I’ve suffered from depression intermittently since I was a teenager. Some of these episodes have been highly debilitating – resulting in self-harm, withdrawal (where I would spend months on end in my own room, only venturing out to sign-on or to buy the minimal amounts of food I was consuming), and time spent on psychiatric wards. I wouldn’t say I’ve recovered from the condition, but I’m pleased to say that both the incidences and the severity of depressive episodes have greatly lessened in recent years.
My depression was always tied up with the conviction that I was literally good for nothing. I spent most of my life up to the age of thirty believing that I would never work. In my twenties I drifted between postgraduate study, periods of unemployment and temporary jobs. In each of these roles, I felt that I didn’t really belong – in postgraduate study, because I was a dilettante who had somehow faked his way through, not a proper scholar; in unemployment, because I wasn’t really unemployed, like those who were honestly seeking work, but a shirker; and in temporary jobs, because I felt I was performing incompetently, and in any case I didn’t really belong in these office or factory jobs, not because I was ‘too good’ for them, but – very much to the contrary – because I was over-educated and useless, taking the job of someone who needed and deserved it more than I did. Even when I was on a psychiatric ward, I felt I was not really depressed – I was only simulating the condition in order to avoid work, or in the infernally paradoxical logic of depression, I was simulating it in order to conceal the fact that I was not capable of working, and that there was no place at all for me in society.
Ethan Reyes
SHOULD I HAVE A CUPPA
Austin Wilson
>$8-billion effort aims to speed development of coronavirus vaccines and treatments latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-24/coronavirus-pandemic-act-accelerator waste of $8 billion. a vaccine is impossible and this virus has already shown the ability to brush off antivirals that should be effective (remdesivir)
i hope this vaccine doesn't come with windows spyware
Austin Rogers
Had to do a virtual privilege walk in work today. We had to set up our webcams across the room and then take a step forward if we had the privilege the woman was reading out (think she was a Muslim woman from Birmingham, judging by the accent). I couldn't hear her so had to turn the volume all the way up and shut the windows, it was boiling. Ended up stepping forward almost every time she read out a new line, not fun at all. I reckon our company must have paid her at least a hundred quid for 1.5 hours of work.
Ethan Collins
Why are American chimneys so hideous? I've had five capchas now and I struggle to identify if it's a bog vent, a boiler outlet or an actual chimney.
>I felt I was not really depressed – I was only simulating the condition in order to avoid work, or in the infernally paradoxical logic of depression, I was simulating it in order to conceal the fact that I was not capable of working, and that there was no place at all for me in society.
Not for me! All staff at my work have been told we are working from home until there is a vaccine or cure. We are still trying out a profit, developing new business etc so yeah enjoy your return to work...Within one month of it guaranteed you will be back at home with 1000+ dead per day.
Caleb Gutierrez
you envy him
Bentley Roberts
how can you fold jumpers from home?
Alexander Wood
You envy my drink of Kings you fucking nebbish.
Lucas Price
he smokes rollies aswell the tramp
Jason Cooper
LARP drink, you envy me for my jim beam
Anthony Martinez
You still haven't said why I envy you, and what about you is even enviable in the first place.