Are you happy?

[the Princess]

Having dealt with depression most of my life it would be kinda nice to know that there really are people out there who are happy.

Are you happy? Just say yes - it would make ME happy! LOL

[dolo amber]

1. I'm incredibly happy

Which is really clashing with my perma-"I hate everything" attitude...wait, now I'm not happy anymore. :cry:


;)

[fluffernutter]

2. i've always been pretty happy.

i know lots of people who deal with depression though, and it is heartbreaking.

:hug: here's a hug for you Princess. i hope you smile today :)

[histohoney]

3. Most of time

Yes. God is good, the world holds lots of interesting puzzles and I have friends and strangers I can help and they help me.

[UdoKier]

4. I'm neither happy nor sad most of the time.

When I'm playing with my kids, I'm happy.

Maybe 5% of the day, I'm anxious or annoyed - seldom really depressed or sad.

But thoughts of mortality do make me sad if I dwell on them, so I don't - nothing we can really do about THAT, you know.

[Longgrain]

5. I always try to find humor in everything.

Even in my most depressed moments. I think I'm an over all happy person.

[Modem Butterfly]

6. Define "happy"

[the Princess]

8. How can I define something

that is so illusive??

[Modem Butterfly]

10. My point exactly

I'm not unhappy most of the time. My mood is usually pretty good, I tend to think positively and believe the future holds mostly good things. But there are many things I am very concerned about and want very much to change. There are somethings about my current existance that are near intolerable. If you ask me about those things, you might find I'm mostly unhappy (and given the right day, I might agree with you).

[the Princess]

14. Thank you

In a very weird way you made me feel so much better :)

[Champ]

21. This post basically covers what I was going to post

There is my answer as well.

[Rambis]

7. I will be when I see this

[wug37]

9. More content than happy

Things are ok. could be better. Not really 'happy', but good enough I guess. I struggled with depression for many years, but with therapy etc, I'm much better! Once Bush is out of office, I'll be happy though!

[skygazer]

11. Here's something to cheer you up

I've suffered from Depression all my life (I'm 44). I was so crushed by the weight of it that I could not really say that I believed in "happy". The best I could do was to say that once in a while I was not UNhappy.

Six years ago, I got in my car and drove from Vermont to California. At the time, I was taking so many pills (mood stabilizers, anti depressants, tranquilizers) that I referred to them as my "fruit salad" and kept them in color coded bottles.

Halfway across the country, I began to feel good. By the time I reached the Continental Divide, I'd stopped taking all of them. By the time I got to California, I was HAPPY!

Since then, I have not taken a single psych pill. I've had gray days but never like before. I think a big part of it is the knowledge that there really IS such a thing as happy. I have no explanation of how or why this happened. I do not really believe in a god but cannot help but think of it as a miracle.

Yes, I'm happy. And I hope someday you discover happy too. It really does exist and not just for those "other people". :hug:

[the Princess]

17. Thanks

Ya know even being in Colorado we're still on the East side of the continental divide. Maybe that's it! LOL

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. I am in a blissful state of self-ideation which comes from aligned chakras

and a balanced chi.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Transcendently so.

:)

[the Princess]

16. You made me smile with that! thanks! :)

[Left Is Write]

15. Yes.

[eyesroll]

18. Quite.

Thanks for asking.

[passy]

19. Yes to some extent.

Like most people I would say that I am content (French for happy actually) I have the beautiful and caring wife, the wonderful kids, the house and enough of a career not to worry about money so much (but I do).
Being truly happy is like being deadly depressed, it's debilitating.
I'm not saying that in bad way but one cannot constantly be happy unless one is under 10.
For me being happy is when in some way I revert to the pre 10 year-old in me. When I do something very silly with my kids, or make a really idiotic joke to my wife or when I talk for hours with friends about things that truly don't matter like music, films, comic book or even girls and boys.
I hope that depression is not the refusal to find happiness but the inability to revert to that child in all of us.
I think that if one does not suffer from clinical depression and is just feeling down, one of the best ways to feel better must be to put on rubber boots and jump in puddles or make a snow man since it's the holiday season.
I hope that those who are suffering from depression don't see this as being a simplistic and insulting post, that would make me most unhappy.

[histohoney]

20. Just a quick question

Do you like where you live?
Could a new place or a change in diet help.
My sweet and loving Papa went through about a 12 yr depression. He tried the drugs too, and therapy. It' was not until he went back to the West to AZ that it eased (He had moved to Massachusetts).
He says he needed the sunshine and the chili.
My father (A doctor) told him to watch what he ate and keep a log of reactions in moods if any. He staid away from certain caned foods and he did MUCH better.
We all have off days but he had a lot more good days that bad after the mood (He too got off the drugs).

[the Princess]

22. No I hate living here

And hubby is doing what he can to get transferred toa warmer place. I miss my friends and my step kids back east. I am sure this has a lot to do with my depression.

:)

[histohoney]

24. I hope

You can move back home soon. Sometimes I thinks some people are just engineered for a certain climate. Me I love my desert, I was not the same person in wet Waco.

[Left Is Write]

25. It might.

I am a generally happy person. I do believe that I would feel more settled, though, if we were back home in Minnesota.

[sniffa]

23. usuaLLy

but i suffer from depression too (i'm stiLL working my way out of a major dip).

but yeah, i try to be happy.

[Droolian]

26. I experience bliss through the earth beneath my feet and the stars

that wheel in the sky. Who could not be happy realizing that we are surrounded by existence?

[CO Liberal]

27. I'm At My Happiest....

...when I walk through the front door every day and find The Princess waiting for me.

:loveya:

[the Princess]

29. You are such a puppy!

I love you too!

[leans2left]

28. Basically a happy person.

But sometimes I do find myself thinking there just has to be more to life than this.

[Solly Mack]

30. Yes

[kittycat1164]

31. I gotta say, I'm happy...

despite events recently. I've had a cast on my left arm since early Sept. The doctor who treated me removed a bone I actually needed (doh) and now I may not be able to have rotation in my wrist. There's nerve damage now after 3 surgeries, but with that said, I have a great husband and two beautiful girls and a job that's stable and I can't complain. My heart goes out to you Princess, never having felt the depth of depression. I wish you good luck and my thoughts are with you. But having read the post one or two above mine, YOU HAD TO SMILE. How sweet was that???????? (group awwwww) :loveya: Take care.

[WindRavenX]

32. Pretty happy

Still some unresolved family and financial aid issues, but I feel better having met someone.

[shesemsmom]

33. I guardedly happy right now n't

[bigwillq]

34. I am happy most of the time

I have my down moments but I try to stay positive.

[Beware the Beast Man]

35. No. In all seriousness, no.

I'm insecure, fearful, and anxious most of the time. Or maybe that's just how I feel at the moment. Yet I have nothing to really be anxious or unhappy about. Lately, I've really been trying to untangle the giant knot my well-being is.

[the Princess]

36. I am sorry to hear that

But I understand it. Maybe it's the Holidays - I get extra bitchy and depressed this time of year.

[tjdee]

37. Fuck no.

I'm just SO frustrated and irritated with things.

[Dastard Stepchild]

38. I am a generally happy person...

I have my perioids of stress, but in the past five years, I can say that I have been, and am presently, a happy person.

[Bouncy Ball]

39. Personally yes

I am very happy.

If Kerry were about to be inaugurated I'd be over the moon, but for the most part, yes I am a happy person.

[davis_islander]

40. Miserable....

1998 was my last "happy" year, all down hill from there. Hate my job, hate this town, hate the world, hate myself... I'm hoping that 2005 will be better... Good luck Princess, I hope that you are able to rise out of your depression and find happiness in 2005.

[ismnotwasm]

41. Yup

Despite having a bad temper, a daughter in Afghanistan and a husband with Multiple Sclerosis. I go by the "I don't have bad days, I have bad moments" philosophy. Life just trips me out. So many things fascinate me, and to quote a song, I'm easily amused. When I'm bored or sad, I read about things like bubble universes. Just a little strange, I guess.