Me thinks I have chronic depression.

[MrFun]

I liked Civilization III.

[Asher]

Maybe that is the root of our collective depressions.

[MrFun]

Ha!

[Arrian]

I liked CivIII too, as did my wife. It really wasn't that bad. It had a number of very good concepts. The execution of those concepts was obviously rather hit & miss.

-Arrian

[chequita guevara]

We don't know why or if the drugs cause people to kill themselves. We do know that a large percentage of people experience better lives because of them. Sometimes it takes several tries to get the right drug. Friend of mine was on Paxil for years, just maintaining, was switched to Prozac, and the change was very noticeable, very quick, too.

If you had a broken leg, you wouldn't be all, well, it's weakness to rely on crutches and a cast. I should just keep on walking to get stronger. The brain is physical. If the chemistry is off, you're off. You a little experiment to prove this to yourself. Get drunk.

The drugs don't make you happy. The drugs make you normal. However, when you've been down so long, being normal can feel ecstatic.

Also keep in mind that your depression causes your brain to try and trick you and not do the things you need to do to get out of depression.

[chequita guevara]

I liked CivIII too, as did my wife. It really wasn't that bad. It had a number of very good concepts. The execution of those concepts was obviously rather hit & miss.

-Arrian

That's how I felt. I never understood the hate for C3.

[MrFun]

We don't know why or if the drugs cause people to kill themselves. We do know that a large percentage of people experience better lives because of them. Sometimes it takes several tries to get the right drug. Friend of mine was on Paxil for years, just maintaining, was switched to Prozac, and the change was very noticeable, very quick, too.

If you had a broken leg, you wouldn't be all, well, it's weakness to rely on crutches and a cast. I should just keep on walking to get stronger. The brain is physical. If the chemistry is off, you're off. You a little experiment to prove this to yourself. Get drunk.

The drugs don't make you happy. The drugs make you normal. However, when you've been down so long, being normal can feel ecstatic.

Also keep in mind that your depression causes your brain to try and trick you and not do the things you need to do to get out of depression.

Thanks for sharing this. And your example about a broken leg is very similar to what one of my friends said, when they said the brain is really another organ, like the heart is. When you have a heart problem you get a prescription, likewise, when you have depression, you need to do something to treat the problem affecting your brain.

[SlowwHand]

I liked Civilization III.

Now that's depressing.

[Elok]

That's how I felt. I never understood the hate for C3.

Corruption and waste were so high that a city on the same screen as your capital lost a quarter of its production, IIRC. Also, "culture." At least, those were my reasons.

[OzzyKP]

Now that's depressing.

[Provost Harrison]

How ironic.

[Provost Harrison]

Seriously though, I have on and off struggled with depression for, well, a long time. There are certain "factors" that exacerbate it. I'm not going into it here though. Been there, done that...

[Main_Brain]

Being in Germany is one such Factor I suppose?

[Provost Harrison]

I'm rarely in Germany even though my company is German. But my life has been considerably better since I left my previous employers in 2008.

[Main_Brain]

If you dont get depressive in Germany [70s] You werent there dude, you werent there! [/70s]

Good to hear your Job works out for you. SAP-Customizing for Petro-Chemical Companies or something along that Lines was it?