Mental Health

"God is dead & no one cares"

Depression - a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity; sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy caused by a chemical change that affects how the brain functions.

Yes, my friends, it truly does suck for lack of a better term. I didn't lose my wife or husband nor my job or the kids. Hell, I don't even have kids. But by no means does that concur that life is a box of f*cking chocolates either. So I thought rather than waller in my cesspool of grief, I shall put forth information on the topic of depression.

You see I wasn't always like this. In fact, I'm not quite sure when it all came about full circle. I suppose that's what you pay those expensive therapists to figure out. Anyway, it may have been a problem brewing deep under the euphoria of youth. I can't complain about my childhood. If I had to take a stab at when this depression business started to surface, I would say roughly between the years of eleven & fourteen. Those are already troubling times for a kid. Add humility & constant harassment to that, and you're one bummed out kid. As things picked up later in my teenage life, it was once again beaten into submission by the rapture of youth.

Well, obviously the naivete & splendor of being young ends as you grow older. All the stress factors of being an adult take hold & break away the shield your youthful happiness worked so hard to build. Eventually, that damned depression once again penetrates thru, & bickety bam you're bummed. Enough about me.

I put together some entertaining yet useless crap that might shed some humor on your sorrowed mind. Enjoy & cheer up for f*ck's sake.

Worst Things to Say To Someone Who is Depressed
Way too many to list. However, you can add new lines to the list. Mine would read as follows:
Have another drink. Tomorrow will be worse.

Albums I Highly Recommend Avoiding When Depressed

• A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
• Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
• Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
• This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours - Manic Street Preachers
• The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
• Faith - The Cure
• The Wall - Pink Floyd
• Ok Computer - Radiohead
• Surfacing - Sarah MacLachlan
• Starfish - The Church
• Dirt - Alice In Chains (chocked full of suicidal lyrics)
• Source Tags & Codes - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead
• Master of Puppets - Metallica (yes...Metallica)

These are a few from my personal stash. I tend to steer clear of all Joy Division, Morrissey, & early Cure albums during dark times. Lately, I've grown quite partial of jazz, swing, & big band as it seems to stimulate sporadic waves of happiness throughout my battered mind. It beats the hell out of crying uncontrollably & obsessive rumination. Oh and wear alot of black. It tends to deter those overjoyous, annoying people who feel inclined to pry & resolve your problems on sight.

Well, I must return to my cavern of gloom & doom. Darkness & dementia. Briefly in regards to current events, NOLA is flooding again. The levee in the lower 9th ward has been breached by water caused by the storm surge from Hurricane Rita. Unfortunately, the storm has taken a more northbound trajectory vs. the westbound route originally predicted. Is it just me or does this seem like to beginning of the end? First Adolf Bush II gains control of the country, then came 9-11, then unjustified warfare & genocide, then the re-election, and now storm after storm battering the Gulf Coast with absolute shite federal organization & support.

George W. Bush.... You are truly a f*cking moron and should be tried for countless acts of negligence & murder for all the innocent lives you have destroyed during your reign. Impeachment is too kind.

Much deserved love once again to the folks in/from NOLA & the surrounding areas who have already dealt with enough loss & tragedy to last a lifetime.