.

  • 12.31.2012 12:44 AM PDT
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That's right. My plumage is brighter than yours.

Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
Also, playing video games doesn't help. Back in the day when I would play Halo for like 6 hours a day, I didn't realize it at the time but looking back now, it was probably one of the most depressing time of my life. Upon selling my Xbox and never looking back, I now have a social life and feel so happy. I'm just saying, what you might think is helping you may be the cause of your sadness. It was for me.


I feel like I remember you from many years ago....

...and yes, I have to agree with OC. I quit playing XBox and watching a lot of TV around the beginning or second year of high school (I still had a WoW problem for a bit, but I pulled out of it fairly quickly). I started spending more time outdoors, cultivating friendships, improving upon myself. I read more, ran more, worked out more, dated more, worked more, and eventually I was a much happier, less "deluded" guy.

But really, it was when I gave up (or did my best to give up) being attached (to everything, to people, to the world, to my emotions, to who I thought I should be) that I truly felt...peaceful. I am now poorer than I have ever been in my entire life (and I was born into and raised in a poor family), yet I am quite serene. The universe is literally mind-boggling huge. The world itself holds so many wonders. Your mind is a fractal. The potential of the human being is limitless. I suggest exploring the world. Think of it as activating your latent self. Start engaging in activities you might have avoided before due to fear or shame or embarrassment. Challenge your body and mind. And eventually, realize that there is no "you" inside of your mind or body--you are without fixed self. That means that you can be anyone. You are always changing anyway, so don't be attached to who you have been or who you think you should be. Transform!

  • 12.31.2012 12:47 AM PDT

Mreh.

Is it weird that I sort of enjoy being sad? I feel like it brings a certain clarity to my perceptions.

  • 12.31.2012 12:54 AM PDT


Posted by: echo630
Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
Also, playing video games doesn't help. Back in the day when I would play Halo for like 6 hours a day, I didn't realize it at the time but looking back now, it was probably one of the most depressing time of my life. Upon selling my Xbox and never looking back, I now have a social life and feel so happy. I'm just saying, what you might think is helping you may be the cause of your sadness. It was for me.


I feel like I remember you from many years ago....

...and yes, I have to agree with OC. I quit playing XBox and watching a lot of TV around the beginning or second year of high school (I still had a WoW problem for a bit, but I pulled out of it fairly quickly). I started spending more time outdoors, cultivating friendships, improving upon myself. I read more, ran more, worked out more, dated more, worked more, and eventually I was a much happier, less "deluded" guy.

But really, it was when I gave up (or did my best to give up) being attached (to everything, to people, to the world, to my emotions, to who I thought I should be) that I truly felt...peaceful. I am now poorer than I have ever been in my entire life (and I was born into and raised in a poor family), yet I am quite serene. The universe is literally mind-boggling huge. The world itself holds so many wonders. Your mind is a fractal. The potential of the human being is limitless. I suggest exploring the world. Think of it as activating your latent self. Start engaging in activities you might have avoided before due to fear or shame or embarrassment. Challenge your body and mind. And eventually, realize that there is no "you" inside of your mind or body--you are without fixed self. That means that you can be anyone. You are always changing anyway, so don't be attached to who you have been or who you think you should be. Transform!

You probably do. I used to post here a whole hell of a lot haha.

You worded your post very well, and that made me think of something else. I was seriously addicted to gaming. For like two years, all I did was play video games. I didn't even have my first kiss or go on a date until I was 18 because of my lack of a social life before then. I know it sounds pathetic but it really was a bad time in my life. Kids are becoming obese from not seeing the light of day anymore. I missed out on a lot. I mean playing video games once in a while is fine, but I'm not sure I can believe that it can be someone's source of happiness in the long run.

I hope I'm not straying too far from the topic here, but at least it felt good to say that. I've kind of kept that to myself for a while.

[Edited on 12.31.2012 12:57 AM PST]

  • 12.31.2012 12:56 AM PDT


Posted by: Ushan
Is it weird that I sort of enjoy being sad? I feel like it brings a certain clarity to my perceptions.


I do not believe I share the same feeling. At best, regarding the current matter, I feel both joy and sadness about it.

  • 12.31.2012 12:57 AM PDT