It is really really hard to get help. I've been through therapy and it's difficult to feel that it works at all. It's also time consuming, expensive, and takes a long time to see any results. People who haven't experienced depression act like one visit will fix everything.

I found something called "Highly Sensitive People" that really connected with me. I scored something like 17 out of 24 symptoms. Basically, you are more sensitive than everyone else, from physical stimuli like noises and smells to emotional ones like sad movies or sad stories. I get very weighed down by "the…

I love the "am I making the face right?" part.

Terrible, TERRIBLE therapists. When I was a teenager, I had one guy go on about Pavlov's dogs the entire time. In retrospect, I get what he was saying—that you learn this habits and respond even if the stimulus isn't there—but his condescending attitude didn't help me AT ALL. Another lady compared everything to her…

Cognitive behavior therapy was very interesting to me. I don't respond well to medication and psychoanalysis (classic laying on the couch, talking about your feelings) didn't go well either. The idea that you could relearn your thought processes was a breakthrough for me.

Except that's not how it works. Your emotions (and everyone else's for that matter) are not inherently bound to facts. Even if you know intellectually that you have valuable traits, a promising future, or a pretty good present life, that doesn't guarantee you feel good about it. That's the whole point. Depression…

The biggest tip I found was to spoon your flour into your measuring cup. I felt this gave me lighter cookies (I like mine to taste as close to the dough as possible).

Don't click on them.

I'M UPSET THAT THEY AREN'T ASIAN BUT NOT SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHICH OF THE MANY COUNTRIES LABELED "ASIAN" SHOULD BE THE ONES MAKING IT.

Sales people are the same way. Even when they work FOR me. Sharks, I tell ya.

The story The Little Engine That Could, really ticked me off as a child. There were oceans between how that train felt and how I felt. The engine's positive attitude annoyed the living daylights out of me. What was it so sure about? Why was it so sure it could do anything? That train should have more realistic…

I didn't read this one. Leave me alone. #troll #trollpatrol

Nope marking you as a troll. "Wow you didn't read anything I wrote! That's why instead of engaging in conversation and arguing the points you presented against mine, I just wrote this crap instead!"

#trollpatrol

Wait, if men want women's acceptance, why don't they do what we ask and make more female characters that aren't bimbos and strippers and only around for straight male gaze?

You think men are made to be attractive to women in games. Nope. They are made to be attractive to men, ie they want to see a big strong guy save the poor helpless girl. And do you seriously think that game designers give men "nice clothes and cool cars" for women? You think us ladies are going, "Oooo look at that…

I feel a lot of complaints about sexism in video games has become aggregate. As in, since we have so few great female leads, every time there is a woman, we are further disappointed in her lack of character. So for GTA, they make a big deal about how they can't make a female lead, but they have enough…

Men's Rights Activists. I don't know if there are good ones out there, but they usually rear their head to declare women are destroying men's lives. So for example, a man here might say, "Women are destroying video games! Why do they have to make everything politically correct? I'm a dude that wants to see breasts…

It's difficult to deal with a culture that almost never puts women up front as the main character, usually dresses them up in fetish wear / stripper clothes or at least has half of their boobs/butt/stomach hanging, and then listen to people bitch and cry every time there is an article like this, as if you were forced…

GAH it's not FAIR to use the examples that prove your point! That's cheating!