Post College Depression

[PhatCasino]

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I never understand why people like writing posts to trash other poeple. Like, does it turn you on?

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It's fun.. It's also fun to see how whinos like you take the world too darn seriously.

Go overanalyze the tells on the the bum you feed at the homeless shelter who is now schooling you in 2-4 or the old lady who you spoke to about the nixon presidency who's now kicking your ass with 53... soooted..

wait? she'll remember that nixon coversation for a hot minute now...
hahahah

jesuit education? go into the priesthood - maybe that's your calling

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I am making enough money playing poker that I should not have been depressed over the last few months. Yet I was.

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Maybe your just naturally depressed and need some drugs



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One quick hit and I could start a business, and I'd be happy

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Dude, that ain't ever gonna happen in a casino

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We talked for a while and I began to feel better about myself. I wasn't alone.

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Yeah a conversation on AIM could work magic - go out and get some pussy if you feel so alone.


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I'm also thinking of volunteering at the nursing home my mother works at, just a few hours a week, to have an activity where I interact with others.

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Umm? Yeah, if you wanna wash old people or something... Try enrolling at some bullshit college grad courses - maybe once a week - making the objective not grades - but "interacting w/ others" or better yet? get a job, you loser

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Smile to the grocery store cashier as she rings up your food

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Yeah, and think to yourself - that might be me one day - imagine my depression then.


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I feel that everything else will just fall into place.

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Better get over this crap first - good luck!

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wow this guy's a dick

[gildwulf]

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I am making enough money playing poker that I should not have been depressed over the last few months. Yet I was.

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Maybe your just naturally depressed and need some drugs



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One quick hit and I could start a business, and I'd be happy

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Dude, that ain't ever gonna happen in a casino

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We talked for a while and I began to feel better about myself. I wasn't alone.

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Yeah a conversation on AIM could work magic - go out and get some pussy if you feel so alone.


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I'm also thinking of volunteering at the nursing home my mother works at, just a few hours a week, to have an activity where I interact with others.

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Umm? Yeah, if you wanna wash old people or something... Try enrolling at some bullshit college grad courses - maybe once a week - making the objective not grades - but "interacting w/ others" or better yet? get a job, you loser

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Smile to the grocery store cashier as she rings up your food

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Yeah, and think to yourself - that might be me one day - imagine my depression then.


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I feel that everything else will just fall into place.

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Better get over this crap first - good luck!

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wow this guy's a dick

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[Aytumious]

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I am making enough money playing poker that I should not have been depressed over the last few months. Yet I was.

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Maybe your just naturally depressed and need some drugs



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One quick hit and I could start a business, and I'd be happy

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Dude, that ain't ever gonna happen in a casino

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We talked for a while and I began to feel better about myself. I wasn't alone.

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Yeah a conversation on AIM could work magic - go out and get some pussy if you feel so alone.


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I'm also thinking of volunteering at the nursing home my mother works at, just a few hours a week, to have an activity where I interact with others.

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Umm? Yeah, if you wanna wash old people or something... Try enrolling at some bullshit college grad courses - maybe once a week - making the objective not grades - but "interacting w/ others" or better yet? get a job, you loser

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Smile to the grocery store cashier as she rings up your food

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Yeah, and think to yourself - that might be me one day - imagine my depression then.


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I feel that everything else will just fall into place.

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Better get over this crap first - good luck!

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wow this guy's a dick

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[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] if ya ant real relationships; i doubt you make many at a poker table..

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tends to be an artificial way for people to get together; but draws people who have trouble with real relationships....; no, not everyone...lol..but a nice %

jmho

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[Darryl_P]

Sounds good to me. If it seems to be working then keep doing it I'd say...

I'm 38 now and went through a major depression spell from age 29 to 32. In a nutshell my problem was that society was pushing me to go in directions I didn't want to go, and I didn't know why. Making money was always easy (in terms of intellectual challenge, not necessarily energy output), but it always seemed like the wrong things were being rewarded. Basically to make decent money you had to either be a whore or sell your soul to the devil in some metaphorical way.

Then I stumbled on the Unabomber's Manifesto

http://www.thecourier.com/manifest.htm

It made me realize that you COULD reject everything modern society stands for, and still be an intelligent, valuable human being.

After a great deal of reflection, long discussions with friends, good and bad relationships with various women, I have finally reached a point where I can confidently represent the anti-society side and am able to articulate noble goals for myself and family.

I don't know if the same road is right for you, but just in case I thought I'd share my story and the UM.

[Supersetoy]

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Sounds good to me. If it seems to be working then keep doing it I'd say...

I'm 38 now and went through a major depression spell from age 29 to 32. In a nutshell my problem was that society was pushing me to go in directions I didn't want to go, and I didn't know why. Making money was always easy (in terms of intellectual challenge, not necessarily energy output), but it always seemed like the wrong things were being rewarded. Basically to make decent money you had to either be a whore or sell your soul to the devil in some metaphorical way.

Then I stumbled on the Unabomber's Manifesto

http://www.thecourier.com/manifest.htm

It made me realize that you COULD reject everything modern society stands for, and still be an intelligent, valuable human being.

After a great deal of reflection, long discussions with friends, good and bad relationships with various women, I have finally reached a point where I can confidently represent the anti-society side and am able to articulate noble goals for myself and family.

I don't know if the same road is right for you, but just in case I thought I'd share my story and the UM.

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I'd just like to say that I can't believe I've read through most of this already. But I thought this was interesting/relating to poker:

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41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals ( that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the "mundane" business of satisfying their biological needs, but that it is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities.

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[Darryl_P]

I agree. Poker is the mundane business of satisfying biological needs while most so-called real jobs are surrogate activities.

IMO it's much better to focus on what really matters, even if there is a lot of down time and boredom involved, than to constantly fool yourself into believing that what you're doing is important when it's not.

Relying on poker for a living is stressful. If you don't thrive on stress its not a good idea.

Imagine working on an assembly line in a factory and doing exactly the same work every day, but the end of the week your paycheck is a random number, not revealed in advance.

Sometimes, its a nice fat paycheck, but sometimes, even though you work just as hard every week, its a negative number. The factory actually made YOU pay to work there that week. And they might do it again next week, you can't be sure...

[The Truth]

This thread is turning into fight club.

"We're the middle children of history, with no special purpose or place.
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression.
The great depression is our lives. The great war is a spiritual war."

"We were raised by television to believe that someday we'll all be
millionaires and movie stars and rock stars -- but we won't. And we're
learning that fact."


-blake