What kind of pain are you living with right now?

[Deleted]

I'm waiting to find out if I have a brain tumor.... For real.

I wish you best of luck and hope you'll be able to throw a huge party after finding out you do not have a brain tumor. But even if you do, people can beat that shit. Do not lose hope.

[Cruor]

That's sort of the point but shows a severe lack of understanding as to how depression affects people. I will only speak of my experience because people experience these things in vastly different ways.

Imagine you have everything you need and yet you aren't capable of happiness, you know you should be happy, but no matter how you spin it you just aren't. Imagine every moment of every day being about dealing with suicidal thoughts. Every car, every bridge, every plug, every knife, every pill is a way out that your brain does it's very best to push you towards all day, every day.

Depression is near on impossible to describe to people who don't have it or have not experienced it. It changes everything and takes very last ounce of joy, comfort and gratitude you have, leaving a barren husk, a void that cannot be filled, cannot be sated, cannot be alleviated.



I'll have it.

So why do we only hear about this recently, and only in rich countries? I think people need perspective and need to re evaluate life.

[WskyDK]

None.
Have the occasional ache after a three day stretch at work (ICU nurse), but nothing major.

[Lionwoman]

Existence.

This plus horrible back pain. Cannot even crouch.

[Moralgy]

Lower back and right shoulder pain. Also extreme emotional pain from time to time where I just sorta have tears out of nowhere.

[Polyxo]

I'm a retired pro fighter, and high level judo player. Played football, rugby, ice hockey. I wrestled and boxed, played kyokushin and muay thai as well. Both my knees are in pretty bad shape. My right hip's running out of cartilage, both of my wrists are just kind of stiff and don't operate very well when they're flexed back. Both of my shoulders could use a debridement on a few ligaments. I'm also in the beginning stages of ddd. I have general pain pretty much all the time there, but I keep training at a very high level oly weightlifting gym, and that helps to hold me together.

[Doctor Funkenstein]

Psychological, mostly. I'm severely agoraphobic and practically unable to leave my house without crippling anxiety and other issues. It's particularly vicious because I like not leaving my house and I despise interacting with people face-to-face, so it's really difficult to overcome. Which, of course, leads to feelings of depression, angst, self-loathing, and the like.

Physically, just the aches and pains of growing older (I'm in my 50s). Thankfully arthritis hasn't been an issue yet; that's the one I'm dreading the most, particularly in my hands since communicating online is pretty much the only social interaction I have.

[Enfilade]

Nothing because I'm Vegan and hit the gym 6 times a week.

[bearlolzx]

worldofwarcraft took my back and my vision lost best years of my life could of been an athelete or scientist but instead 99% wol is my only talking point on a resume

[mafayu]

Move on. Or end up a recluse for the rest of your life.

I chose the recluse option. After the emotional nightmare my ex-wife put me through I would never be able to be with another woman. I couldn't put someone through the horrors of dealing with my scars. On the bright side, I enjoy being able to have no emotional ties. It feels good living for me.

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So why do we only hear about this recently, and only in rich countries? I think people need perspective and need to re evaluate life.

I think we hear about it recently and in rich countries because these are the times and places that would have the means to understand mental illness. It's foolish to think that depression doesn't exist outside of recent times and 1st world countries.

[Airlick]

My lower back is killing me. Had a very rough, almost 40 hours long journey with a very heavy suitcase, and now I'm paying the price for overlifting and being boxed in uncomfortable positions for such a long period.

[Serpha]

My mother in law...

[Daedius]

A stiff ankle, happens after waking up or if I don't move for awhile.

[endersblade]

The financial kind.

[gaymer77]

I'm bipolar but on meds religiously for several years now. I have had suicidal thoughts & attempts but since I got on meds for my bipolar things have gotten better. I have mild arthritis in both knees from playing sports in Jr & Sr High school that makes it difficult to walk long distances. I have a pinched nerve & 2 bulging discs in my lumbar spine that is going to require surgery to fix (this is AFTER I had surgery in Dec to fix a different pinched nerve in my cervical spine). I have IBS.

[OnlineSamantha]

My foot feels broken. Have a doctor's appointment to get it checked out in about 2 hours.

[schwarzkopf]

Enough that death will be an upgrade, but not enough that I want to do the dying bit.

Knowing that if I had $200,000 - I'd be able to live is a bitter thing to know

[socialmaker]

I have a nasty case of plantar fasciitis especially in my left leg. Damn pain doesn't want to go away.

[Dellis0991]

Stressed the fuck out, my nephew has cancer and my lil sis is going to have to move in with me, I ain't been laid in 2 months and bills....bills bills bills.

[Zuben]

Tinnitus. Last night it seemed to have reached a new level thought for now it resumed back to what I'm used to. Hopefully stays that way.