Tomorrow is my birthday, and I'm not really excited about it, quite the opposite really. This doesn't happen every year, but once in a while I get sad around my birthday and holidays. With my birthday on the 22nd, Thanksgiving on the 24th, Christmas in about a month, etc. it makes it quite depressing. I really don't have any friends, and I've been dealt some shitty cards over the past few years. I also don't have many relatives nearby and to make things worse, my mom passed away a couple years ago, my sister is in prison, and my brother is in Afghanistan.
Does anyone else feel the same way around their birthday and holidays?
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is it me or, average facepuncher
depressed kid with pectus excavatum and bipolar disorder
[QUOTE=polarbear.;33375941]is it me or, average facepuncher
depressed kid with pectus excavatum and bipolar disorder[/QUOTE]
self-diagnosed aspergers
"once in a while" you do know you only have your birthday once a year, yes?
[QUOTE=polarbear.;33375941]is it me or, average facepuncher
depressed kid with pectus excavatum and bipolar disorder[/QUOTE]
well on the other hand I don't think "i am a perfectly normal white middle-class young adult who lives in a dorm and leads a happy life" would make for much of a thread
:smith:
For me it's all about the presents! :D
And bitches of course, musn't forget dem hoes
[QUOTE=M_B;33375973]"once in a while" you do know you only have your birthday once a year, yes?[/QUOTE]
I mentioned holidays as well.
Listen to good music. Buy yourself something nice.
Get a hobby, join a club, meet new people. Play an instrument, very good when bored/depressed.
Masturbate.
add me on steam and ill play some games with ya if you want!
Skyrim.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;33376083]Listen to good music. Buy yourself something nice.
Get a hobby, join a club, meet new people. Play an instrument, very good when bored/depressed.
Masturbate.[/QUOTE]
I have a few hobbies. I just need to do them more I guess. Boredom is the worst thing in a situation like this.
Psychedelics bro. I'm tellin' ya. They will make everything better.
[QUOTE=Bones85;33376309]I have a few hobbies. I just need to do them more I guess. [b]Boredom is the worst thing in a situation like this.[/b][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Swebonny;33376083]
Masturbate.[/QUOTE]
There's your answer.
Normally I don't feel that way, but this past birthday (my 18th), I honestly didn't feel the same excitement as I used to. We all grow up eventually. As for the no friends part, you gotta put yourself out there. Get involved in social events, go out and meet new people. It sounds kind of dumb and cliche, yes, but it does really work. Find something that interests you. You gotta live your life how you wanna live it. Maybe you'd be interested in joining the military. I'm sure you'll meet plenty of new people there that you'll be friends with for a lifetime.
Your birthday is exactly one week before mine. I do know what you mean sometimes though.
[QUOTE=polarbear.;33375941]is it me or, average facepuncher
depressed kid with pectus excavatum and bipolar disorder[/QUOTE]
For each day there passes, I see Facepunch more and more as a mental institution instead of a forum.
Yeah, I'm 19 and I stopped giving a fuck about my birthday a few years ago, but I prefer it that way.
I always hated being surrounded by relatives and having that same fucking song sung to me every fucking year, I don't like the spotlight on me, you know?
The last birthday I can actually remember vaguely would have to be my 13th when I was at my cousin's house but that was the same year-span that my grandmother passed so those times were pretty vivid for me, it was the first time I saw someone very close to me die.
In fact I don't even celebrate Christmas. Yeah, I'll help my mom decorate the tree but what's the fucking point if I'm the only kid who can be around home for Christmas? Nothing even goes under the tree anymore. My older siblings are off with their own lives and not a lot of relatives can afford a trip from Canada/Germany to the Bahamas anyways.
I guess it's all a part of growing up, you give less of a shit about things like that as time goes on.
Christmas eve.
Everybody is skint, busy, and waiting for Santa. Fuck that.
I was at disneyland with a group of friends, and everyone we saw who had a birthday pin, we said happy birthday to.
Standing outside of the Indiana Jones ride, sitting on a rock, was a wrinkled, withering old woman. She had a birthday pin on, and she was crying.
Crying on her birthday at disneyland.
We didn't say happy birthday to her.
I regret it to this day.
[QUOTE=firestorm0;33376393]Psychedelics bro. I'm tellin' ya. They will make everything better.[/QUOTE]
Until he has a bad trip and becomes even more depressed
Drugs man. Nah, just kidding, find yourself something nice, get hobbies, make friends, have a dinner party? Have a party and invite everyone in your neighborhood.
[QUOTE=jbthekid;33376443]Normally I don't feel that way, but this past birthday (my 18th), I honestly didn't feel the same excitement as I used to. We all grow up eventually. As for the no friends part, you gotta put yourself out there. Get involved in social events, go out and meet new people. [B]It sounds kind of dumb and cliche[/B], yes, but it does really work. Find something that interests you. You gotta live your life how you wanna live it. Maybe you'd be interested in joining the military. I'm sure you'll meet plenty of new people there that you'll be friends with for a lifetime.[/QUOTE]
Actually, that's kind of [I]the only way[/I] to meet people in real life.
I know how you feel, I'm going through a really bad year right now. I go to a school that's pretty far away so I barely have any friends nearby. Also I'm taking an extra year to do some more courses, so all of my friends who were at school have moved on to post secondary. This all got worse when my only friend nearby died in a car accident in September. Ever since then I can go through the entire day without saying a word, all I really want to do these days is just lie down and read.
[QUOTE=firestorm0;33376393]Psychedelics bro. I'm tellin' ya. They will make everything better.[/QUOTE]
I forgot how great of an idea it is to down some mind-altering drugs and trip for hours while in a terrible mindset.
Nothing has ever gone bad during that.
My birthday is right on Thanksgiving this year, but I really only have seen it as beneficial. I usually see most of my family and it feels like a really large birthday party.
[QUOTE=Zorus;33379188]Actually, that's kind of [I]the only way[/I] to meet people in real life.[/QUOTE]
Dumb and cliche as in that people say that all the time. Of course it's the only way, but if your life revolves around the internet then you really gotta make it happen.
I was always alone like you depressed because my dad was never home and he usually talks to me so much I had a bond with him, my mother on the other hand never liked to talk to me and favors my brother over me to this day, I also had no friends at grade school, but just one random one day in the 4th grade I had nothing to do at gym and whined to the coach about what is so fun about excising, and instead he paired me with some random guy and told me to talk to him to pass some time, but he so seemingly had a close interest in certain hobbies like me. Now he's my best friend.
You'll get friends eventually, and things will change. Don't give up any hope man. Just talk to some people and get to know them, there's a multitude of people around that you might have a unseen relationship with. Don't be sad, it can cause problems later, it really hurts to be that way. And yeah I don't like the birthday song and that stuff about wishing and crap. But they have at least something there for you.
I've spent the last few birthdays without any celebration, with my most recent out here in the sandbox. You start to feel it more as you get older because it really is less special, you get less stuff and once you reached all the regular milestones for doing stuff you lose intrest.
I miss cake the most.
Happy Birthday
I've never celebrated my birthday before in my entire life (in my accumulated years). I've only bought a pizza, and buy myself something I really wanted all year. I recently lost my best friend, and everyone else that I considered friends. I'm pretty alone this year. The weather [B]always[/B] gets rainy and cold on my birthday.
I don't think I've ever blown the candles out on a birthday cake before, either. My birthday is next month. December 3rd. I hope somebody remembers and says "Happy Birthday".
But even if they don't, It doesn't matter, I don't care much for 'birthdays' anymore.
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