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Boy Wonder
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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Location: Clacton on sea
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 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject: re Eh? |
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| Oh.... ok, if you've got no Leo Sayer ,can i have a few of Seth the Gamekeeper off Emmerdale Farm? |
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Teacher in Rome
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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"When I need love, I just hold out my arms and I touch love"...
BW, if you can remember this, you should know better. Or you are really mad. Barking, in fact. |
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chi-chi-
Joined: 17 Jul 2004
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Location: In la-la land
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:18 am Post subject: Re: bouts of depression or panic attacks |
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on this subject but just veering away slightly, id be interested in hearing a few accounts from those of us who have indeed gone through a bout of depression or a period of severe panic attacks. i was diagniosed with something along these lines and i can swear that it was one of the most terrifying periods of my life (im 51, btw). any other experiences from others ??
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Umm you say it was one of the most terrifying periods of your life...I'm not trying to be funny or anything, but maybe you were going through a mid-life crisis?
All men go through it just about. Some slit their throats, others trade in their 40 year old for a couple of twenties, and some, like my father, just buy cheap crap from K-Mart.
Joking aside, maybe you really were just going through a mid-lifer.
When I was teenager, I thought I was nuts. I really did. Now I see other teenagers and they were just as loopy as me (and still am). It's just hormones. That's why you hear about a lot of teenage boys commiting crimes and stuff. Loopy from hormones, man. I hear so much nowdays about people staying on Paxil and Zoloft for years, when it's really only meant to be taken for a few months if at all. Since anti-depressants give you energy, many people commit suicide when they first start taking them just because they didn't have the energy to do it before.
Just travel around. Have a beer. Read a novel. Sing karaoke. Will do you a world of good, my dear friend. |
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basiltherat
Joined: 04 Oct 2003
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i wish it had been my mid-life crisis. unfortunately, my actual mid-life crisis consisted of running around with a 22 year old indonesian office secretary for 18 months before deciding to finally break the whole thing off. that wasnt funny either, especially wen the missus found out just 6 months into it ! No regrets now but, yeah, that was tough, too but not as distressing as the bout of depression i refer to in earlier post.
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Bindair Dundat
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: bouts of depression or panic attacks |
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| chi-chi- wrote: |
All men go through it just about. Some slit their throats, others trade in their 40 year old for a couple of twenties, and some, like my father, just buy cheap crap from K-Mart.
Joking aside, maybe you really were just going through a mid-lifer. |
Most men go through mid-life, if they're lucky, and mid-life is a time of adjustment, just like many other times of life. I hope you're not chalking mid-life changes up to hormones, as you do when you talk about adolescence:
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| It's just hormones. |
It's not just hormones. It's having to adjust to changing role expectations, changing personal desires, and changing external circumstances such as the acquisition, loss, and continuing development of loved ones.
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| Just travel around. Have a beer. Read a novel. Sing karaoke. Will do you a world of good, my dear friend. |
If you're blessed enough to be so easily distracted, yes, it would do you a world of good. Many people, however, find that they need more focused ways of dealing with the challenges that life presents.
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Bindair Dundat
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: bouts of depression or panic attacks |
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| basiltherat wrote: |
the cause, i was told by the doc, was most likely fear and reluctance/apprehension in adapting back to my home environment. he might have been right since i feel fine in the uk now after having spent half my life (at that time) - from age 22 to 46 - in asia.
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He was just applying Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is the most likely. When you talked to him, you may have slipped him a lot of clues about what you were thinking and feeling that weren't obvious to you at the time. You'll probably never know what "really" happened.
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