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Lol 😄

Glad that's what we ended up with.

🙂

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[quote='Mike-B' pid='531' dateline='1411667584']
Thankyou for the warm welcome Emotion & Crystal.

Emotion the technical reason at the time was your security questions - I mentioned it to you at the Forum Promotion site... Also I PM'd you a couple of days ago, also at the Forum Promotion site regarding email verification, basicaly it's taking hours (or did for me) to recieve the email.

My depression has, for the most part been better since being diagnosed. Though it isn't that easy to say as I was put on anti depressants at the same time!

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Oh, I just noticed you PM'd me there. I can't reply to PM's there for whatever reason. I'm not sure why it took hours for you to receive the e-mail. I made a test account and got an activation email within 5 mintues. I used a gmail account. What email provider are you using?
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I think it was a Yahoo account I used in this instance.

Haha! I've been there as well (especially the first image).

[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/qznnz9.jpg[/IMG]

The fans on my (rather loud) pc while a lone dog barks in the distance.....

Spooooky !!

I fixed the issue. It's in the right sidebar on the home page now. Let me know if it works for you.

In my experience it seemed to take a lot more effort and willpower to manage while being depressed, and no amount of effort or willpower seemed to have any lasting result. The effect of depression was a greatly reduced sense of available energy for anything. I equate emotions with the mail and they always have a message. Sometimes I go far out of my way to avoid the message because I don't want to hear it. For me the idea that superficial things cannot make me happy was a message I didn't want to hear, but when I finally got the message I saw that there is a far more meaningful and purposeful way of engaging with life. I had to give up on the hope that someday my superficial dreams will come true. Holding onto superficial dreams was depressing. Letting go of what can't work anyway led to a new sense of lightness that I did not know was possible.

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I'm not sure where else to post this, but my appetite is definitely lacking. I can feel hungry, but I can't feel the urge to eat or anticipation of eating. My body is fine, it can tell my brain I'm hungry, but my brain doesn't care and doesn't give me the feeling or desire to eat. Eating becomes a chore and depresses me. The only thing that seems to help is intense exercise, but its effect is temporary, less than an hour, it just seems to make me want to eat food rather than desire it if that makes sense.
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The lack of appetite definitely comes from the fact that you're depressed, emotion. If you're not hungry, you shouldn't eat or, insted of that, try to eat something like a fruit, a smoothie or something healthy.
Intense exercise makes you feel better because it releases a lot of chemicals in your brain.

Neverthless, if you become underweight, you should see a doctor.

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I too have this deep void and I think it's because of my depression. My depression manifests itself as anhedonia rather than melancholy. Of course with anhedonia comes apathy and thus a lack of drive for life. With no drive for life I don't have a a goal, I'm just 'living' day by day eating, showering, exercising, and sleeping. Crystal, I too can't imagine myself in the future
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x2 -- This

That's very kind! 🙂

Beautiful, indeed more possibilities than Terraria :).

Thank you, that was very helpful.

Thanks Crystal!

Hehe...
She definitely loved her dad's beard.

Hehe, yeah it makes me uncomfortable as well. I guess some people find it relaxing. :S

No problem, I'll post more if I find any. A good friend definitely is helpful. Just having someone to hang around with boosts your mood.