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"Depression"

This is a serious convo by the way. I've got a friend who is really depresed. They've got problems at home (nothing extremely serious just problems) and is just really not happy with themself resulting in them feeling like crap most of the time. They talk to me about it all the time but i am the only one who knows. I dont want to say anything to anyone because of the whole "dont' tell anyone" promise, but i really am worried about them.

So any ideas on what i could say/do/suggest to them would be excellent and i would be extremely grateful.

Golf is happenin', brothers.

He was talking about golf?

Black Glove thats the most beautiful discription of golf ever. What ever yours on i want some.

Blacky, I think if I nicked you I would have the best drugs bust in the history of Cambridge police!

At first light, guide the depressed one to the dew-brushed fairways, the yellow Mr.Men-shaped bunkers, the shaven greens, the thickets, the nameless coppices, the little white ball on the emerald turf, the clippyclop of Titleist in cup, the fresh air, the raw power of a titanium Driver in the palms, the sweet connection, the arcing flight of a 7-iron, the life-affirming cark of crow... introduce the munter to golf.

...you just don't understand Goatboy, Plath understood my pain.

Goatboy wrote:
> Ask him if he's a teenager.
> If he says, nod sagely and say "Thought so" and give him a
> nu-metal CD.
> I recommend the one that has a song called "Break Stuff"
> on.

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Also, you may with to recommend that he writes pisspoor poetry utilising words like "abyss" "engulf" "salty tides of sadness cascade my visage" and "alone".
Possibly he may wish to slash at himself feebly in order to express his inner torment and be wan and uninteresting.
Or he/she may even wish to embrace the gothic writings of Mary Shelly, Bram Stoker and HP Lovecraft in an attempt to display his/her alienation with the harsh cruel world around.

Lawrence wrote:
> The Hibernator wrote:
> I don't know hold you are. But offer 'em a pint.
>
>
> hold???

Whoopsie - Editing now...

well i think you should tell someone else dont think your mate should have told you not to tell ! do you want to be ill ! i cared for my mum at home before she died would have been more depressed if nobody knew what it was doing to me !all his mates is what he needs !

Smiling works, too.

Inside, you can feel as miserable as you like, but when you go out and are around people - any people - it helps to try and put on a brave, happy face.

Just a little smile will do.

Smile at someone and they WILL smile back - it's amazing how human's work like that! Like when you see someone yawn, and you can't stop. And when you see it done, you'll start laughing. It's funny.

I don't FEEL happy a lot of the time now, for some reason(s), but whenever I'm at work or somewhere, it may be because I'm so self-contious or what, but I try to smile a lot and not let it show.

If it's not their business to know I'm unhappy, why should they need to know?

:D