I’m left wondering how genuine these posts are. everyone on the suicideproject is run by their emotions (myself included), and I’m wondering how a depressed man/woman can think clearly enough to type as much as everyone here has, or if everything here is typed simply out of angst, rendering it all meaningless.
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I’d say it depends on the person that posts and their current situation. Plus, you get posts born out of a huge variety of emotions (including angst), so you can’t really pinpoint a general scenario.
When you imply posts are not genuine tho, do you mean people flat out lying, or just distorted facts due to emotion? i’m asking because there’s always several sides to every story, regardless of how objective a person tries to be. I prefer to think that regardless of the authenticity or veracity of the posts, people that takes the time to write their situations do need some help in one way or another (even if it’s just attention), so you are still helping by commenting on someone’s post even if it’s not 100% accurate.
In my personal case, most of my posts are me just venting, but i do try to take an objective approach because otherwise, i’m not fooling anyone but myself, and any advice that i might get would be sort of useless (if i’m not being accurate). I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on my life and to come to terms with my situation tho, so i guess that’s why i try to always keep that in mind.
By not genuine, i don’t mean that the people are lying or distorting facts. I don’t remember what i meant. i posted this at about 2 or 3 am, having woke up at 6:30 am.
I find this post insulting and trollish.
As i do yours
depressions doesn t make u crazy;)
Not what i meant, but okay.
I’m sorry but your comment made me crack up. I could just hear the frustration in your voice in that comment. Thank you for clarifying your un trollish ways. We get some really upsetting trolls around here at times who start out threads that tend to take a sharp curve into abuse fairly quickly. It typically starts with some concern..and quickly falls off the tracks from there.
Glad to hear you aren’t one of them. Sorry we all went of the deep end on this, blame it on the holidays, or the alcohol. Or both. Or neither. here have a rare Hazy happy face: -) although they have been a little too common lately, I might stop give them out after today.
Depression is a spectrum. Some people are better writers. This place is about as genuine as you can get.
Not everyone here is depressed. It is a fallacy that there is an automatic connection between suicidality and depression. However, depression rarely affects a person’s ability to think, communicate, etc. It might make a person too weary or hopeless to bother, but it doesn’t make them less intelligent. People with depression hold jobs, raise families, write books and music, create beautiful works of art, work in scientific fields, and serve their country.
A poor choice of words. i meant someone with a negative mentality or who’s just emotional (That doesn’t sound right either)
Why does it matter? We’re all here for the same thing at the end of the day: some kind of support and understanding. I’m depressed but I only come here to ***** and pass time. I know realistically nobody can help me.
“realistically nobody can help me”
I disagree. I think there are a million million people that could help you. Of course, you can choose to not allow it.
Interesting. If this is a troll what a rare brilliant one you are. However I’m going to go with it just being a not well thought out comment. I do have my troll hammer at the ready.
To answer this: all my comments and post come from a clear head. Especially when I’m going to put a gun in my mouth. Suicide does not descriminate based on ability to write a coherent sentence so it follows that many here are amazing writers. There are also musicians and artists. Mathematicians, stay at home mom’s a crescent moon and a fairy light that lives in a moss garden with 7 blue bumble bees. They are all unique as depression and it’s lunitic cousin mania, are equal opportunity menaces.
Just picturing a fairy light in a moss garden with seven blue bumblebees made me feel better.
I felt a little sanity writing that thus morning.
honestly, i was generalizing my own thoughts as applying to everyone who’s depressed and/or suicidal (i’m a lot more self-centered than i was before, and miles dumber as well). The worst part of this is the fact that i’ve lost my ability to think at all, which is why this comment sounds so ill-though out; because it literally is. And the assumption of so many that i’m a troll-i mean come on.
Something’s been bugging me for a while:
You can think clearly? are you depressed at all? And this last one may sound intrusive, but what’s your situation like?
I understand. I don’t talk about how I feel a whole heck of a lot here. I find comfort in reading how others feel and don’t really feel the need to contribute how I feel all that much. I have very clear thoughts, most people who are depressed do. The only time I’m not clear is when I swing into mania that I’m unable to direct in any sort of constructive way. Then things get really confusing and I don’t function all that well. Being here helps with that a great deal as I am able to channel how I am feeling by reading other peoples posts. It is an amazingly supportive community. I hope that helps explain my situation.
You have to experience the Truth about your Life!
Before you can experience the Life the Truth has to offer!!
Sounds like a quote with a happy ending, but in reality, as soon as you discover how fucked we are as a species, you’re experience will be the equivalent to that of everyone on here’s (i’m assuming that no one here’s having any fun).