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Johntm
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 Message 73 of 90
10 April 2010 at 7:59am | IP Logged 
cordelia0507 wrote:
   And even if they really were depressed, they wouldn't know the concept, or have access to therapists or psychiatrists to diagnose them.


Please, depression is not some disease that needs diagnosis. It's just a time in your life when you feel bad. They know the concept, everyone can understand having a crappy day.

lynxrunner wrote:
Racism extends
beyond calling someone an ethnic slur.
This. I use ethnic slurs (in jest, of course) with my friends who aren't the same race as me, and it doesn't make me racist. I'm not. I don't care if people call me a honky or gringo, I'll just laugh at them. I only do that around close friends who have good senses of humor though. However, I hate people who enforce stereotypes of their race (like black kids at my school who walk around with their pants sagging and shouting random lines from crappy rap songs).
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 Message 74 of 90
10 April 2010 at 8:03am | IP Logged 
cordelia0507 wrote:
Sure the developing world is full of suffering.

But doesn't it then strike you as a little bit self-centred to sit in a neated house, with your own car, fully fed and with a healthy bank balance and claim that you are depressed and have a hard life?
I don't see it as self-centered, if they worked for it and earned it. I hate trust-fund babies who are born into money and blow it all.
If I ever hit it rich I would give back, but rich people aren't obligated to, it's their money.

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Also, there are people in China (for example), South America and so on who actually rate themselves as happier than what successful people in the industrial world rate themselves at. This is a well known phenomenon. I don't know precisely why this is, but the articles I read suggest that they find joy in their families, religion or day-to-day events.


This is because money != happiness. All of us would love to be rich, but having the money doesn't mean being happy.
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 Message 75 of 90
10 April 2010 at 8:36am | IP Logged 
satisfaction is all relative, it depends on a persons views and expectations. For Instance all these celebrities who buy insanely expensive versions jewelry/ accessories / clothes / everything when they could just live like normal human beings and but their money to better use, If you look past the brainwashing that capitalism has disseminated worldwide it doesn't make a difference if you're in a lamborghini or a ford mondeo they're both cars (not that I want a ford mondeo) I was just giving an example. This is a language forum though so its best not to pursue this topic any further (and no im not a communist im just against consumerism).
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 Message 76 of 90
10 April 2010 at 10:49am | IP Logged 
I have documented roots going to Sweden from both my mother's and my father's sides, but people still don't consider me Germanic just because I happen to speak what basically amounts to an Asiatic language as a first language.

Minkäs teet *olan kohautus*

Incidentally, some say Finnish is related to Korean. Maybe the noble 한국사람 will accept me as one of theirs?

Edited by Kounotori on 10 April 2010 at 10:50am
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 Message 77 of 90
10 April 2010 at 9:26pm | IP Logged 
Johntm wrote:
Please, depression is not some disease that needs diagnosis. It's just a time in your life when you feel bad. They know the concept, everyone can understand having a crappy day.


This.
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 Message 78 of 90
10 April 2010 at 11:30pm | IP Logged 
WortDrauf wrote:
Johntm wrote:
Please, depression is not some disease that needs diagnosis. It's just a time in your life when you feel bad. They know the concept, everyone can understand having a crappy day.


This.


http://uhs.berkeley.edu/lookforthesigns/clinicaldepression.s html

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Clinical depression is not a sign of personal weakness, or a condition that can be willed away. Clinically depressed people cannot "pull themselves together" and get better. In fact, clinical depression often interferes with a person's ability or wish to get help. Clinical depression is a serious illness that lasts for weeks, months and sometimes years. It may even influence someone to contemplate or attempt suicide.


Depression can last years, damage your life and hurt your loved ones, and even lead to suicide, but I guess it's just a time in your life when you feel bad. So no point in going to the doctor to get diagnosed, and, y'know, help. It's just a time in your life when you feel bad.
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 Message 79 of 90
11 April 2010 at 3:30am | IP Logged 
Kounotori wrote:
I have documented roots going to Sweden from both my mother's and my father's sides, but people still don't consider me Germanic just because I happen to speak what basically amounts to an Asiatic language as a first language.

Minkäs teet *olan kohautus*

Incidentally, some say Finnish is related to Korean. Maybe the noble 한국사람 will accept me as one of theirs?

I see similarities between Korean and Finnish grammars, but I think them being related is very far-fetched, though.

But I'll accept you (and other people) always, as fellow human beings. :)

Edited by chucknorrisman on 11 April 2010 at 3:31am
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 Message 80 of 90
11 April 2010 at 3:51am | IP Logged 
Kounotori wrote:
WortDrauf wrote:
Johntm wrote:
Please, depression is not some disease that needs diagnosis. It's just a time in your life when you feel bad. They know the concept, everyone can understand having a crappy day.


This.


http://uhs.berkeley.edu/lookforthesigns/clinicaldepression.s html

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Clinical depression is not a sign of personal weakness, or a condition that can be willed away. Clinically depressed people cannot "pull themselves together" and get better. In fact, clinical depression often interferes with a person's ability or wish to get help. Clinical depression is a serious illness that lasts for weeks, months and sometimes years. It may even influence someone to contemplate or attempt suicide.


Depression can last years, damage your life and hurt your loved ones, and even lead to suicide, but I guess it's just a time in your life when you feel bad. So no point in going to the doctor to get diagnosed, and, y'know, help. It's just a time in your life when you feel bad.



If you're depressed, something in your life is missing or wrong. Taking drugs to try and suppress or ignore it is futile and pitiful. I don't see the point in living in sedation, work the problem out and move on; pain is part of life.


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