Confessional---Anything To Get Off Your Chest?

[HappyGilmore]

I can't really see a doctor or therapist.  No money.  I'd have money if I wasn't paying all the bills.  The little bit I have left after bills don't even cover an office visit to a doctor.  And I have no friends to turn to.  I'm just a sad depressed little man and I don't have anyone to turn to.

Most cities have low-priced clinics you can visit.  I visited one in Vegas when I had no money or insurance to get a prescription for antidepressants.  I am not a doctor and I'm not diagnosing you as suffering from depression, but your story does somewhat remind me of my own. 

I've been depressed.  Problem is, it'd depend on what anti-depressants I get prescribed.  I've gone through a pill addiction.  Alcohol addiction.  Cocaine, etc.

I found that when it comes to women, being too "nice"  wasn't the way to go. Women I learned in most cases seemed to think of that as me sucking up trying to get close to them and they were probably right at that time. Now I'd be far more likely to joke and kid around with a woman and I found once I started kidding around and teasing, the women seemed to take to me better because I was engaging them in conversation and not merely looking to flatter, suck-up and get with them and just seeming like someone desperately seeking attention. By not caring whether they would go for me or not and just kidding around, it tended to perk their interest a lot more. Well that's my experience anyways.

As to your more immediate concern, I think Rev's advice is top notch. I'm sure others out there are going through the same or have been through the same. Important to know you're not alone. I had a friend who found religion helped him quit smoking....that might be even be another option to consider...at least starting to talk to someone, especially someone with training to help you.

I can flirt to a degree.  But it's now at the point where I even start talking to women and they just point and laugh in my face.  So, eh.  I'm over it. 

[Rev. Powell]

I've been depressed.  Problem is, it'd depend on what antidepressants I get prescribed.  I've gone through a pill addiction.  Alcohol addiction.  Cocaine, etc.

Believe me, that's not an issue.  Prozac and other antidepressants don't get you high, there's no reason to take them recreationally.  If you're clinically depressed they just make you feel more normal.  They're not at all like cocaine, etc. which just make you very good for a short time, then bad thereafter.  You just take them everyday to feel more on an even keel.

[HappyGilmore]

I've been depressed.  Problem is, it'd depend on what antidepressants I get prescribed.  I've gone through a pill addiction.  Alcohol addiction.  Cocaine, etc.

Believe me, that's not an issue.  Prozac and other antidepressants don't get you high, there's no reason to take them recreationally.  If you're clinically depressed they just make you feel more normal.  They're not at all like cocaine, etc. which just make you very good for a short time, then bad thereafter.  You just take them everyday to feel more on an even keel.

I gotta see a doctor then.  Cause I'm two steps from running into a wall.  I dunno if it's genetic, but apparently Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder and Addiction run rampant in my family.  My dad, his brother, a cousin of mine, a few others all had em.  I dunno.  I see shows like Intervention and I'm not too far off.

[ER]

I think I'm getting tired of my wedding ring. (Not a metaphor, I mean tired of this particular ring.) It's silver and has an emerald, which represents the full moon and a forest; custom-designed. It's beautiful and I love it, but I been looking at it every day for ten years. and I keep thinking despite a wedding ring being forever....well.

[indianasmith]

I haven't worn my wedding ring in 25 years or more.
It was making my finger break out badly!  Not even sure where it is now . . .

[Allhallowsday]

When my sister-in-law died, she had seven cats living in her house.  Teddy was the oldest or nearly (16) and had a droopy mouth because of a tumor in his jaw.  I instructed the Popcorn Park people to put him down.  I always regretted not stroking him and telling him that he was loved.  He had been a mean cat that over time turned and became quite friendly with the largest dagger-like claws ever which you'd feel every time he climbed into your lap. 

[JaseSF]

I've been pretty much hardly even using the internet anymore these last few years really aside from youtube, Netflix, prime, etc....maybe it's time to consider making a return though....Just really got disenchanted with the Net primarily to the incessant boredom and depression social media tended to cause me...I prefer places like this really.

[RCMerchant]

Sometimes I think a lot about when I was young and got in fights.
I can't even walk 2 blocks to the store anymore.

[RCMerchant]

I've been pretty much hardly even using the internet anymore these last few years really aside from youtube, Netflix, prime, etc....maybe it's time to consider making a return though....Just really got disenchanted with the Net primarily to the incessant boredom and depression social media tended to cause me...I prefer places like this really.

Welcome back!!!  
This place helps me from going crazy. Only social media I do.

[Rev. Powell]

I've been pretty much hardly even using the internet anymore these last few years really aside from youtube, Netflix, prime, etc....maybe it's time to consider making a return though....Just really got disenchanted with the Net primarily to the incessant boredom and depression social media tended to cause me...I prefer places like this really.

This kind of community is hard to match. Just stay away from the political threads. It's like listening to your family arguing on Thanksgiving.

[Trevor]

I've been pretty much hardly even using the internet anymore these last few years really aside from youtube, Netflix, prime, etc....maybe it's time to consider making a return though....Just really got disenchanted with the Net primarily to the incessant boredom and depression social media tended to cause me...I prefer places like this really.

Yo Jase welcome back 

[ER]

Almost every night I sleep with a married man. 

[Allhallowsday]

Almost every night I sleep with a married man. 

Just don't tell your husband. 

[ER]

Almost every night I sleep with a married man. 

Just don't tell your husband. 

;-)

[ER]

I've always thought Grey Poupon is a disgusting name.