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Deary me.

That's good to see you are progressing and moving on with your life positively. Although it may seem a good sign that you are forgetting to take your medication I would strongly recommend you continue. I stopped taking mine earlier this year and it was a disaster and has knocked me back severely, if you think you need to change your medication or approach I would recommend seeing your GP who will be on hand to give you sound advice. Nonetheless it's great to see that you are heading in the right direction .

I have a broken thumb, quite annoying I must say.

At the game on Friday, frustrated at yet another mistake made by Aberdeen's answer the Shrek (Josh Magennis) I decided to stand up an bemoan this man's lack of any footballing ability. Some fat c**t behind me pipes up and tells me to "wrap it" or he was going to "fucking kill" me. I told him to kill me and he ran off and told a steward, I was then warned for being threatened by someone and stating my opinion on my team at the game itself. This isn't the first this has happened either.

Nah it was more on the spicy side of things.

I just done a fart that smells so bad I am actually proud my body produced it!

It's a bag of herbs for my friend...

Lost something really important in my room. What the worst thing is that my room is really small and there are very few places for something to get lost to. Stressing all day about it. Absolutely gutted my room twice as well and still can't find it!

Just done a risky fart. Almost followed through.

This is my 5,000th post. Quite the milestone. Getting all emotional.

Got a bad first world problem here! My wages (well, sick pay) has been calculated wrong meaning I have too much money in my bank account and I won't have the right amount until Monday. The advice I was given? Don't spend any money over the weekend. Cheers guys!

Do you even know how bluntly offensive your post is? As someone who is suffering from severe depression I cannot help but find it very destructive and horrible that someone links depression to not being a "real man". What is a "real man" anyway? I'm intrigued.

BUILDING BRICKS!

Just noticed this post now. Thanks for the response! As I don't know anyone here personally it doesn't bother me that people will know what I suffer, to P&B I am merely uni the Aberdeen fan. As for the Coldplay test I have my own, the R.E.M test! (No disrespect to them, decent band) but when their songs mean more to me when I'm going through a bad time! It is a good indicator!

Yes but you claimed that depression is over hyped and over publicised which everyone knows is a simple lie. If it was over publicised why is there still people out there too scared to seek help for what could be a mental issue. You also used the example of a person close to you who suffered badly from grieving. Yes it is natural to feel sad when something of that manner occurs. However there is a difference between being "sad" and being "depressed", having gone through both I can assure you when you are sad you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you know you won't be sad for long. When going through the worst of depression you cannot see an end to it, to put it simply it's absolutely torture.

I'm not one for opening up but I suppose that was my downfall earlier so I might as well share my experience. It is encouraging to see the P&B is capable of maturity...sometimes! Depression and mental illness is something that can cause a lot of damage in one's life. Sadly I found out the hard way when I finally bothered my arse to see the doctor earlier this year after suffering major symptoms for over a year. It started off with panic attacks and anxiety, I was finding it difficult to socialise in groups unless we were outside in the open, I thought I was just developing some form of claustrophobia but when i started happening all the time that was when alarm bells starting to ring. My depression hit it's worst (I hope!) in September of this year. I went through a horrible break up, quickly became disillusioned with life and I could feel myself drifting further and further away from my friends and family. Thankfully I did seek the help and I am currently going the therapy and I'm on anti depressants. It was essential that I sought the help as it was slowly grabbing a hold of my life. In order to get better I am currently signed off work and have been since October and my state of mind meant that I had to throw university after a mere 30 days. I was gutted but I knew there was no chance I could do it whilst battling severe depression. I don't education is for me now anyway, if there is one thing I have picked up from suffering from depression it can sometimes let you take a step back and assess a lot of things in your life. I have no "career" that I want to pursue (genuinely I don't, I never have and I never will) however I do have aims of where I want to be in the future, a steady full time job is certainly the long term option and the job hunt will probably begin at the start of 2013. To be honest the vast majority of this year has been a write off for me. During the really bad times I had it convinced that everyone else would be better off without me and other depressive thoughts. These are common for depression, even mild depression. If you have little or no self esteem and you suffer from thoughts like these regularly I would recommend seeking help, even if it's just therapy it will do you the world of good! For some it can be severe problems with self confidence. I also have been living quite an unhealthy diet however it's not because I eat too much, it's the opposite. Thankfully I could be doing with losing some weight so no major physical problems will come as a result but a deteriorating or vastly increasing appetite is something to also look out for. I genuinely went a day and a half without eating anything and when I did it was something small like toast or something. This is not good for any recovery, a healthy body gives your mental illness a better chance. As for your friends and whatnot I would say you do learn a lot about them when you tell your friends that you are depressed (if you chose to). Sadly for me one of my best friends of many years has not reacted that well and I get the impression he doesn't want to spend time with me or he thinks I'm a mad man or something, I don't care what his motives behind him talking to me are but I'll leave him to it and move on with my life. One of my friends has been particularly supportive and understands what I'm going through and just knows what to do but then again I help them through their bad times as well, I didn't know this person suffered from depression until they told me when they thought something was up with me and I told them what I was going through so you would be surprised how close depression can be. Can't really say more without repeating what others have said (which I have basically done anyway), fell free to chuck a PM if you want to talk or anything. I highly recommend Breathing Space by the way, good to see it has already been mentioned in the thread. Especially if you feel you are heading towards a "bad" period of time (it's not like the Samaritans, it's slightly different and offers more therapeutic help and advice for those who are feeling depressed/down, they recommend phoning Samaritans if you are feeling suicidal or if you are going to harm yourself etc). Although it's not available 24/7 its free. Here is the website (has some good stuff to read); Breathing Space Phone number 0800 83 85 87 (Available Monday to Thurdays 6pm-2am, Weekend Friday 6pm to Monday 6am)

I went to Munich in 2008 and had a smashing time. I wish our government were more liberal towards this. After all we're only sheep shagging b*****ds.

Listening to George Harrison - All Things Must Pass.

Personally I thought the 3rd episode was pretty poor but I have never found adventure call funny, personally I think its his weakest sketches. I will watch it again though as it may become more funny on second viewing like the first episode of the series.

I need a shite and by the feeling of things it's going to be a hot one. That extra spicy Garlic and Peri Peri Chicken I had last night is going to have the last laugh.

Loved it! A brilliant episode with not one bad sketch! Better than last week's episode!

All the coverage we get in this country is so horribly pro Israeli it makes me sick. No-one will challenge Israel either.