Vulture/Lizard, don't go to vissit Bluesoup's mother, you need to vissit my mother, and she told me that she attempted to give your father head, but he spewed forth his seed before he got his flys undone.

Oh and nice effort, shame it took you over a week to think that post out.  Come back next week with another update and another handle.

Sounds like a nice community Sherry, and thanks to you all for getting us the booty, my thanks to Pescado too for making it even easier to obtain.

You know, when I saw peoples names I recognised here, I thought it was great that they weren't afraid to compromise themselves in any way.  

I don't belong to that many sites but those sites I do belong to, can ban me if they so choose, no skin off my nose.  If we all stuck to our regular names, I think these sites would quickly find out that they are banning a huge proportion of the community and where would that leave them? I won't be changing my user name (even if it is crap), no siree.

I'd not heard of SFV before today, thanks for explaining how it works Blue, I may check it out at some stage although now we have PSMBD the need isn't so great.

Nouk, that is what I was trying to say - it's not that all depressed people want to kill themselves, they just want an end to the situation.  Well put.

Glad you posted that and yup this thread has been thoroughly derailed - I'm off to scrub the decks.

Well that's just great and they had a little class about it too, unlike some.

Heh we're all different and we all have different coping mechanisims.  I know a lot of depressives and being one myself earns me the right to think whatever I like about the subject.

Yes, I managed to pull myself out of it, but that was after a year of suffering, it is a living hell but I came through the other end after trying various different drugs and realizing that they weren't working for me.  So I managed to change my diet, and my thinking patterns and that did work for me.

My partner has Dysthymia, he has had it since he was a child but even he admits to sometimes using his depression as a blanket because that's all he's ever known, when he doesn't feel comfortable with a situation for instance, he'll say "I'm depressed today" as an excuse to go and hole up with the quilt pulled over his head.  He admits that, that's one of the reasons I love him, he's incredibly honest with himself and others.

Oh, and thanks for jumping down my throat but please tell me where I said "get over it", I would never say anything as insensitive as that - when I was depressed, my friends & family told me to "snap out of it" all the time, as if I could.  Given that, I'm hardly likely to say that to anyone else when I damned well know better.

If you are referring to the Denis Leary quote - not my words, just something that makes me laugh at myself.

Can Lizards be made to walk the plank?

Well, I said earlier that I have had depression, my partner is also a longtime sufferer of depression.  I wouldn't say that it was a condition where you wanted to kill yourself rather, you just don't want to live or have no interest in life.  It's a far cry from actually contemplating jumping off the biggest bloody building you can find.

Nouk is right in that, your brain becomes warped and sometimes getting out of bed or combing your hair becomes a real problem, you fret over stupid things, feel guilty about anything and everything and nothing interests you, not even money lol!

I tried anti-depressants for several months and I felt worse, I quit the meds and I changed my diet and just thought "fuck this" and pulled myself out of it.  I didn't like the person I was becoming.

The problem as I see it is, some sufferers, even when they feel better, cling to this "Oh I'm so depressed" statement because this is a state of mind they have become used to.  When you don't want to face up to something it's too easy to say "I'm depressed" and use it as an excuse for all sorts of behaviours.

Pes is right, alow yourself to be unhappy now and again, that's real life, real happiness is fleeting.  I think we are all so bombarded with shite on the television, films, books & magazines telling us we should all be living our lives a certain way and look how happy you could be if only you had this hair product, drank this soda etc, had this lawn mower etc.,  We've all lost touch with what's important no wonder there are so many people with depression.  Another aspect is (in America at least) there are many shrinks who want your money, and will prey on your unhappiness to get it, don't give 'em your money!

Whenever I feel unhappy I think of what Denis Leary once said;

Patient: "Doctor, I'm sooo unhaaapppy....."
Doctor: "Shut the fuck up you whiney maggot

Works for me!

Oh so that makes three of us, my apologies for not acknowledging your views.

Reading through these posts, it seems clear that nobody actually gives a damn about this person's mental health issues.  However, she chose to communicate this with the members of her site and she obviously felt comfortable in telling them all about herself in this way.  It wasn't intended to be read on any other forums but as it ended up here it has now become more of an issue than perhaps it should.

I can empathise with her (and Motoki) having had experience with this myself, the difference being, I wouldn't air it publicly like that and go into any great detail, after all, we've all got our own problems to worry about and shit happens.

She can try and justify taking payments for her "creations" all she likes, and I just wish I could have seen Pescado's face when he read that she asked her husband to hack his site, I bet he was grinning behind that waggly beard.

Whilst I feel for her on the mental health issues, that's just too much damn information.  Talk about setting yourself up for a fall.