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05-01-2005, 08:41 AM
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Seems like all us writers are depressed??
Maybe I'm just more likely to notice these sort of things right now, but I'm reading so many threads (other writing forums, too) where people are talking about waking up feeling depressed, alone, useless and just generally crap.
Are we writers because we feel these emotions more extremely than others? Or are we just better at communicating/talking about them (at least on the internet, maybe not in person) because we write so much? Or is there no difference between us and "the others" and I'm just imagining it all?
And just why is everyone so depressed?
We need some sort of forum/group/club/network/thing to support and cheer each other up. Somewhere you can be frank about why you're depressed, and you know the replies will always be written with an empathetic heart, and hopefully have some wise or consoling words. Well, that's how I feel, anyway...
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05-01-2005, 08:45 AM
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I'm not depressed. I was, but I'm happy now. Very happy.
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05-01-2005, 08:46 AM
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im not depressed, in fact i ENJOY hating everything 
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05-01-2005, 08:47 AM
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Ah, that's fantastic news!
I only just noticed your sig, Sap, and that made me smile. So I guess I'm happy too
EDIT: Soli, I guess as long as it floats your boat, then I'm happy for you 
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05-01-2005, 09:15 AM
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Depressed? Me? Damn that's depressing news!
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05-01-2005, 09:26 AM
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Pah! I'm not depressed. I used to be a few years ago, but not anymore. Everybody gets bummed out once in a while, and I think us writers express it more often than everyone else, since we usually turn it into a poem, song, story, etc.
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05-01-2005, 09:46 AM
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The necessity to write is often preempted by the necessity to think. The need for serious thought is only really prevelant in individuals who have difficulty interfacing with the world as a whole. Happy people rarely need to spend much time contemplating the universe; such thought are the result of unhappiness.
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05-01-2005, 10:37 AM
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depressed?... nah... a waste of time and energy...
disgusted?... oh, yeah!... the price of being an honest philosopher and seeing what is, instead of what one wishes was, is not being able to excuse all of mankind's mendacious ways and the mess it makes of everything...
siiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhhh!
i'm still waiting to hear if my application for being adopted by amoebae will be approved...
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05-01-2005, 10:44 AM
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I'm more misanthropic than I am depressed.
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05-01-2005, 11:08 AM
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The problem is... with intelligence comes depression. The more you know about the world, the sadder and sadder you get. And writers are very intelligent folks. Horrorcrafter
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05-01-2005, 11:12 AM
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and, with above average intelligence, comes acceptance of the horrors one can't change!
imo, 'sad' doesn't equal 'depressed'... i'm sad all the time, about this world and what goes on in it... but, i'm not depressed...
plus, 'writers' aren't any more intelligent as a group than any other group... just read some of the bleep that people write [both published and not], and you should see the flaw in that claim... now, that could depress me, if i was depressable! 
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05-01-2005, 12:15 PM
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Poetry is a vehicule
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those who come by the door...
and those who come by the window...
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05-01-2005, 12:22 PM
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I'm allowed to be, I'm 16! It's written into the contract.
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05-01-2005, 12:23 PM
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being a poet keeps me from being suicidal,
'cause, while i'm writing poems, despair is set on 'idle'...
when i pour my heart out in verse that's rhymed or blank,
i'm venting my frustration (being just a crank),
'stead of walking that ol' plank, 'n opting for death's blank!
izzat what you meant, luis?
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05-01-2005, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by horrorcrafter
The problem is... with intelligence comes depression. The more you know about the world, the sadder and sadder you get. And writers are very intelligent folks. Horrorcrafter
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But the wiser and wiser you get, the happier you get, since you see the futility in being all depressed and angsty.
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