Someone on Quora asked: I’m 17. I used to have everything. My parents lost it all. Now I’m depressed and I find it hard to leave my bed everyday because I have anxiety attacks in bathrooms. What should I do? This was my response: Most people, when they get older and make major decisions with … Read more
Someone on Quora asked: How do I overcome my feelings of depression from only getting a tech support job while my friends all got good software jobs at reputed companies? I believe I’m not clinically depressed. I am an engineering graduate from a tier-3 college in India. There were few placements at my college and … Read more
I’ve had times of my life where I was so depressed, I wanted to just hide away from the world and just give up as it kept moving forward. I watched my Lexus GS 350 disappear. I saw that I no longer had trust from my investors. I saw that my job was basically ended. … Read more
Ego. Ego makes someone think that they are the best at absolutely everything, giving complete disregard to humanity. It completely disconnects a person from the world. Second would be depression. Depression makes the brightest days seem hopeless and usually causes a person to spin into a downward spiral where they get stuck. Getting stuck is … Read more
No. You aren’t a loser. You’re cool. Kind of like rice krispies. They snap, crackle AND pop. That’s pretty awesome. For something so simple to be able to do three distinct things, all while submerged in milk. Want to know what I can do while submerged in milk? Drown. Is that cool? Nope. Not cool … Read more
Not being able to kill myself. Everything in life went wrong. I was working at a dead end job. I lost my lover. I was betrayed. I was sleeping on a sofa. I had nothing. I was completely defeated. I didn’t want tomorrow to ever come again. I thought that life just couldn’t get any … Read more
On Quora, someone asked: “What things are very difficult to grasp when just reading about it? For example, as a male, I cannot fully understood how it feels to be pregnant or give birth. Reading about it seems a terribly inadequate substitute. There are also some aspects of the human condition such as heartbreak and … Read more
Laziness = I want to lay around in bed all day. Depression = All I can do is lay around in my bed because I hate my life. I’m so sad and miserable. I wish things would change or if I was dead. Would anyone miss me? — Originally posted on Quora. Leonard Kim is … Read more