Teen having mid-life crisis.

[TStoneMBD]

are you talking about my avatar? cause if youre talking about my post i was serious. im not a doctor though.

[Python49]

It certainly cannot buy happiness.

Sure it can. Buy a year supply of prozac.

My advice is to find something in your life in which you can strive to be successful at but which will not financially "improve" your life. Take up a sport, meet some new people, learn to do something new. I'm just a teenager and I dont play for high stakes at all, but I love poker. And I'm determined to keep doing well in school and at basketball because I realize that even if I become a world class poker player(which i wont), I would hate life if that was all there was.

[KaneKungFu123]

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I also recently had my right leg amputated (below knee) which I'm sure can't help my frame of mind.

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There goes my youth soccor recomendation. J/K

Sorry about that. Cant change the past though. Plenty of things to do in the world and lots of girls wanting to get [censored].

Bad beats are a bitch, move on.

take a trip outside the US. Go to Costa Rica. Eat alot of spicy food and [censored] some latina girls or go to Rome and drop Acid somewhere cool.

live it up. youll have plenty of time to be depressed when you are dead.

sincerely,
KKF

[KaneKungFu123]

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seriously consider finding a doctor to prescribe you anti-depressants. you sound like you need them.

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or he could get laid and start living his life and let his free will and actions cure his depression.

[KaneKungFu123]

no wonder you are depressed. the advice in this thread really sucks. youre in a world full of donks.

check this out, though:

[Fitz]

I recognize your symptons very well; I've seen them up close for quite some time in the love of my life. She is brilliant, educated and can literally do anything she puts her mind to. She has also tried to kill herself more times than I can count. When the depression sets in on her, it is a terrible thing to watch; I can't imagine what it is like for her. She is currently on her meds and doing pretty well.

You sound like a very bright guy, but you can't think your way out of this one. You need help. Get to a doctor and get regulated. There are meds they can give you that will not make you a zombie. Also, having a serious medical issue like an amputation would cause issues for any of us. Don't minimize what is happening to you, and get the help that can need.

Hang in there, and if you want to talk off line, drop me a message.

Good luck,

Fitz

[VoraciousReader]

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I also recently had my right leg amputated (below knee) which I'm sure can't help my frame of mind. Actually, I was taken out of school during the last part of my Jr. year because I was "suicidally depressed"...I dunno, on paper it seems like my life should be extremely happy, but I'm honestly very unfulfilled. Is this all there is? Making money, eating nice food every night, and staying out late?.....please tell me there's more.

I'm sorry in advance for the rambling, but this seems pretty bad. Lacking desire to achieve in the future can pretty much say lacking the desire to live. Which certainly isn't +EV. My parents want me to see a doctor, but I honestly feel like I can overcome anything myself.....I just lack desire to.

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Please. Listen to your parents.

Depression is an insidious illness because it convinces the victim that there is no hope of a cure. Or there is no point in curing it because it just won't make much difference. Or that he/she could really shake it off if they would just buck up and do it.

Sound familiar? Depression can be soul-killing, and it affects how you perceive everything around you. (And men are much less likely to seek help for it than women are because, on the off-chance they admit that they feel bad, everyone tells them to "tough it out" "get a life" or "just get their sh!t together".)

What you are describing does not sound like normal teen angst. And it is certainly not normal to have part of a limb amputated.

Trust me, you CAN beat this. But you can not beat this without help. That is the depression talking, telling you that you are worthless, lazy, and unmotivated and that it's your fault that you just don't "get over it." It is <font color="red">not</font> your fault. You can not just "decide" to get better from depression, any more than you can just "decide" to get better from the flu.

Right now, you are going out and partying at night and sleeping all day and buying things because you are trying to drown out the voice that is telling you that you are in horrible pain. (I know that sleeping all day and partying all night and buying expensive stuff sounds like an adolescent fantasy, but 18 year-olds who are living that way because they truly enjoy it have energy to spare, healthy appetites, and don't get diagnosed as suicidally depressed.)

To answer your question: is there more? Yes. There is joy and beauty and love and great sex. There are fantastic memories to be made and a world full of incredible places to see. (Did I mention great sex?) There is the satisfaction of achievement (something it sounds like you are experienced in.) Depending on your spiritual beliefs, there is enlightenment, there is a furthering of your relationship with God, there is the peace of finding out what you were truly intended to do with your life. There is service to others, there is the love of your family, the chance to make the world a better place. (And trust me, no high school senior has truly experienced Great Sex...)

You can't see any of that now because you are depressed. But it is there. Please start seeing a doctor right away.

I know a lot about this from personal experience. You may PM me if you wish and I will be happy to listen to you or talk with you about some of my experiences (not the Great Sex, though, some things you will have to find out on your own...er...you know what I mean) [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Or try here: link
Amanda

[KaneKungFu123]

how you doing amanda?

[A_Junglen]

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no wonder you are depressed. the advice in this thread really sucks. youre in a world full of donks.

check this out, though:



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lol, sorry but pornography definitely doesn't help...prob makes things worse. Watching people with no respect for themselves perform their "job" really isn't satisfying in the least for me. (for someone my age saying this may be a bad sign in itself)