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Originally Posted by Ford Man
For years I had the same problem no matter how much I slept I was still tired. It finally got to a point where I couldn't go to sleep at all and ended up that I was suffering from severe depression.
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Hrm...
Dare I say it?!?!?
If you look at my last 'fuel log' entry, you'll see that I spent 4 hours, and a half tank of gas, talking a friend out of their 'depression'. I finally convinced him to figure out the source of his anger and go attack it/them, rather than himself.
Turned out, after hours of talking - his family is driving him crazy - sucking him dry financially, emotionally, and physically. "Great", I said, "Go home and kick their blood-sucking parasite arses out! Or, at least be a man and yell at 'em!"
He's doing MUCH better now - took the noose down in his garage and everything...
Depression, so called, is simply anger directed toward yourself. That is, a depressed person is an angry person with no outlet for their anger, so they turn the anger on themselves. If they don't release this anger, sometimes they kill themselves or someone else.
Putting a 'depressed' person on meds usually just makes the situation worse - sometimes they kill LOTS of people!
Evaluate, medicate, evacuate - that's the mantra of the mental health system - and I think the OP is V smart to stay away from the pill pushers. You're better taking up amateur boxing, or something, and getting it out of your system, than trying to suppress inner anger, e.g. depression with meds...