koranek wrote:It's true that allowing yourself to be depressed can reinforce depression. I'm not suggesting that. On the other hand, allowing yourself to grieve a loss, and allowing those feelings in a conscious way, and even for a specific period of time, can give you more control over the possible long term depression that sometimes follows difficult times in your life.arachnaut wrote: I don't know if this is good advice. When the economy collapsed a few years ago and my future income pool dropped by more than half I did this. I thought about working at Fry's as a store greeter - at least I could buy some hardware for cheap. No one would hire an ex-geek who hadn't worked in 10 years or knew Juice from Java, even if they still quote lines of code from the BSD TCP/IP kernel.
The trouble is that it's too easy to sink into depression - you're the only one who will pull you out of that. It took me a long time to get out of that rut.
Eventually I started working on some ways to sell things and make audio stuff and that got me through it.
You are also right about being in this by yourself. That's why it's good to have support, friends that can give you a different perspective, or a therapist who can help you through things.
Or beats could just fuck some whores and be done with it. That'll set him right.
the price? will. equal. FAIL. 
