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Hi, my story is this. One of four children, low-income, single-mother family. I showed brightness at an early age, out-performing my entire K-8 school. No friends to speak of, really, ostracized and angry very early on (no father probably contributed to that anger and sense of victimization). Made i...

Hello Matt, I second the above advice. We humans are such curious animals, trying to silence our inner chatterboxes as best we can, pouring ourselves into our work, into others, or in the case of we depressed especially, pouring all our internal energy back into ourselves, in an endless and circular...

Sorry to hear all that S-Coff. Not sure I have any solutions to offer you. There seems to be only one possible way to get through depression, in a general sense--and that is, very slowly, with incremental and painstaking progress. A lot of what's written in pop psychiatry emphasizes the necessity of...

Thank you all for the welcoming responses. Sorry, drifted away from this forum, as I was feeling a bit upbeat for a month or so there...but here I am, back again.

Hello, I'm 27 years old, white male, miserable most of the time. Started off as a very precocious child, very awkward, angry, unhappy, and ostracized. HAve grown into an extremely indecisive, uncertain, disengaged man, and despite all that, I was managing to lead some kind of an interesting life unt...