Paint it Black
 

Cliff Arnall, a British psychologist, has pinpointed today, January 24, as the most depressing day of the year (so sayeth the article in Health Magazine anyway. Reasons? Christmas bills are due, low sunlight and busted New Year's resolutions.

Today has an actual reason for sucking! That makes me feel better.

sadness has no hands to hold you
misery pretends to know you
pressure only tries to fold you
in this life we all must go through

step away and see the facts
judge you not by feel, but acts
force a smile for all the day
eventually it stays that way

According to our media it was yesterday, so chin up! You're through the worst :)

From what I remember it's the Monday of the last week in January rather than a specific date. It also takes into account the approximate date of pay for people on monthly salaries, the temperature (coldest time of the year in the UK) and those good old Monday morning back-to-work blues.

Edited to add the actual formula:
Arnall's worst day "formula" is ([W + (D-d)] x TQ) ÷ (M x NA). (W: weather, D: debt, d: money due in January pay, T: time elapsed since Christmas, Q: time since failed New Year's resolutions to quit smoking, drinking etc, M: general motivational levels, NA: the need to take action.)

Oh, good Lord...will Science never give me a break? Now there's an actual formula for calculating my precise level of depression?

Do we have a wrist-slashing smilie anywhere?

Well, there's always the instructions ...

http://scribe.fork.org/cellar/cj_30458.jpg

oh, wolf! We both know better! Up and DOWN! not side-to-side!

tsk.

Righty-o. Across to the hospital, down to the morgue. Very easy to remember.

Damn! I could have been depressed had I only known. :lol:

and today is my moms birthday!!! :neutral:

I'd be depressed but I don't have the strength. :(

Looks like up from here.

BTW, is it wise to give proper wrist slashing techniques in a thread on depression? :worried:

I feel it's a public service announcement.

It's OK, you Americans are all safe -it's the weather that adds the extra depression factor for the Brits. Over here the biggest risk is actually around November, but only every fourth year. ;)

All this time I thought it was serotonin deficiencies.

Flushes meds, I’m cured.

Cliff Arnall, you are a saint.

I think that possibly I was a little bit hasty in flushing my meds.

http://images.quizilla.com/T/theskyw...mentswrist.jpg

wow. sylvia plath summed up in 4 lines. totally.

dov likes shocking pics. However, this does nothing to disqualify him from my List of Possible Boyfriends. He thinks he's safe (by grossing us out) but, he's sadly mistaken.*


*PS--I'm pretty sure that's raspberry jam on that wrist. It has an undeniably lickable quality to it...

PPS--look syliva up, dov. she can help you.

The chunks of strawberry in that jam are way too big. I would complain.

The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray?

http://www.sdnp.org.gy/ycmw/Images/m...s/suicide2.jpg

Thank you. Her intellect arouses me. She looks doable.
http://www.ocaixote.com.br/caixote07/sylviapraiaI.jpg
Shame I am not a necrophiliac. (Sigh, been diagnosed everything but that, dammit.)
http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/arch...ges/grave1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6..._lovers_ID.jpg

I guess we all have our relative quirks.
I am not, nor ever have been a vampire.
Never remotely Goth, other that the architecture.
I love pointed arched windows, barrel vaulting, buttresses, and stained glass.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...dxxx/nave2.jpg

I have been told a couple of times that I am an interesting date. Strange thing is, I have never been on a “date” in my life. Scaring you away yet? This should accomplish it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...obsessed_7.jpg

If not, you are much too weird for me

Have you ever been told that you are an attention whore?

I'm wondering if dov is perhaps, ROOVEN from CANADA who post on Aljazeera?

What was your first clue Sherlock?

Nope, dov, always was, always will be, but don’t let me interfere with your paranoia.


Oh, btw, I love Aljazeera.

I think it was 'I'd sherlock to knock the piss out of you if I could reach you', but hell... carry on. It's your game, Einstein.

Attention whores generally don't like this place much. We play the long game and they tire after about 4 months. Just saying.

Attention whore? I get four months?

(I always get the bucks before I put out.)

I best make the most of it as time flys.

So here we go.


mmm

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...xx/feather.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Anonymous1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...mewhatever.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...our_soul_i.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...chumutchu1.jpg

:thumb2:

Hahahahahahaha

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...tion_whore.jpg

http://server6.uploadit.org/files/Perfect83-dong.jpg

http://lightsout.onestop.net/attention.jpg

And a damn good lookin' one at that!

I bet you listen to Type O Negative.

I would say he listens to noone but himself.

Is dov really gone, one can only hope.

Text must have been all too repugnant.
If you can't relate to words, there's always pictures.

How do you think 'Hustler' makes a living?

There are actually threads on this forum to display images. But doing so may hamper your attention addiction somewhat. After all.... that's where everybody else posts their weird pics. We wouldn't want to submit to concensous now would we? I mean you.

Too profound for me. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...xx/bblogo3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...dccccccccc.jpg

NEW OPTION NEEDED....................

'add this thread to ignore list'

My machine's 'screen for redundancy' feature obviously is disabled.

Hadn't looked at this thread in a while, and probably will completely avoid it from now on. My original comment still stands:

Ahem. There's a difference between being an attention whore and having people cross to the other side of the street when they see you coming. :headshake

I keep my side of the street clean. Where others walk is none of my business.

wtf is that supposed to be? my 4-year-old could do better! If you must troll/whore, at least do it with style! that stuff ain't even been chewed. tsk.

I truly adored the pretentious born again holier than though tsk.

I had three four year olds, I win.

You would never catch me placing WTF anywhere near their beings, tsk. Do you often use children for leverage?

Hope in vain, it seems.

You don’t like it, don’t look and stop wasting your time commenting on something you consider useless. You don’t have the will-power.

So much more fun pigeon holing someone to build up your own flimsy ego.

Nah, I use a crowbar for that, I find the children too squishy. They make good bog-brushes, though. :)

GEE..... Thanks UT! :thankyou: