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 Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 20:36 Post subject: How are you doin fellow Nfohumpers!? |
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Just wondering what the general wellbeing of the Nfohump community is. I must admit I get the impression that there is a disproportionate amount of mildly depressed/despondent peeps around. Which of course makes sense considering the majority demographic.
Personally I've suffered with dysthymia (chronic mild depression) for certain extended periods in my life, but things are finally looking up. It takes effort and time though to break the depressogenic habits.
My best advice for overcoming this all too common affliction is:
Exercise every day, just a 20 minute walk will do. This helps immensely, for a myriad of reasons both physiologically and psychologically.
Avoid using the internet for extended periods unless you have specific purpose, or isolate the majority of your use to set hours or days of the week. Just not turning on the PC helps with this.
Have social contact with someone other then family every day. Even if it's the local shop owner.
Do not sleep excessively and maintain good sleep hygiene.
Anyone got other tips/advice!?
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
"Faith without logic is the same as knowledge without understanding; meaningless"
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garus
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 20:50 Post subject: |
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My life at this point is kinda meh, nothing special but nothing to complain 
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 21:06 Post subject: |
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We need one more option in the poll -> Fucking stressed but still alive!
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 21:06 Post subject: |
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doing great, started with a new martial art and doing just fine in school.
i really agree with the first point. exercise changes a lot, i had some problems concentrating before but now i have no problems, i eat healthier, feel better and generally look better. If you have problems starting with any kind of exercise I can recommend martial arts, specifically brazilian jiujitsu. you become more lithe, stamina increases like crazy and you get to choke people.
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Przepraszam
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Meeh, my life is OK, nothing to complain about as well, there are some good and bad days, but then again I really have nothing to look forward these days, just living a zombie life
just torn betweeen what I should do in two years, after I graduate from college, I really want to go back to Poland but who knows what will happen in two years?
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 21:18 Post subject: |
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| besthijacker wrote: | then again I really have nothing to look forward these days, just living a zombie life
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Fuck I know that feeling, pretty soul destroying as it gradually chips away at your capacity to even enjoy things.
The best I can say is to just try mixing it up. I've always felt that when life truly feels worthless, then taking a risk is justified. I mean, you shouldn't fear death if you don't enjoy life. That has always been my attitude anyway. I kind of get aggressive when I feel depressed or stressed. Sort of like "Fuck you life/existance/god/universe etc. I ain't goin down without a fight. Give it your best shot!" and it really helps me work through it. By treating a bad mood as a challenge to be overcome, rather then an immutable part of who you are, makes you realise that you have control. You don't want to feel crap? Then do whatever it takes to feel better.
I have only recently started to truly enjoy life, before that just general existence and behaving humanely felt like such a chore. But I always intended to do whatever it took to feel better. As conceited as it is, my happiness is my ultimate priority in life, to the detriment of whatever gets in the way of it.
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
"Faith without logic is the same as knowledge without understanding; meaningless"
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 21:59 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | We need one more option in the poll -> Fucking stressed but still alive! |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 22:28 Post subject: |
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Yeah, exercise really helps, if I was fat and out of shape I'd REALLY be down right now.
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Frant
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Reciditive (reoccuring/cyclic) depression, social anxiety and a year of panic attacks that finally subsided.
I'm also torn between emotional and intellectual control. I have both qualities and they're constantly fighting each other.
I sometimes have the foolish dream of hooking up my brain to the computer so I can tweak my brain to work as I'd like it to work. Instead I'll have to spend years fighting my own ghosts and demons to change anything. Changing yourself is the hardest thing you can do, but if you succeed and become a better human you've proven yourself to be among the strongest. I'm still working on it.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 09:55 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | Reciditive (reoccuring/cyclic) depression, social anxiety and a year of panic attacks that finally subsided.
I'm also torn between emotional and intellectual control. I have both qualities and they're constantly fighting each other.
I sometimes have the foolish dream of hooking up my brain to the computer so I can tweak my brain to work as I'd like it to work. Instead I'll have to spend years fighting my own ghosts and demons to change anything. Changing yourself is the hardest thing you can do, but if you succeed and become a better human you've proven yourself to be among the strongest. I'm still working on it. |
I've always said that my life is in my controls, and in my controls only. I can do whatever with it: make it better or worse, and that usually works. I don't let anyone make up my mind, or try to influence me.
And that works pretty fine so far...
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 11:29 Post subject: |
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Life was fine and dandy up til today. Grandfather had a stroke and I'm in the middle of studying for finals week. Am not eating healthy or getting sleep or exercise.
Meh, this too shall pass.
Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly
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Cohen
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life really is what you make it. If you just sit in your comp chair all day on nforce and go to work when your not here, your not living your life imo.
I try to take risks when ever possible, I have fun with my money and make investments almost on a weekly basis in other business opportunities. Some succeed, some fail, thats life.
It's the uncontrollable variables in life that make it interesting.
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 17:23 Post subject: |
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| Cohen wrote: | | It's the uncontrollable variables in life that make it interesting. |
Everything is "uncontrollable"! Control is an illusion, you will NEVER be able to control anything.
You might affect things, but you cant control them.
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Im honestly the best i have ever been. Lovin life
| Jenni wrote: | | I drunk. I don't fucking care! |
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 18:58 Post subject: |
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| Photish wrote: | | Cohen wrote: | | It's the uncontrollable variables in life that make it interesting. |
Everything is "uncontrollable"! Control is an illusion, you will NEVER be able to control anything.
You might affect things, but you cant control them. |
Control is a relative term, such as when an individual controls something of defined limitation, like a bank account.
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 19:14 Post subject: |
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Meh, life sucks.
I'm considering visiting the doc to get some Anti-Depressivas so I dont end up driving the truck off a cliff.
I hate you.
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| Yondaime wrote: | I'm not exactly bored with my life, I love playing games and watching movies. This may sound very empty to many people but I am truly not interested in partaking in this whole "achievement" thing humanity has where you "should" get a good job with good money. I'd love to work in a job I love working at, but I have no true hobby or interest in any kind of career choice. When I look at the world, I feel disgust at all the corruption and cruelty, it makes me so disgusted that sometimes I don't even want to be apart of this world.
Don't get me wrong, I by no means want to kill myself, I like living, I'm not depressed but this stuff just disgusts me so horribly. I am not interested in finding someone to love, to marry, to have children. I have had girlfriends but I just don't feel comfortable being with someone. I guess I'm a natural loner. Sex is great but that's all it is for me.
So the only things I am passionate about are games and movies, that's all. Sometimes when I look at my life I can also see it as empty but then I realize that I'm just reacting to the social norm where everyone *should* have a healthy hobby, *should* have a rich social life, *should* drink and party every now and then, etc etc. I have friends whom I spend time with, so I'm no shut in. But I find myself more and more disinterested in the world.
I feel kind of out of touch with this world, I always have, this may sound stupid but when I watched Watchmen, I could kind of see myself in Dr Manhattan (obviously not the loneliness or the genialness but the whole part of him just slipping away from the world more and more). Anyone else feel this way? |
I don't like parties and heavy drinking. Not any more that is. I like to hang with friends drinking bear (not drowning yourself in it), or play pictionary. I'm a stay at home kinda guy 
There was time when I thought that I could change the world by doing sth beneficial, but then I started to think, became atheist and said: go fuck yourself world. I'm not going to get sth back from anyone for doing sth 'good'. People are scum and I have accepted it. It's not good, but I just don't care about it any more.
Before, when I was in highschool I would fall in depression because I wasn't like others, but now I know that I'm better then they are (and were even then) and don't care about that.
So your not alone
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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There was time when I thought that I could change the world by doing sth beneficial, but then I started to think, became atheist and said: go fuck yourself world. I'm not going to get sth back from anyone for doing sth 'good'. People are scum and I have accepted it. It's not good, but I just don't care about it any more.
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Get something back from anyone? That shouldn't be your motivation for doing something 'good' as you call it.
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Before, when I was in highschool I would fall in depression because I wasn't like others, but now I know that I'm better then they are (and were even then) and don't care about that.
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That is a really unhealthy attitude, one that I used to have. There is a reason they call it a superiority complex or narcissism, it's because it's dysfunctional, at least socially.
Sure you may have superior characteristics in some areas, but to automatically classify yourself as superior to everyone else is nothing but bigotry. You share this in common with those 'others' as you call them, those assholes and scum; except they express their insecurities in a more belligerent manner, which admittedly is far worse in a pragmatic sense.
I mean, I like you, I like your smarts and your witticisms. I like that you're a fellow scientist and understand highly complex physics. I will continue to like you regardless because as an internet acquaintance you're cool. But these personality traits you mention are commonly found in proper wankers.
I once held the same misanthropic 'disgust' with humanity you and Yondaime have. Back when I was a spotty, sexually frustrated and socially inept teenager. I continued to think this way until I was about 20, because it was something that had given me comfort in the past. I hope you realise that you're just as disgusting as everyone else, if you think you're different to the rest of humanity, that you're something special, you're delusional. I revel in humanity's flaws, I embrace them, because they make life something other then some bullshit fairy tale. I find myself smiling at peoples attempts to be something more then just an instinctual grovelling animal, just because they aspire to be more. You think that because humanity doesn't adhere to some undoubtedly flawed concept of some benevolent pacifistic perfect creature you have that it somehow doesn't deserve existence?
How do you think any intelligent being can become anything even close to resembling this ideal you have? By clawing it's way through this shit storm of existence that any living organism has to just to survive in such a hostile universe. 
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
"Faith without logic is the same as knowledge without understanding; meaningless"
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| AnimalMother wrote: | | dingo_d wrote: |
There was time when I thought that I could change the world by doing sth beneficial, but then I started to think, became atheist and said: go fuck yourself world. I'm not going to get sth back from anyone for doing sth 'good'. People are scum and I have accepted it. It's not good, but I just don't care about it any more.
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Get something back from anyone? That shouldn't be your motivation for doing something 'good' as you call it.
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Before, when I was in highschool I would fall in depression because I wasn't like others, but now I know that I'm better then they are (and were even then) and don't care about that.
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That is a really unhealthy attitude, one that I used to have. There is a reason they call it a superiority complex or narcissism, it's because it's dysfunctional, at least socially.
Sure you may have superior characteristics in some areas, but to automatically classify yourself as superior to everyone else is nothing but bigotry. You share this in common with those 'others' as you call them, those assholes and scum; except they express their insecurities in a more belligerent manner, which admittedly is far worse in a pragmatic sense.
I mean, I like you, I like your smarts and your witticisms. I like that you're a fellow scientist and understand highly complex physics. I will continue to like you regardless because as an internet acquaintance you're cool. But these personality traits you mention are commonly found in proper wankers.
I once held the same misanthropic 'disgust' with humanity you and Yondaime have. Back when I was a spotty, sexually frustrated and socially inept teenager. I continued to think this way until I was about 20, because it was something that had given me comfort in the past. I hope you realise that you're just as disgusting as everyone else, if you think you're different to the rest of humanity, that you're something special, you're delusional. I revel in humanity's flaws, I embrace them, because they make life something other then some bullshit fairy tale. I find myself smiling at peoples attempts to be something more then just an instinctual grovelling animal, just because they aspire to be more. You think that because humanity doesn't adhere to some undoubtedly flawed concept of some benevolent pacifistic perfect creature you have that it somehow doesn't deserve existence?
How do you think any intelligent being can become anything even close to resembling this ideal you have? By clawing it's way through this shit storm of existence that any living organism has to just to survive in such a hostile universe. |
Ok I may have missed few details I don't feel superior to my fellow physicist (my new friends). We have the same humour and same interests. To say that I am better than they are would be really stupid of me. I respect them, and I know that some are a lot smarter than me.
But those idiots in high school, and in middle school, I know that I'm better then they are Not because I'm a physicist or whatever, I just see the life they lead (the sheep like life of an average Joe who just tries to live the hedonistic he can in his limitations). I think that life where you don't question the world that surrounds you is a dull life. I guess that's because I'm studying physics and I see how the world around me operates.
I like to think that I'm not the only one who asks himself these questions (I know that there are people like that out there, but they are in minority I guess). I find that to be an exciting experience and I enjoy every time I get the Aha! effect
But that's who I am. I know that there are stupid people who don't care about anything, and I don't respect them. If one of them got hit by a car I won't feel sorry as I think he was only wasting air... Call it narcissistic but I just feel that way... And in RL I'm pretty neat guy and people really like me ^^ and that's only because of NFOrce. I have learned so much funny and sick things that have changed me
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 22:07 Post subject: |
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Feeling great as always. It's very rare for me not to be perfectly content, even if dealing with something shitty. It's just temporary after all, and I'm not really lacking for anything. That is not to say I don't want to improve things, but it's not an obsessive need that consumes my time completely nor does it make what I currently am and have seem worthless.
Yup, it's pretty sweet to be alive.
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Cohen
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@AM + DD + YD
It's difficult for me to keep my feelings on this subject inside, because my job requires me to be absolutely manipulative of people who are often very intelligent, and it is always an unbelievable strain on the mind. I have to manipulate the people who are hardest to manipulate, to try to think one step ahead of those that have made an incredible career and portfolio from being one step ahead of others.. otherwise my job isnt done properly and the group of people I work with lose out on a LOT of money. Sometimes I find its like trying to sell sand to an Egyptian 
I often find it very difficult to lead any kind of social life. I'm so used to putting on a false pretense "personality" and often find myself playing with peoples emotions when I'm not working, and I sometimes hate myself for it. I don't see myself as anyone special, or above the 'herd'.. but most of the time its hard not to dislike the mentality of these kinds of people... The sheeple.. I am sometimes a complete cunt to people and I do feel guilty regularly.
My GF once during an argument said I sound like Patrick Bateman when I spoke about society and traits of humans  but like AM said, sometimes I revel in how humans interact. Humans are, sadly, hypocritical by nature.
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manipulating is evil period
and don't call me dude in a reply!
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