Saturday, October 25, 2008

Symptoms of Depression

Check if present:

you can’t sleep enough or you sleep too much (YEP)
you can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult (YEP)
you feel worthless and hopeless (YEP)
you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try (YEP... I must admit that I cannot try too hard)
you have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating (NOPE)
you are constantly irritated or become enraged even at small things – and this is new for you (YEP, but maybe it's not so new for me)
you have thoughts that life is not worth living, or have a plan for how you would end it (Seek help immediately if this is the case) --> NOPE in the sense that I'm having suicidal thoughts (that was the leitmotiv of my teenage years, though, but yes I do think that life is not worth living realizing that we could have the money to feed every child who is dying from starvation in the world but we prefer giving them to the banks because the common line of reasoning, the irrational rationality of this folly we call human society tells us that we are investing on banks, while we are wasting on starving kids. So... all those images of starving children in the news programme during dinner... what's the use of those images? What's the use of all the void rhetoric to sensibilize people and let people know when we know they have to starve in order to let other people earn their millionth million of euros). I'm disgusted, that's what I am. And yep, I do fear I suffer from depression, but you know... I'm going through this without alcohol or drugs or antidepressants. Maybe that's why I feel I'm 900 years old.

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