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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 10:10pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Hello all. My lovely friendly type peoples.

It is obvious that by dwelling on a depression that you can become more depressed. Well, it's obvious to me.

Has anyone ever felt a bit 'OK' and gone with it and felt that they have made them selves feel better than maybe they were going to?
I mean, could a good mood be made into a hypermanic mood by acting on it?

Not sure any of this is making sense.
Just a thought I'd had like.

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JEANETTE EVANS


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 10:18pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Good theory ! My daughter who is clinically depressed only said to me today that
thinking about being depressed makes you more depressed.

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tracy8673


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 10:21pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Sort of get your meaning. I know that when I've had full on depression and lost grip of reality it has been when I'm alone and my son's been with his Dad or Nanna etc. When he's back - it doesn't completely go away, but I am at least able to function and put on the best happy face I can manage. I can go from being unable to make a cup of coffee to being an all singing and dancing domestic goddess because I have to. Does this make any sense? It has left me wondering whether I'm merely being self indulgent and bringing it on myself - although it all feels horribly real at the time. Confused about it myself. Why would I want to feel like that? If I could just turn it on and off - why would I want to feel like shit on a shoe? I know that when I feel like that, I wake up hoping against all hope that it has gone away. But I don't feel like it is something I can control.

Blah! Rambling.....

There must be a perfectly simple and rational answer - I'm just not clever enough to know it X-D

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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 10:26pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Good theory ! My daughter who is clinically depressed only said to me today that
thinking about being depressed makes you more depressed.

Exactly what I think.

If I could just turn it on and off - why would I want to feel like shit on a shoe?

You wouldn't - I like the analogy, by the way.
BUT, it's almost impossible not to think about being depressed when you are.
BUT, I have often felt a bit poo, or actually quite well and a song has come on the radio in the car or somethijng and I turn it up - LOUD.
I then start to get lost in it and can feel my energy building.
Usually I get to my destination and go back to 'normal' again.
What if I carried on though?
Maybe I could become well feeling good and stuff.
I'm talking crap now, I know. I'm also compiling rather strange sentences, but I can cope with it, if you can.

TTFN.

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Saturn


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 10:56pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Sometimes when I'm really depressed I actually make myself deliberately more depressed by doing things, watching certain things, listening to certain songs, thinking about certain things that I know will upset me.

I know that sounds crazy - I mean why would you want to make yourself worse?

I have no idea why I do this and it's something I battle against but when I'm in the grip of a really powerful low I feel like dragging everything and everyone else into the pit with me

I'm sure this makes no sense, and certainly no-one has explained to me why I do this but all I can say is I don't do anything by half.

There is a kind of liberation in feeling so utterly wretched, when you feel capable of anything, or totally out of control that anything can happen. It's a terrible feeling but it does have a strange freedom about it.

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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:00pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
It makes total sense to me.
Been there and done it!
No idea why either.
Glad I'm not the only nutter! (no offence)

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Saturn


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:02pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
None taken - mad and proud mate, mad and proud X-D

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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:03pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Hoorah!!

nice to make your acquaintance, Saturn.

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JEANETTE EVANS


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:03pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Yep! That rings very true in my case its music sad i know but its R.E.M over and over again

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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:06pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
It used to be a piece from Mozart I think that I listened to. A death march? Funeral march?
I dunno.
Classical music is a killer.

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JEANETTE EVANS


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:09pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Requiem ???Written for his own funeral

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Maniac


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:10pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
That'll be the one.
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ratoutofhell


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:21pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Wow, this thread is sounding all too familiar - it's not just me then - quite a relief, that.

"If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model" - Banksy

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Anonymous


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:25pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Yep! That rings very true in my case its music sad i know but its R.E.M over and over again

this winter, for me. it was arcade fire.

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tracy8673


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Posted Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 11:30pm Post subject: Possible to induce a mood?
Just thought of something really stupid that I go through when I'm feeling utterly depressed

I feel like nobody cares about me and I'm all alone in this world - Me vs. everybody. Yet if someone calls and invites me over or out to the pub etc. I don't want to go X-D Sometimes, I cling to the drama of it all. Can't believe I'm admitting to that one

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