Pumpkin

I'm going to be straight with you. Reading a blog about depression is depressing as trout, especially when it's titled Everyday Depression and the first entries that smacks me in the face are "I'm so angry" and "Discouragement". I thought you started your blog to help you battle with it, but it seems like it's only perpetuating it and encircling yourself in negativity. If I came across a blog like that by happenstance, I would not spend more than ten seconds browsing it only to think that it was awful.

We are all different and deal with things different ways, but I can't imagine how writing about how unhappy you are will help guide you to more happiness. If you want some unsolicited advice, I would say to try to focus your blog on all the good and happy things in your life so you have a chronicle of those, instead of chronicling your sour moods and unhappy feelings.

If this is a means of personal therapy for you, that's great. And I don't want to tell you what to do with your own blogs or how to write or whatever. It just seems to me that a public blog is written so that others can read it, and diaries and journals are meant to expel your more deep, personal feelings. If you want people to read your blog, I think you are going about it the wrong way, because no one wants to read about someone else's unhappiness. No one. You could so easily turn it into a positive "This is how I am conquering my depression!" and it could be a great resource for both yourself and for others. If you want your blog to be just for your own personal accounts of what you're going through, by all means, continue. Obviously it's your own blog and you can do with it whatever the heck you want.

I hope you don't take what I am saying as too critical or personal. I am merely expressing thoughts from an outside perspective and it is by no means a personal criticism of you or what you are going through and is merely a comment on the content of your blog. I hope I don't make you feel bad, and feel free to disregard what I say.

Going to have to disagree with Shorty on two points:

1) sometimes all someone wants is to talk about what's bothering them, and that does help. It may not result in beating depression on it's own, but it is absolutely valuable to talk about what is bothering you.

2) I don't believe there's no one out there that would want to read about the depressing parts of suffering from depression. Considering many people who suffer from it feel extremely isolated by how they feel, there is absolutely value in knowing other people are going through the same thing.

I noted that it's possible that she's just using it as a form of personal therapy and added that she is welcome to disregard everything I say. Again, though, the logic that writing about depression will help you deal with it is lost on me.

I am aware of how depression makes one feel isolated. When I am depressed, though, I feel no desire whatsoever to read about someone else's depression or trials and tribulations in order to relate to what they is going through. If some people want to do that, that's fine, but that logic, too, is completely lost on me. I would rather read about how people overcame their depression and how they moved past it and what their results were. To each their own, I suppose.

I'm not trying to get into a debate about depression or cause a stir in shion's blog. I know there are plenty of folks here who suffer from this, myself included. I am simply commenting on the purpose and content of her blog and trying to offer some advice. It's just one person's words - she can take them or leave them.