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ceilingFANBOY
08/31/09

In reply to Depressed Sad Sacks Smarter Than Shiny Happy People
We aren't depressed. We are just in angst about our meaningless existence. Don't worry, though. We will at some time come to terms with our meaningless existence and find a way to be OK with it and be content with merely existing.
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Smitros
08/29/09

In reply to Depressed Sad Sacks Smarter Than Shiny Happy People
I once experienced a gazebo effect. It felt as if I had swallowed a hexagonal windowless structure in the middle of a park.
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Trai_Dep
08/29/09

In reply to Depressed Sad Sacks Smarter Than Shiny Happy People
With all of the impotent rage, sputtering and persecution complexes that I see Teh Stoopid displaying on Tea Bagging get-togethers and town hall meetings, they don't seem too happy to me.
Unless Scientific American is referring to a different set of stupid.
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Bill Zilla
08/29/09

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Knowing I'm smarter than everyone else makes me happy. Which makes me dumber. Which makes me sad. Which makes me smarter. Thanks!
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billybobnyc
08/29/09

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Lets's see - the economy is in the tank, people have no jobs and no prospects for new ones. The American Dream - we were told all our lives that if we work hard and get an education , we will be fine. Not true anymore!
Depressed? Now, why should anyone be depressed?
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
08/29/09

@billybobnyc:

Pretty soon we're going to be an entire country filled with fucking geniuses.
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labyrinthine IS DOING THIS
08/29/09

In reply to Depressed Sad Sacks Smarter Than Shiny Happy People
hmm. I don't know...the truly clinically depressed, yes. the "oh I feel blue, give me a pill so I feel better!" kind...not so much.

but I also think the truly clinically depressed are more likely to stay depressed *because* they're ("we're", being one of them) constantly trying to think themselves/ourselves out of it, and it ends up being a vicious downward spiral of "I'm smarter than this, why can't I figure out how to stop being depressed?" when really, there's no thinking yourself out of a chemical imbalance. drugs + therapy + working on yourself + eventually getting off the drugs, if that's what's right for you on an individual level = hopefully, some semblance of success.
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