Depression is a disease of intelligence – it only occurs in the top 5th percentile. Thus spake la shrink and I guess it’s meant to make a down person feel up? Whatever. Intelligence is as intelligence does, whatever that means.
Anyone have any great tips for unclenching the jaw? I think mine’s been clenched since about 1974. Mostly for the rhyme.
Uganda now doesn’t just wanna behead homosexuals, it wants to behead homosexual boy scouts – and jail any adult who gives them “supportive advice.” :/
Context … there’s always context.
lesbian neurotica 
February 18th, 2010 at 01:58
In some ways I want to believe that… but I also don’t completely. Sure I think a lot of intelligent people deal with depression, but others do too.
(i just had to spend the bus ride home hearing about how some guy jumped from a building downtown yesterday…ugh)
unclenching the jaw… hrm. Have you found any stress relieving fall backs? sometimes i’ll do comfort food, or movies. But when its really bad, I obviously have yet to find a constructive solution. ha..
HUGS
those homosexual boy scouts sure are a dangerous bunch! eek
February 18th, 2010 at 10:33
i feel so sorry for ugandans full stop … that whole country must have serious ptsd and worse … such a sad and violent history and whole generations wrecked and ruined.
uh … stress relief … walks/phys exercise helps. sometimes i just sleep. read. drown in music. when i am fried i just can’t meditate. hell when i’m that strung out i can’t even masturbate o.0
February 22nd, 2010 at 17:50
Am not sure it is has so much to do with intelligence (that’s a broad term) as with emotional intelligence and high standards on oneself. Depression is basically rage and scorn directed at oneself because we are disappointed by our own actions. And since our standards for ourselves are impossibly high (much higher than we expect from others) we never reach them. And thus we are depressed that we can’t reach them.
At least that’s how it is for me. Partially, anyway.
February 22nd, 2010 at 19:57
ja … and i was well trained to loathe myself.
February 23rd, 2010 at 02:03
Me too :(
February 23rd, 2010 at 21:46
:(
March 6th, 2010 at 02:47
i dunno, i don’t think you can always blame the self on depression issues. the self is affected by external influences 99.9% of the time, most of which are close to the self in some way or another. standards and expectations don’t come from within. if the self wasn’t surrounded by an environment surely one would not feel the need to “live up to” certain ideals and standards accepted to be the norm by mainstream society, no?
March 7th, 2010 at 19:58
totally – it’s a whole damn mix ;)