Posted by TheMojoPin at dialup-209.244.208.34.dial1.washington2.level3.net on March 08, 2002 at 23:04:30:
In Reply to: and also... posted by mr rob on March 08, 2002 at 22:10:11:
I've been clinically diagnosed as "depressed" once when I was 13 and again when I was 15. I considered suicide when I was 14 over some really, REALLY inane bullshit (ie-much like "brodiebruce," I was mentally frozen by the social rejection at the hands of a few of my so-called "peers"...the "breaking point" was when I was overtly distressed because somebody pulled a chair out from under me in the lunchroom and everyone laughed. Laughed SO hard.) but instead I bit the bullet, effectively "got over it," focused on the many, MANY positive aspects of my life, quashed as much of the negative as possible, and went to have a exuberantly happy time for the rest of my 7 years of school. Suicide is only an option for the weak and the coddled and the childish, and I will have no time for it. Quit chiding them for their flagrant acceptance of their own inadequacy and show some "tough" love for once in your life.
-TMP