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What depresses me

What depresses me, what makes me feel bad; survey started by Robert Abitbol, Wednesday July 16th 2008, 1h 25 am


By Robert Abitbol: What depresses me? Not much except losing stuff, having stuff stolen, forgetting a thought etc. Sad to say, I am attached to objects, notebooks etc.

I guess this has to do with anxiety. I have an anxious type of personality. Thank God I am not anxious often!

In French we say: J'ai de qui tirer (loosely translated as I have quite an heredity in regards to this trait of my personality): my father is an anxious man (very anxious at that; he looks depressed 99.9% of the time), my mother was a worrier, probably a depressive woman.

Anxiety, obsessive-compulsiveness, workalcoholism, hoarding, those things are all related.

However, I don't dislike those traits for I believe they are my forte and also my catalyst in many ways. Most achievers are anxious people. I get my best ideas when I am tired, anxious...

Feeling lonely? Not often. Rarely. I enjoy my own company so I rarely feel lonely.

But anxiety is definitely my Achille's heel!

Now that I have cut all links with my siblings, I feel better than ever and I rarely suffer from anxiety.

But I do still suffer from it from time to time. Perhaps I should cut all links with my brains :-) (or what's left of it! :-))

There is a clarification I should add here.

Like most people I am not anxious for a specific reason; it's the other way around; I sometimes feel anxious so any reason is a subject of anxiety.

To be continued some other time. When I'll feel anxious... :-)


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