Happy and depressed

[G-Man]

I'm in a strange mood today. I feel depressed yet quite elated. I laugh out loud and genuinely at the tiniest things, but feel also like crying. I feel alternately a lot of love and numb despair. And I am physically tired, yet have loads of energy.

I am not drunk and I don't take drugs. But it feels like I'm drunk and high.

What the fuck is this?

[pishtico pishtico]

Happy and depressed

Maybe Emile Heskey has something to do with your elation from the time of your post.

[anton pulisov]

Happy and depressed

It's probably something to do with spring, the clocks moving ahead and all that. I always feel weird in April.

[EIM]

Happy and depressed

Are you pregnant, PT?

[Femme Folle]

Happy and depressed

I sometimes feel that way when things are going right for me. I know I should be happy, but deep down, I know this is my life we're talking about and something is bound to go horribly wrong to mess it up. In spite of that, I remain generally optimistic. It's just that sometimes the emotions, they play with my head.

@EIM - Ha ha!

[G-Man]

Happy and depressed

I'm not sure everything is going right in my life, FF.

bryan, it's autumn where I am. Although nobody told the weather. 30°C yesterday, 23°C today... The only bit of rain we've had in the past few weeks of, of all days, on my birthday.

[ian.64]

Happy and depressed

I sometimes feel that way when things are going right for me. I know I should be happy, but deep down, I know this is my life we're talking about and something is bound to go horribly wrong to mess it up.

That's exactly how I feel. Exactly. There's always this feeling that life has this strangely-calculated pile of balls-ups and disasters ready to heap on those who start off the day quite happily and feel encouraged to continue the day in a benevolent and delighted frame of mind.

Almost like you're paying the price for intending to look at life (if only for a day, say) in a joyful way.

As happy as a clam are you? Wham!

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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My life's been so remorselessly shit for about eighteen months now that I'm at the other end of the spectrum, where even the tiniest things lift me to a point of almost extreme, childlike joy. I've just bought this month's World Soccer, and it's got a Euro 2008 wallchart in it. I've not even opened the cellophane wrapper yet, I'm saving the glee I'll get from unwrapping and opening it up for later on. But I started clearing a big enough space on the pinboard in my study to put it up, and in so doing found my National Trust membership card, that I thought I'd lost. Today is going to be a gooood day.

[Guest]

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something is bound to go horribly wrong to mess it up.

I'm working on trying to accept that this is what life is like - I find the continual disappointment hard to deal with. I reckon if I stopped wishing it were different, life would be a lot easier.