h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

and everybody keeps telling me to go to a doctor.
I cannot think of anything more depressing.

Is there a reason for your being depressed? If you know the root of it, maybe try to change things?

Do you (yes, *YOU*!) feel it might help to try & talk to us? I think many of "us" have been/ are going through such stuff, so might understand more than depressing Doctor thing?

I'm having 'one of those weeks' myself; all i hope is that the next day is better, try to distract myself by thinking of others; it would actually help me if i thought i could help you.

(But also know that sometimes it's bluddy difficult to tell other folk about what it's Really Like.)





Here is a warm panda, hope it's helpful

zdt

Thanks.
My borther had the panda, well, has the panda.
I have a raggedy old couch fabric teddy bear.
His eyes were chewed off decades ago (I no longer do that sort of thing) and I drew some on with Magic Marker.

My depression is usually a seasonal thing.
This time it began about last Christmastime and seems to be traveling through the year.

My daughter is in Austin, living with old family friends, looking for work.
Before that, she moved out of the county with her mother, about June, if my faulty memory serves correctly.

It was the first time in her life that she had not been in the same city I was in.
I don't drive very often and I have no functioning motor vehicle of my own.

I am depressed also because of the economic mess. The bad people are not being punished... the folks who thought... nevermind.
I am depressed because the right supremists are not taking any credit for the previous president and his policies and are not going to think about what the current president is trying to do... there is no relationship between politics, public opinion and reality.

I am depressed because I have only three friends that I know of... and two don't live anywhere near me.

I am depressed because the company I work for keeps jerking us around, playing games with their policies and practices and they just fired our long-time field representative for a spurious reason under humiliating circumstances.

I am depressed because every girl or woman I try to chat up disappears. The only females that will talk to me are either married or crazy or both.

I am depressed because my rent has gone up while my hours have been cut.

I am depressed because the days and weeks seem to be going faster like a runaway train and I have no idea what's at the end of the line, but it's coming up fast.

I am depressed because I am only 47 and teenagers are calling me "gramps"...

I am depressed because this Aspergers thing keeps me locked into grooves of behavior that I am not certain how to climb out of. I really shouldn't be living alone.

We have much more in common than you'd probably suspect (and not just our age).

My friends here on h2g2 usually cheer me up again, though. Unfortunately, that doesn't pay the bills, but it makes me forget about them for a while.

appreciated