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who FEARS becoming depressed?


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nurseboy, I fear anything related to mental illness. I try not to let things get the best of me anymore, but still when I here that someone is depressed and suicidal or they are bipolar that totally freaks me out. Once someone came on here who had been diagnosed with alot of mental illnesses and they said something about suffering from psychotic episodes, well I'm usually a big mouth and have something to say to almost everyone, but I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole, he scared the sh*t out of me. I think mostly everyone else felt the same way too because I don't think the poor guy got any response to his post.
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I hear ya Bob. i fear my normal feelings and emotions and watch them like a hawk. afraid for no reason?
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Hi nurseboy...that's me! I've never really been a depressed person(except for a period of several months when I quit smoking 4 years ago). For some reason though, I still fear it. Every time I have a small down period (which I think is normal for every human being - no one can always be "up"), I start to stress and worry that I'm going to get depressed. So instead of letting myself feel very natural emotions (and probably healthy sometimes) I fight it and try and distract myself. Fear of depression is often just another catastrophic thought that I use to scare myself.
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I don't fear becoming depressed, because I am depressed quite often...I'm used to it now.
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does anybody fear becoming depressed. Somedays, i get so scared that i am going to get so depressed that i can't function that i actually become a little depressed and tell myself 'see, you knew it would happen'!

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