Depression...

[Edbear]

Wow - so much to read here on a thread going back years. It's not the sort of topic I'd have imagined on a biker forum.

I have my own personal experience with depression, one which my friends and family weren't aware of as I thought it was a weakness and I just needed to harden up. It's something I should share in case someone here can learn something from experience.

...SNIP...

MORAL OF THE STORY: Depression can be a physiological reaction to something in your diet. Life can get better and you can experience a range of emotions without feeling depressed again.

I'm happy to chat with anyone that has any questions.

True, we do have different reactions to certain substances and food, drugs etc. Especialy medications which affect people so radically differently that Drs. are cautious about prescribing a full course of drugs until they see how the patient reacts to it. I'm pleased you found a solution to your problem but gluten-free doesn't really appeal to me personally. I'm very grateful not to have much in the way of allergies.

[Paul in NZ]

Its not just psychological. I have fully blown coeliac which is gluten intolerance. I was not diagnosed until I got to the point of occasionally falling down in a heap due to low iron (intestines wrecked, not absorbing any nutrients)… Coupled into that I’m a type 1 diabetic (like 4 times the incidence of depression). There was the potential for things to get very glum…

Food is hugely important… It has a massive effect on our bodies / minds. Look at the relationship between alcohol and depression…

[Maha]

There was ride thread for depressed people somewhere..might have spawned from this thread.
Would have been one to stay away from, the lunch stop would have dragged you down.

[Paul in NZ]

There was ride thread for depressed people somewhere..might have spawned from this thread.
Would have been one to stay away from, the lunch stop would have dragged you down.

Is that one of those rides where if you get your knee down it just stays down?

[Winston001]

Haven't seen this thread for a while and the sad death of Charlotte Dawson brought it to mind. I know very little about her. Despite being well-known and hopefully with resources etc she couldn't fend off the dark places.

Just awful.

I don't think her illness had anything to do with Facebook and social media. Those intrusions in her life played on her vulnerability but didn't cause it. I'm pissed off that all the attention drawn by her death is shallow criticism of social media instead of deeper discussion of how a person can become so desperate that non-life is their choice.

[FJRider]

There was ride thread for depressed people somewhere..might have spawned from this thread.
Would have been one to stay away from, the lunch stop would have dragged you down.

I just love the caring person that you are ... to understand depression .. you need to suffer it .. I doubt by your post you ever will understand it.

[Conquiztador]

Not only focusing on depression this is something I think most on this site could/would support:

https://www.facebook.com/RatsRidersAgainstTeenSuicide

[nodrog:Me]

I wish my lawn was depressed, then it would cut itself.

[Stylo]

I just love the caring person that you are ... to understand depression .. you need to suffer it .. I doubt by your post you ever will understand it.

Nice words FJ

Arrived home when I was only 15 after school and Mum was lying on the floor, razorblades , pills and a lot of blood on the floor. Holy fuck and she was only 37. Dead.

My 5 cents

[Maha]

I just love the caring person that you are ... to understand depression .. you need to suffer it .. I doubt by your post you ever will understand it.

Did you bite down hard on an apricot stone Trev?, you have interacted with me long enough on here to know I mean no malice with what I say.. I stopped all that in 2008
You sound like that JK advert...depression .org I'll see ya there.

[FJRider]

Did you bite down hard on an apricot stone Trev?, you have interacted with me long enough on here to know I mean no malice with what I say.. I stopped all that in 2008
You sound like that JK advert...depression .org I'll see ya there.

On KB there is only two colours ... black and white. Impersonal and without full inflection of the posters full feelings/meaning of their words known. My posts (usually) leave little doubt as to MY opinion/meaning in any given post.

I do not (usually) intend offense to most (friends) I reply to in posts ... and if I have with you ...

MY MOST HUMBLEST APOLOGIES ...



And ... give as good as you get ... (usually) works for me.

Sometimes I even get it right ...

[FJRider]

Nice words FJ

Arrived home when I was only 15 after school and Mum was lying on the floor, razorblades , pills and a lot of blood on the floor. Holy fuck and she was only 37. Dead.

My 5 cents

There have been times in my life ... similar actions seemed like a good easy option. With the biggest battles going on inside my own head.

And some battles were won. Some continue ...






Watch this space ...

[Akzle]

a)depression is only one precursor to suicide.
b)i dont support anything on facebook. And its usually the wrong teens who suicide. (it should be the knuckle draggers who can neither operate a belt (around their waist ) or string a sentence together without five utterances of "like" and no similies)
c) dont know or give a fuck about dawson, ironically its probably only the effect its had on social media thats actually worth news time.
d) allah yarhamha, bitch.

[Yamahardman]

When I feel depressed I go and ride my motorbike.
When that fails, I go to the spca and play with the kittens.

Kittens (and cats) are like crack for me, I'm allergic to them, but still love them.

[ZeroIndex]

Wow, just found this post... so I thought I'd chime in, meds: the right meds are fucking amazing, I've been depressed for years, which over the last 2 years have been at it's worst. I won't go all out in detail, but life did not seem very bright. Jumped around different meds over the last 2 years, and I'm finally on some that work for me. My whole world has changed since then, and life now seems worth living. So yeah, if you are depressed or know someone that has depression... make sure you/they get on some good meds, switch until you find ones that work.

PS. I have spent time with councilors, psychologists, and a psychiatric nurse... and until I was prescribed medication that actually worked for me, it was all a waste of time