• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

So... I Have Aspergers.

  • Thread starter Thread starter Chris
  • Start date Start date
I'm not trying to make an argument or be critical of you(well, I might be, but not with the intent to hurt).
I simply think you've got the wrong idea about depression, or at least, only one perspective.
Maybe I am misinterpreting.
I don't know.
IMO, you were the one being confrontational, questioning him being depressed.
EMZ.

Then you have completely misinterpreted me.
 
You keep saying that, but without really explaining why. Its probably just cause you think anyone with any kind of trace of depression has to have identical circumstances to you. You don't need to dig up links to tell people what depression is, i'm pretty sure most people here know.

When you said to me "do you know what people like you, make me do?" to me, on the chat thing, I assume you mean, cut yourself.
 
You keep saying that, but without really explaining why. Its probably just cause you think anyone with any kind of trace of depression has to have identical circumstances to you. You don't need to dig up links to tell people what depression is, i'm pretty sure most people here know.

When you said to me "do you know what people like you, make me do?" to me, on the chat thing, I assume you mean, cut yourself.

No. You make me go into a social recluse.

Because believe it or not, I actually care about your opinions. And they affect me a lot.

Anyway...as for explaining why she misinterpreted me...I was trying to make the point that there are different levels of severity of depression. Just because you found it easy enough to just get up...it doesn't mean that the people who are so badly affected they can't get up, are in some way feeling sorry for themselves or are weak. That's ridiculous.
 
Everyone's opinions are bound to be different, apart from the hurds of sheep in society. You shouldn't get upset about opinions, you try to think if the person has point, and learn from it.
 
Anyway...as for explaining why she misinterpreted me...I was trying to make the point that there are different levels of severity of depression.
My point was was that you can be several depressed but no one could know.
It depends how you define depressed I suppose, but imo, if you have a negative view on life, and it's to a certain extent you're depressed.
I've been close to killing my self(standing on window ledge[decided not to 'cause the feeling of guilt was too strong]), but I doubt anyone would be able to tell I was that depressed.
IMO(and it is only opinion, there's no empirical system to measure the severity of depression, and there's no 'definite' definition of depression, quote the APA, etc. it don't matter, it manifests in so many contexts it's impossible to define), you can be severely depressed and no one would notice. You're just more likely to be diagnosed if you talk about your problems, etc. I personally don't, and one of my best friends is the same. We come across, at worse, as dysthymic, but I'd say we're moderately to severely depressed.
Trust me Michael, you're not the only one who's depressed. A lot of people are, they just hide it, or can't humour it.
I'm not saying you're selfish. I'm just saying people do cope with depression differently, and that you can't say someone's not severely depressed because they don't express symptoms.
I'm not trying to argue with you. I enjoy debating though.
EMZ=]
 
I know that I can be very depressed and most people cannot really tell. I think that is perhaps one of the features of Aspergers/HFA though, that some of us don't "communicate" our emotions as clearly to others. I am absolutely terrified of dentists, and yet every dentist I go to says what a great patient I am because I am so calm. When I am depressed about the only thing that people pick up on is that I talk a lot slower, and my work performance drops away to just about zero. Luckily I don't get suicidal, I made a pact with myself (17 years ago) on the worst day of my life that I would never take my own life no matter what.

I wonder if depression is really somehow comorbid with AS/HFA, or if is simply that we spend too much time alone and too much time dwelling on things and thinking too much.

I know that, on a scale of 1 to 10, my worst depression probably rates about a 5 compared to what I have seen other people go through. I think that it is pretty shallow to say that because you or I have been able to cope with depression then anyone who finds it more difficult to cope is somehow weak.
 
I don't mean its weak to not be able to cope with depression, I know how crippling it is. Not all of us go after constant pity though. I could take my own life, and when i'm not even depressed really. Its more of, this world and me don't go together too well, and it get very tiring.
 

New Threads

Top Bottom