At the risk of sounding emo....

[Chryst Krispies]

Anyone out there ever just feel really emotionally shitty for like no reason at all?

I've been really crappy lately and I can't deduce why.:Smug:

Not even power metal has been able to lift me up.

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah dude, I feel I'm especially prone to it cuz of a hereditary predisposition, and a few years ago I had what could only be descrbed as a major depressive episode, where I just felt miserable for absolutely no reason for a good few months. True depression generally doesn't have a cause, which a lot of people don't seem to understand - the best way to look at it is really as a sickness; with a stomach virus, for example, you're ALWAYS aware you have it, it's hard to find a cause, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it except let it pass. What's worked for me is to just do all the things that I know should make me feel better (most specifically work/guitar/music writing for the satisfaction factor, but also being social), and the distraction they provide helps the tide of the particular depressive episode pass faster.

Could just be the transition into fall that's got you down dude, I know it can have that effect on me some time!

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I have a genetic predispostion to it as well I believe, Not to use that as a crutch or as any other kinda dish off. But I've been on my lifting routine religiously and my diet is always in check. Perhaps too much so. My appetite is slashed, and getting up has been a chore and a half. I just transferred into a new school, after a semester plus summer off and maybe the social shock I guess the word would be is yanking me. I don't think It's S.A.D cause I love the fall.
Thanks for the reply though I'll try and distract myself.

 

[kev]

more porn is required here. Try listening to the new basshunter album! IT's immense

 

[beyond dead]

ive been feeling pretty shitty too. but iI just kicked a bad addiction a while ago, so that explains it haha ive been suicidal before aswell. not fun.

 

[dan weapon]

Occasionally I feel pretty bad but it is very rare and ONLY when I've not had enough sleep for a good number of days, and usually combined with stress of some sort. But I know the source so that is not a problem.

A good diet plus exercise is definitely going to help, but if you already have that you need to suss out whether it is more work/school/stress related or relationship/family related. My diet and sleep pattern is usually really good so I feel pretty decent most of the time. But if I am sleep deprived for more than a couple of days then my emotions can be all over the place for even the smallest reason...

 

[Black neon bob]

For me it's because it's almost fall/winter... i would just rather sleep during these days and wake up when the sun shines again.
lol, not very metal but i HATE dark days and bad weather..

 

[Metaltastic]

...but if you already have that you need to suss out whether it is more work/school/stress related or relationship/family related.

True depression generally doesn't have a cause, which a lot of people don't seem to understand - the best way to look at it is really as a sickness; with a stomach virus, for example, you're ALWAYS aware you have it, it's hard to find a cause, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it except let it pass.

Not saying you're going through what I did, Chryst, but I just wanna make clear, Dan, that sometimes you can do everything right and still feel absolutely wretched due to biological reasons, and it sucks mightily.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I been diagnosed with depression. But I think drugs are fucked (I've tried 4 at this point and just gave up on the idea), so I pretty much feel shitty all the time. I let people know if I am feeling "really shitty" if you catch me .

When the weather is really pissy that's when it gets real bad.

 

[Sloan]

DUDE.
IF YOUR FEELIN' DOWN AND OUT - CRANK UP THE FUCKING RIFFZ.

FUCK THE NEIGHBORS. FUCK THE PARENTS/ROOMATES. FUCK THE WORLD.

1. CHUG AT LEAST A 2-LITER OF MOUNTAIN DEW.
2. MAX VOLUME THAT SHIT & JAM ALONG AND SEND THAT DEPRESSIVE BULLSHIT TO HELL'S ASSHOLE.
3. PARTY.

 

[midget donkeys]

Sometimes it helps to just talk to somebody. Something might be bothering you on a subconsious level that you don't realize. I recently went to the Veterans hospital and talked to a some one there.

Afterward I realized that why I had recently been so opposed to my wife and I having children. I didn't notice it until I talked about it out loud, but around the same time I couldn't get the memory of a small boy in Iraq I new out of my head. He was captured by insurgents and tortured to death on video tape, which was then sent to his family. This obviously disturbed me, but I didn't see the connection to my own resistance to having a child.

After realizing the connection to myself having children the anxiety I felt talking to wife about having a family went away.

Anyway talk to some body.

 

[Metaltastic]

Afterward I realized that why I had recently been so opposed to my wife and I having children. I didn't notice it until I talked about it out loud, but around the same time I couldn't get the memory of a small boy in Iraq I new out of my head. He was captured by insurgents and tortured to death on video tape, which was then sent to his family. This obviously disturbed me, but I didn't see the connection to my own resistance to having a child.

Wow dude, that's really intense - were you over there with the military? And was the boy an Iraqi kid who supported (or rather, whose family supported, I doubt a kid really had any opinion on the matter :Smug: ) the US?

 

[Metaltastic]

DUDE.
IF YOUR FEELIN' DOWN AND OUT - CRANK UP THE FUCKING RIFFZ.

FUCK THE NEIGHBORS. FUCK THE PARENTS/ROOMATES. FUCK THE WORLD.

1. CHUG AT LEAST A 2-LITER OF MOUNTAIN DEW.
2. MAX VOLUME THAT SHIT & JAM ALONG AND SEND THAT DEPRESSIVE BULLSHIT TO HELL'S ASSHOLE.
3. PARTY.

All I can do is laugh and give a bunch of these: Especially about Hell's asshole

 

[Meisterjäger]

I'm not in any way taking sides or anything, and do definitely believe that everything Metaltastic has said is completely true, depression is an illness. I guess this is kinda off the topic of how you're feeling, but more to back up what dan said, because over the past year I've realised how much difference your diet does make.

I used to have really bad phases of being quite a horrible person, went through sabbotaging relationships with chicks and quit playing my guitar for at least 8 months in 2006. About 4 months into 2007, and after (What I believe, anyway) my poor diet got me to the point of having renal troubles, I started working out, and more specifically it seems, drinking around 3 litres of water a day instead of sugary soft drinks. 4 months of that (I guess it took that long to purge the toxins in my system) and I felt like a new man. The first time I really noticed how much of a massive change had taken place was Festival season. I used to feel like SHIT at festivals, but this year I was a machine, I couldn;t be stopped. I was moshing for 8 hours a day, and with each new day just wanted more!

I kept that up for a year, and recently swayed back on to junk food and soft drinks, and I just fucked yet another relationship up. It's taken about a month for me to fuck myself up again and undo everything. I'm sorting myself out now. Hopefully it won't be another 4 month cycle.

The shit you fuel your body with is the most important thing in your life. It has an effect on absolutely everything else.

Chryst, I hope you feel better soon, dude.

 

[Jevil]

For me it's because it's almost fall/winter... i would just rather sleep during these days and wake up when the sun shines again.

You should reincarnate as a bear next life.
Autumn/Winter sleeping and spring and summer eating to catch some weight and fornicating everyday.

 

[midget donkeys]

Hey metaltastic, the kid washed dishes in the mess hall some of the time. Unemployment was huge in the area, and his family was probally poor as hell, so it was the only job he could have gotten.

But he could have been killed for working for us, or being of a different ethinc/relgious background or even being of a different tribe as people who killed him.

I meet him because I was wounded on a raid and put on light duty in the mess hall with him for a little while.

 

[dan weapon]

Not saying you're going through what I did, Chryst, but I just wanna make clear, Dan, that sometimes you can do everything right and still feel absolutely wretched due to biological reasons, and it sucks mightily.

Sorry man, I wasn't in anyway trying to imply that there isn't such a thing as depression! My suggestions weren't meant as the be all and end all of why you might be feeling unhappy...

I've never ever suffered from depression or such like, but I have definitely had a few days which I felt a sense a uselessness that I imagine is very similar to what depression is like.

But I could attribute those days down to certain factors of which I was aware of. I suppose that is the critical factor.
If you can think of no reason at all as to why you might feel really down, I can offer no helpful advice through lack of personal experience…

However, if clinical depression is not the definite cause - good diet, sleep and exercise is at least something worth trying!

 

[Sloan]

The shit you fuel your body with is the most important thing in your life. It has an effect on absolutely everything else.

Chryst, I hope you feel better soon, dude.

I absolutely agree with this. A few years ago, I had a job as a truck unloader, IT FUCKING SUCKED, but I lost almost 60lbs in a year. I started cutting off all the shitty soft drinks as well opting for water instead. I felt so fucking awesome and it was so much easier to get chicks even just because I felt better about MYSELF. Sonds unrelated maybe, but dude, it was awesome.

Unfortunately, I haven't had that job for a long time and have gained a lot of weight back so I no longer fit in all the sweetass JC Penny $10 on sale AC/DC shirts that I bought. FUCK.

 

[Black neon bob]

You should reincarnate as a bear next life.
Autumn/Winter sleeping and spring and summer eating to catch some weight and fornicating everyday.

I'll see what i can do...

 

[dreamcatcher]

Time for me to fire up the phototherapy light, for sure. Fuckin New England seems worse than the midwest for my seasonal affective disorder :Smug: