Nameless Dread

[Brandon]

I feel such tremendous pressure anymore, even though it isn't coming from any clearly-defined place. On my shoulders are the weights of shame, guilt, a nameless dread, and responsibility, and they're damn near crushing me. I feel as if the world is standing before me in an impatient pose, waiting for me to make the next big decision or finish another assignment, and if I fail to do so, it will run over me and leave me in the dust.

I can't enjoy anything anymore. I'm positively obsessed with how well I'm doing and how the "finished product" will look. Even when I'm with friends, I'm constantly obsessing over "how well" I'm acting around them and if the social interaction was a "success." It's utterly bizarre.

Can anyone relate? Or am I just insane?

[Spooky]

Uhm, either you're just a perfectionist, trying too hard, or this is some kind of joke that went RIGHT OVER MY HEAD

[Jeanette X]

Freud called what you feel "free-floating anxiety". How long has this been going on?

[Sicktodeathmx]

I'm the same way... Only with my perfectionism, it stresses me out so bad that I can't function for a bit. You should go to therapy.. It's the goods

[Geggy]

christ, jeannette, you alway have answers for everything, do you? do you cheat with the INTERNET?

[Cosmo Electrolux]

Jeannette knows all! Worship her. Now.

[Jeanette X]

[mburbank]

While anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs are WIDELY overperscribed, checking in with your doctor would be good. Get them to reccomend a therapist, and see what they think. They can do a great deal of good, if they are actually called for.

In the meantime, remind yourself often that these feelings are just that, temporary feelings, and not descriptive of some wider reality.

[Blackguy]

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by mburbank

While anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs are WIDELY overperscribed, checking in with your doctor would be good. Get them to reccomend a therapist, and see what they think. They can do a great deal of good, if they are actually called for.

In the meantime, remind yourself often that these feelings are just that, temporary feelings, and not descriptive of some wider reality.

It's not all that easy. First, you go to your doctor whom tells you go to a therapist. Then, you go to the therapist who decides whether or not you need the drug, and tells you to go to the psychiatrist. They might give you a sample, though. Then you go to the psychiatrist, who just says "Yeah, you need this."

Then you go and get whatever he prescribed, and you forget to take it sometimes and lapse into severe depression until you remember to take it. Oh, and they keep upping the doses.

[Blackguy]

Wow. You're pretty experienced huh....*clears throat* I mean, yo you krakkas iz wak and crazy off the shizzle biznach. bling bling. yo tired depressed ass.

[Mike P]

Er... shizzle my nizzle? I have no idea what that means.

But yeah, I'm experienced with it. Except right now I'm really hyper because of lack of sleep, taking my meds, and the fact that my website that no one will ever look at is working and actually shaping up to be an all right site.

[Blackguy]

yo comics aint not funny.

[Protoclown]

Gee. What an ironic and hilarious character. I mean, side splitting. Really.

[Blackguy]

You know it bitch.

[Protoclown]

Oh my god, I seriously and sincerely almost spat juice all over my monitor. Because of what you said. It being so gut-achingly funny and all. I'm not even being facetious at all, for real, I am "rolling on the floor with laughter" every time you post.

[Blackguy]

All right, you dont have to milk it, I think we can all sense your scarcasm.

[mburbank]

Wow, what a bad character. I mean, do the character or don't. Unless the character is about being a bad character. In which case, carry on.

[Protoclown]

I mean, it's just the fact that the name of the character is Blackguy, and then, as you might expect, it's a black man for the avatar. But as you might NOT expect, it's a clean-cut corporate friendly SUV- in-all-probability-driving black guy. And then, just to turn things on their ear even more, he talks like he's straight out the ghetto, yo.

The irony is just so insanely clever, so well and carefully crafted, it just boggles the mind. Who could be behind this character of Shakespearean proportions? Who indeed?

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Blackguy

yo comics aint not funny.

I'm really confused about this. I think I know what it means, but I have no idea if it really means what I mean. Argh, it hurts my brain...

[Blackguy]

Originally Posted by Mike P

I'm really confused about this. I think I know what it means, but I have no idea if it really means what I mean. Argh, it hurts my brain...

Daaaaaaamn. You is a stupid Ckrakka. I read you damn comics, An dey aint funny!

[Mike P]

Well, you see, first you used the double negative "ain't not", which renders the sentence like this:

yo comics funny

Then you used the smiling emoticon, , making me thing you were happy or joyful or something. Your own stupidity renders others the same! REPENT!

[Protoclown]

Holy smokes! NOW he's changed his avatar to a white guy! I just can't keep up with this guy. He's breaking new ground with every post!

[Blackguy]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Well Blah Blah Blah which renders the sentence like this Blah comics Blah

yo aint comics funny blah

Then you used the smiling emoticon, , which was claerly scarcasm, But Im a dipshit so this made me think you were happy or joyful or something. Your own geneius renders others the retarded! Keep up the good work!

me--> : <----you

Tru dat tru dat.

[Mike P]

Oh, I get it. You're supposed to be a sterotypical black man, and therefore you're one of the stupidest mother fuckers alive! Good show!

No offense meant to non-stereotypical black men.