When it's late on a weekend and you're still awake and you just want somebody to talk to, even if it's mostly listening- C/D?

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Really honestly. If you can claim somehow to have avoided this situation during your life, please spare us your text.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 3 May 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud, certainly. I've had my days like this in the last couple of years - serious clinical depression and living alone after 23 years with one woman. A friend or two has emphatically said that I should call them any time, but when the depression bites I just feel a burden on everyone and that no one could really like me anyway, so I don't call. At least there is ILX now, and with an international board there is always a chance of finding someone from NZ or the US online and/or on AIM.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This is where talk radio, rohypnol and a life size human dummy come into their own. Get so dosed up on the "'ro" that the talk radio becomes meaningless banter, aim stare directly at the dummy and launch into that special tirade you were waiting to get off your chest.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 3 May 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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― VEGAN STRIKE FORCE, Saturday, 3 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Billion-Dollar Monkeys are obviously the best idea ever, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i turn to ilx, which eases a very dud situation.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a dud. Happens regularly every few weeks though.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I just talk to myself. Out loud.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes, it's exactly what I need.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I dial 1-900-MIX-A-LOT

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

and kick them nasty thoughts?

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Unbelieveably dud. First time living alone in over eight years and the depression/anxiety butterflies are still there, but have quieted down a bit.

And if I haven't thanked the ILx community yet for being, well, themselves, then thank you.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 4 May 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

no, thank YOU! *resumes two day bender*

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 4 May 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1993 I was living here alone for a summer. All of my friends who were here at University went back home for the summer, so I didn't have anyone to talk to at night (if I don't have to get up early, I like to stay up late, very late) so I would get in the car and drive to the 7-11 in the middle of the night, buy a coffee or a magazine, then drive to the next 7-11 do the same until I felt better again, etc. There were people there and they would talk to me if I talked to them. The feeling was mostly dud, I guess.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 4 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I call people, who claim not to mind this. I keep expecting them to rebel but it hasn't happened yet. Failing this I lie awake figuring out ways to kill possums, goats, rabbits, hares, stoats, thar, deer, cats etc.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 4 May 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

listen to silence. after close listening you will find it isn't silence at all.

― cage-bot (jdesouza), Sunday, 4 May 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

my life is so boring = my response is "dud, even if i can find someone i want to talk to, but at least it's interesting."

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 4 May 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

dud. I can't tell if the fact that certain CD's are helping me is a sign that I'm getting worse or better.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 4 May 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't exactly say classic or dud, more like a mix, a duddic or a clax or something.

It's usually the lame stuff, the weighing-down-on-your-conciousness stuff that inspires these calls, and in that it's definitely a dud. But if you've got someone who actually will listen and talk with you about it, once you've got the SHEEEIIIT off your chest, good Lawdy it feels so much better, and feeling much better = classic, natch.

It helps that some of the people I call in this manner also sometimes call me up in the same manner; like a late night crazy people mutual emotional support hotline!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud, because I have no one to talk to. I think I'm growing to care less about that, though. Internal mental workouts have had to suffice, and maybe that's good enough.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

When this happens, I write in my journal or write a letter/email.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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