something in the air?

[egypturnash]

I look over my friends page today and I see four entries speaking of despair, of desire for escape, of emotions collapsing. All locked. And there were a couple yesterday. And some over the days previous. All locked.

Oh - Valentine's day is this weekend, isn't it. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. These damn greeting-card-mandated holidays always make things bumpy for anyone who isn't living a life of perfect beauty and consumer bliss. Which is to say, everyone. Especially the kinds of far-from-normal people I'm interested in the lives of.

I dunno. I had my huge dose of collapse this December. Looks like I was just ahead of the pack...

No names, of course not. But it might help you to know that you're not the only one going through it, not the only one feeling alone and trapped in a horrible little void.

Comments

[yulicorn.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I'm not one of them. -:) My problem is more "inappropriately low enthusiasm" than "despair." I feel pretty good, actually, just not as good as I should. -:D

[paka.livejournal.com]

I really do want to escape, but it's not Valentine's Day related. More job thing and other weird timing.

[martes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been wretchedly depressed, but I havn't posted about it for various reasons. So you can certainly add me to the list of people who've been feeling like shit. :P

[slinky-treecat.livejournal.com]

Ferris mentioned that just about everyone he knows is going through a lot of stress and depression right now. I think perhaps it's the time of the year, with the days so short and all. I was feeling rather moody as well, and my doc increased my dose of Effexor and I started taking ginseng, both of which seem to have fixed me up.

[rtdn.livejournal.com]

hey I don't know what you're talking about. my valentine's day is going to rock.

[wolphyn.livejournal.com]

But it might help you to know that you're not the only one going through it, not the only one feeling alone and trapped in a horrible little void.

Thank you very much for saying so. I always feel strange about taking comfort in such a sentiment, but it's always good to recall that I'm not the only one who feels pain.

[mercurypale.livejournal.com]

valentine's day vomit!

i'd totally send you a LOTR valentine card if i could, miss.

Saint Valentine's Garters

[acertaindoebear.livejournal.com]

I'll just give you a snippet of what I've sent to some of my local friends:

St. Valentine's has a long tradition, stretching back into the Roman Era. It is very mythical, magical, mysterious. It is what you want to
make of it. Go, jump in a puddle. Make yourself muddy. Be free, or not. Take things literally, or not. Love your online loves, or not.
Shout your Love! to the world! Or spend time alone, knudging with your cat.

Check out the mythic underpinnings of Saint Valentine:

http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's this crappy winter weather.

*sick of cold and rain*
*also literally sick with flu*

[arphalia.livejournal.com]

*hugs joo*

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

Au contraire: I don't live a "life of perfect beauty and consumer bliss", yet I thoroughly enjoyed Valentine's Day with the love of my life. He blew $100 on a flower arrangement for me, and I got him a video game. We went to a ritzy postmodernist Italian "ristorante", then came home and split two bottles of champagne and a bottle of vodka and laughed our asses off watching old Jackie Chan movies. Now that's love.

I hope you find a raft before drowning in self-pity.

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[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm fine. The approaching-of-Valentine's comment was a tangent, a theory as to why several of my friends were crying into the void, none of them heard by each other.

The holiday's always seemed cynical to me in its present form; perhaps this is colored by the fact that I think I've had exactly one relationship that was local and active over the course of it, and it was in the process of collapsing when February rolled around. This year I was floating on distractions and strange happinesses and barely noticed it.

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[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

That's good that you're not upset. My boyfriend has clinical depression, so I usually have a hard time dealing with his "crying into the void". Things have gotten much better, however.