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Seeing all these Feeling Low Posts makes me feel like screaming THAT'S LIFE

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RegularPoster · 25/10/2004 17:48

I'm sorry

I don't really read these threads

I do know that depression is a real illness and requires medical help and I do not wish to denigrate those who are suffering in this way

I cannot help thinking that a lot of these posts stem from expecting more from life than there really is. Some people just seem to want to feel good all the time, and the things that are getting you down are JUST LIFE

I think a lot of you do need to pull your socks up and stop analysing things. just get on with your lives and make the best of it

God forbid you had something proper to worry about - like war, disease, famine

Don't seem to see many of the mothers from the SN board posting here nor those who I do see as having real problems to worry about.

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essbee · 25/10/2004 22:21

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fairyfly · 25/10/2004 22:21

when i say stick it, i mean just not take it to heart, let it go over my head. life is hard enough without worrying if you are pleasing everyone also. I don't actually mean i tell people to piss off or give them the finger. I am not hard in the slightest. i haven't head butted anyone for an entire week. I also don't get angry or upset about mn i realise we all don't have to agree, infact not agreeing can be great fun, it kept me and my x together for quite sometime.

SenoraPostrophe · 25/10/2004 22:22

I was quite shocked too, Enid.

This is a strange thread. In some ways I kind of agree about some posts on mn - but I just don't respond. And, Enid, I agree about ADs possibly being used too frequently (along with a lot of drugs for psychological problems). I don't particularly agree about the feeling low threads - and the original poster was clearly looking for a fight. I just don't know. I'm all suspicious now.

agy · 25/10/2004 22:22

Why are we so ready to believe it was a 'regular poster'? Any lurker could call themselves that. I still think it was a troll. Or Justine

fairyfly · 25/10/2004 22:24

Thanks Martha for the wonderful analogy

moomina · 25/10/2004 22:24

I think it was someone regular, sadly.

kkgirl · 25/10/2004 22:25

Well this has started off a real debate hasn't it.
I have been coming on this thread, not because I am suffering from depression myself, well nothing serious anyway, just life as RP has said.
However, I have been directly involved with my parents who have both had very serious nervous breakdowns, and were hospitalised, and my dad tried to take his own life.
Unfortunately, he could not pull his socks up, RP because if you had experienced depression/mental illness yourself, you would know, that whether you have a real problem to worry about or not, dealing with everday things, which we take for granted when we are well, become huge tasks, which cannot be dealt with.
I understand the point you are trying to make, but it is very insensitive to post it here, where people who are in a very delicate state go for support, sympathy, advice and it is very important for them.
Yes on the whole in this country we are very lucky not to have the problems you have mentioned, but would you be so critical of someone if they had broken their leg and couldn't walk, or had a heart problem and were in hospital??

marthamoo · 25/10/2004 22:25

That's OK, bunnygirl

jojo38 · 25/10/2004 22:25

Yeeehhaaaa!! What a plonker!!

I think who ever it is has your and my attention.

It isn't necessarily everyone's cup of tea to discuss their personal, private and sometimes life hurting problems with others, online, where all and sundry can see, BUT in most cases IT HELPS! Not only does it help the person concerned but those who are too frightened to come forward. These people can see that they are not alone and perhaps find some strength from others replies and support.

Everyone feels down, under the weather, sad, misguided, rotten, shitty, you name it. What ever YOU class it as RPcoward, everyone has a different level of feeling and coping with the situation they find themselves in at the time. Just as we ALL have different pain thresholds... we are all different.

Hopefully our problems will be shortlived. Others endure a lifetime of unhappiness. Some of whom can only wish they were in a war, or famine so that they can end their misery with your so called LIFE.

I feel that this person has achieved what he/she set out to.

I hope RP, what ever you are, you can now rub your hands together with glee. We DO stick together. We do need one another. No matter WHO WE ARE.

So piss off and leave us to it!

(oooh sorry ladies - bit strong for me).

fairyfly · 25/10/2004 22:26

Hope you are alright enid, really confused, my initials aren't this same and everyone knows it has been me all along

fairyfly · 25/10/2004 22:27

joke btw

moomina · 25/10/2004 22:27

FF, RP, CS, who knows...?

Enid · 25/10/2004 22:27

it wasnt was it!!!

what a weird thing to do and nasty too.

EvesMama · 25/10/2004 22:29

the only 'cs i can think of it childmindersam and i dont believe for a minute it would be her as she herself is having a hard time.
so who else is cs? i havent been around for long?

princesspeahead · 25/10/2004 22:29

I repeat.... "Blimey Enid"!
You are quite right. Your first name begins with C, which I would guess goes for approx 20% of those posting on Mumsnet. But the only time we have ever corresponded your surname has not started with S! Although now you mention it, you have got married, and I do know your SIL, and I do know her maiden name, so I could have meant you.

Or I could have meant someone else with those initials.

Or I could have just picked two obvious initials out of thin air to attempt to put the thread to rest.

Calm down for gods sake!

bonniej · 25/10/2004 22:30

RP said everything in the title. Wouldn't it have been better if no-one had posted anything on it at all. How dissappointing for RP that would have been.

Enid · 25/10/2004 22:30

err - no!

Enid · 25/10/2004 22:32

well I don't believe about the plucking initials out of thin air.

Did you mean someone else then?

nikcola · 25/10/2004 22:39

omg have i missed something again???????

nikcola · 25/10/2004 22:43

i killed a thread

kkgirl · 25/10/2004 22:49

Nikcola

Yes you could say that basically.
A thread was started saying that people seem to expect more from life than they should, and that they don't really have anything to worry about, and should pull themselves together, because there is always someone worse off.

Insensitive when the thread is for people who are feeling low for whatever reason. And now the sparks are flying, and it is upsetting people.

JoolsToo · 25/10/2004 22:51

crikey blimey charlie

I love a good debate but just come back to this and my eyeballs are swizzling in my head - its like a firework gone wrong and shooting off in all different directions - wow!

nikcola · 25/10/2004 22:52

oh ffs , why cant people just be nice anymore MN has really changed (well a few people have) i bet rp lives in a big bloody house with a nanny and a bloody rich husband, feeling low is for whatever people are feelong down about whatever it is i dont no where i would be if i didnt have mners to cheer me up, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

JoolsToo · 25/10/2004 22:54

nikcola - do you think rich people don't get depression?

sobernow · 25/10/2004 22:54

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