I wanted to be a teacher, vet, singer, actress, mermaid, and have a husband who was also famous. What I want to be now is a Aninal Health Technologist which is what I’m going to a small uni for uni in like 3 ish years
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W-what?
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Nah, I get the examination question paper marker thing. I always wanted to prove people wrong and just put a giant cross there 
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From the perspective of a novelist, you should always give your reader a hint at important information. If it comes out of nowhere it feels like you’ve just made it up for the sake of having something surprising, and it detracts from your story. A reader should be able to look back at your writing and go, “Oh! So thats what that meant!” and put the pieces together for themselves. My favorite books are the ones you have to read twice; once where you hardly even notice the clues, and the second where you see them all and it blows your mind that you didn’t get it the first time.
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Do you think you’re better off alone?
- Yes
- No
- Talk to me. Oooooohhh. Talk to me.
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I answered “yes” not because of any sad reason, I’m just happier on my own. I love being with my friends, but I also really love my “me” time. And life would be much less complicated without roommates! lol.
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That’s fair enough…
I just realised I made it not show who votes so I’ll never know who knows the song and who doesn’t 
I hate being alone yet at the same time I love my alone time but I love attention 
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trance music is gr8 winkwink won’t spoil anything tho
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I know the song.
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Honest opinion. I’m depressed (yay! 
) Should I:
- Stay alone in my room
- Cry
- Overanalyze
- Listen to sad songs
- Think about what a space I am
- Maybe talk about it?
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Especially pming me
*waste of space
i see it like this (and this is for ya’ll)
some of the alternatives are temporary solutions: staying in your room for a little while and listening to sad music can help you shed some tears and cry out, but isolating yourself for a longer time will eventually make you over analyze everything, which most likely will give you unpleasant and unwanted thoughts. eventually, a mountain of feelings that you can’t control will rise and make you feel like a big mess. lastly, you will think “what the hell am i supposed to do?”
the long term solution: talk to someone, someone you trust, someone who understand you and won’t judge. someone who is willing to be by your side, in other words. sometimes it feels like mission impossible, but any mission can be completed.
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also, strength hugs to ya’ll!
Thank you, but… I can’t handle it anymore…
Here’s the thing. I have a collection of mental illnesses, multiple of which cause depression, which includes Major Depressive Disorder.
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If you are sad, then staying in your room and crying it out will make you feel better. Holding things in always, always makes it worse. The release will help you. It may not make you completely happy, but you will feel better. You’ll also have to think about your situation (not over-analyze, though!) and come up with some long-term solutions, as well as short-term self care.
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If you are depressed, that’s not going to help you. Depression is a chemical imbalance. What you need to do is talk to someone you trust and ask them for help (if not in charge of your own healthcare), and/or seek professional help (if you are in charge of your own healthcare). Likely, they’ll want to put you on an SSRI to help with the imbalance, and recommend therapy. I also recommend therapy and medication, they make a whole wide world of difference. It can be really scary to start this process, but eventually you realize it’s not a big deal. Also, there’s nothing scarier than just staying depressed.
So if you are depressed, talk to someone about it, and consider professional help. After that, you can go back to everything in the sad step, because then it will actually be useful. If you are sad, then cry it out, then work with people you trust on a care plan.
Note that there is nothing wrong with being either sad or depressed. Depression is an illness just like a cold is an illness, and it’s not something you can control having. Being sad isn’t a lesser form of depression, it’s a whole other thing entirely. So if you realize you are sad, don’t feel like that means your feelings aren’t valid and you aren’t in real pain, because you are. If you realize you are depressed, there is nothing to be ashamed of.
Especially if you feel you can’t cope on your own anymore, it’s time to reach out for help. You deserve better than being miserable - and if you don’t feel that’s true, that’s because your emotional state is lying to you. You do deserve better. We all do.
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Carrying heavy emotions for a long time will take a toll on you eventually and thus drain you out, both physically and mentally. That is when you hit rock bottom, when you have no other choice but to realize that you don’t have any control over yourself. That’s how it was for me when I had to battle several addictions alongside depression. You suppress your feelings for a long time until you just can’t do it anymore. It’s like you’re constantly gasping for breath, like a fish on land. When you’re this fish, all you can think about is that you won’t ever be able to get back to the water - the place where you can breathe. Someone you trust has to lead you there, guide you in form of giving support and being understanding.
Someone has to give you the time to let you express and open up about yourself, to be there and listen and give advice. Talking to someone - especially someone professional who understands the problem and can give the right tools - will open doors for you, if you’re willing to work with yourself along the way. It’s important to find the key to what caused you to feel the way you do, and together work through that to get a solution. It can be hard and seem impossible, but it’s a part of the process. The first steps are always the most difficult ones, but once you overstep them, it’ll be easier to tackle problems and feelings in general.
And as Gwen already mentioned: being depressed and sad is nothing to be ashamed of. Neither is it something that should make you feel abnormal or weak, because you’re anything but that. 
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I do have depression. I have taken about 7 tests already, and each time, my score gets a little higher…
But who is that someone? I have nobody, everyone tells me it’s up to me to get better.