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Brandon said: >I was diagnosed this past summer with a clinical depression and went on >a prescription medication for it.<snip>
It’s very nice to meet you, Brandon. I also suffer from clinical depression. I am 23 and was diagnosed when I was 15. I’ve been on and off medication since I was 18 and have yet to find the right combination. Some people find it easier than others because everyone is different biologically. I find it helpful to jot down my general feelings each day so as to keep track of how things are going. If you feel like talking/venting/etc..please dont hesitate to email me 
) – Jennifer —- members.aol.com/zuzubailie/deplink.html "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." – Nelson Mandela
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Eep…this is try #2 posting this. I did it the first time and it jumped way back up the list to be attached to an older article of the same title I first tried to use. Here goes. My apologies if this ends up showing up twice in a row due to some ppl’s newsreader configurations. If you’re going to respond, though, please respond to this one. — Well, I don’t believe I ever really properly introduced myself. My name is Brandon Houghton, which you of course did already know. I’m 19 and a junior at the State University of New York at Albany. I’m a local to this area; I’ve lived east of Albany near the MA border all my life. I still live at home with my parents and younger sister. I have a part-time job in addition to full-time classes, working as a C++ programmer with some web development on the side. (Needless to say, I’m studying computer science). Regardless of this, I’d much rather be playing music, and it’s thus that I’m presently trying to start a new band. I’ve done a few solo performances at coffeehouses (I play guitar and also sing some) and was with a band for a little while, which didn’t work out due to disagreement over a management contract (it left an awful lot of room for loss on our part). So, I’m taking it into my own hands to put together a new group of people with similar interests/ideas and go from there. It also happens that in addition to guitar I play saxophone, bass, and a bit of drums and piano. I was never much of a lyricist, though I enjoy writing poetry and both short fiction and nonfiction. I also love to read. The hands down most excellent books ever written are the _Dune_ books by Frank Herbert. Staggeringly magnificent and thought-provoking human commentary. If you haven’t read them yet, you ought to. I am very opinionated. Well, let’s be honest, I’m often a pain in the ass, but I won’t put you down for your opinion. I’m am open, though, to considering other people’s opinions fairly in terms of both my own and their point of view before I decide with finality what I think. This brings to light one of my biggest shortcomings: I’m rather judgemental. I need to chill a little bit and think about some things more before I come to conclusions. It’s something I’m trying very hard to work on. I was diagnosed this past summer with a clinical depression and went on a prescription medication for it. After taking it for a few months, I took myself off of it because while it helped my depression, it did so by dampening my feelings, so to speak…and it had that effect on all of them. I was sort of emotionally nonchalant and middle-of-the-road about everything. As someone who is accustomed to feeling just about everything very powerfully and deeply, this was highly disconcerting. After coming off the medication I really haven’t had any more depression issues (yet), but it’s become a degree harder to hold my concentration – a problem I was having while I was depressed, so I suppose I’ve only partially reverted. I’ve been considering St. John’s Wort as an alternative to the medication I was on before. I have no idea if it will have the same effect on me. As of yet I haven’t really posted all that much because as a newcomer and someone who has a great deal of difficulty finding the solution to my own loneliness, I haven’t really felt I have the right to participate actively here. I still don’t, but I am here reading everything that everyone writes. I’m still not certain that this is the right place for me to be, either, but I’m trying to figure it out. I’m at a very confusing point in my life right now, and nothing has been very clear lately, so please take me with a grain of salt as I stumble around. I appreciate the openness that everyone has showed me since I first showed my face. Brandon — ________ Here come the law _____|______|_____ Gonna break down the door / Gonna carry me away once more | Dr. Rock | Never, Never, I never want it anymore __________________/ Gotta get away from this stone cold floor Crazy, stone cold crazy, y’know… - Queen `,———————— Brandon T. Houghton ———————–,’ @}-`-,— —,-’-{@
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Brandon T. Houghton wrote: > Eep…this is try #2 posting this. I did it the first time and it jumped > way back up the list to be attached to an older article of the same > title I first tried to use. Here goes. My apologies if this ends up > showing up twice in a row due to some ppl’s newsreader configurations. > If you’re going to respond, though, please respond to this one. > —
Too late! I already responded to the other one! <laugh> Oh, and I forgot to mention in the other one that I’ve read all the "Dune" books and loved them! Hugs, Jae "Rivers belong where they can ramble…. Eagles belong where they can fly…. I’ve got to be….. Where my spirit can run free."
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