Depression and BiPolar
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I took this at Deer River, which goes to show that even the most gorgeous places can be home to subtle as well. Read about Deer River here on on my blog.
Be kind to people, spread love, bring smiles. You never know what people are dealing with behind their masks. ♥
I'm starting a new series in which I try to portray different mental disorders, or the emotions of the person affected behind them.
Today depression.
AI composition.
It's weird how and when depression can hit you, because sometimes it comes out of nowhere. Sometimes everything can be going great in your life, better than they've ever been, and out of no where wham! Like a big rig slamming into you it just hits, you don't know why, there's nothing "wrong", nothing happened, you just all of a sudden feel down.
It's hard to even talk about, because what is there to say? Someone asks what's wrong, and the only response that really comes to mind is "I don't know". What do you do when it hits, when you're not a person who goes through it regularly enough to have a fix ready? When you're someone who doesn't take medication, or have a therapist, and you're just all of a sudden just feeling like complete and utter shit despite nothing you can think of being wrong?
I have answers for a lot of life's questions, I try to share them with you every day to help those who need it, this though is one I still haven't figured out.
Taken at Quoted Memories.
Quoted Memories
At a time in my life, I would experience depression in the fall. The dying leaves and changes in color, and temperatures, were a forewarning of the cold winter weather to come.
Today I see splendor in the natural cycle that must take place for the trees to survive. The veins that supply water to the leaves shrink, to preserve the tree. Thus the leaves change color and die. And come spring, the veins reopen, as the tree gives life and blossoms once again. This cycle is amazing.
Rural Fresno County
Take thee even or take thee odd, I would not sleep here if I could,
Except for the memories and the stillness that now resides.
(With apologies to Archibald McLeish)
Sometimes I just wanna shoot something scenic. Through the eye of the lens even things decayed have a natural beauty about them.
Main Station and Fuel Pump by: -ANHELO
Set by: Me
*Working Towards a Better WorldUntil you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it. - Geoffrey Boycott
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. -Jeanette Winterson
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it. - Rosalynn Carter
Depression is the inability to construct a future.- Rollo May
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Hakuba is a municipality located to the north of Azumino Valley. It is in the same tectonic depression called Fossa Magna (Itoigawa - Shizuoka Tectonic Line) as Azumino and Suwa, but in the different watershed of the Himekawa (姫川) river that rises in Hakuba and flows northward into the Sea of Japan. Hakuba municipality calls the watershed Hakuba Valley.
Hakuba Valley is famous for the heavy snowfall in winter that is caused by the northwestern monsoon across the Sea of Japan. It is only 50km to Itoigawa (糸魚川) in Niigata prefecture (新潟県) on the Japan Sea coast. Hakuba and Otari (小谷), its northern neighbour, heavily depend on ski tourism.
This photo was taken from a Iwatake gondola lift.
I took 32 images of this composition, I achieved this photo after the 6th image and another 26 images chasing a recreation of the effect, I didn’t, I came close but no cigar. I didn’t envisage this photo before I took it, it was the result of experimentation. The composition of a single exposed rock was chosen to line up with mist muted sun radiating across the sea using a reverse ND grad. Right exposure but the shutter speed was too fast so I added a 6 stop ND filter, this slowed the shutter speed from 1/10 of a sec to 1.3 seconds with a couple of tweaks of the ISO, then hey pesto this lovely whirlpool effect around the rock, as soon the dark image flashed on the lcd I knew I had something, it was a bit different and so I found out not to be repeated. Have a nice weekend.
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Since last night I'm feeling quite depressive because of the never ending nonsense named 'lockdown'.
Now everybody can proof that there isn't and wasn't a pandemic situation at all;
but governments don't end their course!
My power slowly goes away ...
[15. Juni 2020]
When It All Falls Down.
The darkness tries taking over me at night
I’m not afraid anymore
I walked through the fire and I made it, I made it.
Got myself up off the floor
I was locked in a cage of my own damn state of mind
Depression don’t you call
Depression don’t you call
You’ll get a busy tone
The darkness tries takin over me at night
‘Oooh’ No warnin’ when it all falls down.
Yeah
When it all falls
I’m not ashamed anymore
When my light fades away, I won’t fake it, won’t fake it
Cause now I know I’m not alone
Everybody got their own shit, bad days, pain to face
Depression makes you small
Until you see you’re powerful
The darkness tries takin over me at night
‘Oooh’ No warnin’ when it all falls down.
Yeah
The darkness tries takin over me at night
‘Oooh’ No warnin’ when it all falls down.
Yeah
When it all falls down.
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Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease your ability to function at work and at home.
Depression affects an estimated one in 15 adults (6.7%) in any given year. And one in six people (16.6%) will experience depression at some time in their life. Depression can occur at any time, but on average, first appears during the late teens to mid-20s. Women are more likely than men to experience depression. Some studies show that one-third of women will experience a major depressive episode in their lifetime. There is a high degree of heritability (approximately 40%) when first-degree relatives (parents/children/siblings) have depression.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for its crimson-colored hoodoos, or spire-shaped rock formations. The park’s main road leads past the expansive Bryce Amphitheater, a hoodoo-filled depression lying below the Rim Trail hiking path. It has overlooks at Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, Inspiration Point and Bryce Point. Prime viewing times are around sunup and sundown.
During the Great Depression my mother’s parents did everything they could think of to keep their family fed and sheltered. Among other things Grandma became a dressmaker in their home and Grandpa made jewelry. My mother passed these earrings along to me before she died.
For the “Earrings” theme at Smile On Saturday.
And for the "Earrings" challenge at "Weekly Theme Challenge"
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Last night I was at the bar. Everyone was normally drink beer. Yesterday we drank vodka, Fernet and tulamore. Tulamore no longer. Everything we drank. WHY? Lawyer, a truck driver, programmer (that's me) and random prostitute. We are all depressed! The truck driver told how to carry pipes to the city of Dachau. We increased depression and we drank and drank and drank!
I composed this image of an abandoned historic farm building while visiting the hamlet of Rowley, Alberta (population 11), a place now characterized as an Alberta ghost town.
For those interested, the history of this town is presented below.
Rowley (like many other prairie towns) was settled around 1910 by the families of nearby farmers to efficiently collect and load farm products onto trains bound for Calgary. The soils in the Rowley region are ideal for agriculture due to their high fertility.
It wasn’t long before the town of Rowley became a hub of activity: large fields were planted, harvested, and transported through the Rowley train station. Between 1915 and 1929, the local farmers built stores, banks, and other services in town so that they didn’t have to travel long distances to get what they needed. A school, post office, and church were built and Rowley was officially connected by rail to the rest of the province.
The Great Depression experienced across the entirety of North America had no mercy on its relentless tear across western towns. Rowley was no exception to the struggles of widespread drought and market collapse.
The grain industry lost most of its value. Farmers – used to dealing with hardships – toughed the economic ruin out and did their best to provide for their families and continue building the community despite the market. Farmers who had overextended themselves upgrading their farms and livelihoods were left being unable to afford the upkeep of their farm and business in town began to close.
By the 1940s people started packing up their belongings and using that new train station to leave town. Rowley, Alberta was in decline. The municipal district office was moved out of Rowley and fires had leveled many homes and businesses.
When Alberta’s highway system was constructed in the 1950s, Rowley was bypassed entirely and left behind. These roads made it easy for young people to leave Rowley in favour of Drumheller, Calgary, or Edmonton. In the 1950s, both the hotel and curling rink burned down and were never replaced. The school and railway station both closed down in 1965.
Depression and anxiety is something that a lot of you are familiar with, I think? I don’t bring mine up into the light often in SL and my stream is rarely… dark nor gothic. SL and the people i've met in here have always played a huge role in me getting a better handle on this and I’ve always felt if I let it creep up too often, it’d somehow consume this other life as well. So I keep it minimal.
But there are days… those days when you feel like the voices of self doubt and worry just incessantly whirls around in your brain. I’ve been feeling that quite a bit the past couple of weeks, its like a slow steady thing that builds up. Nothing serious, cause at least now I know when it builds and address it — so nothing to worry about!
I just wanted to… put it into an image some way, try to tackle it the best way my soul knows how.
George Segal's famous "Depression Bread Line" (The Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey)
(The textures by SkeletalMess.
Thank you very much, Jerry Jones!)
"Depression feels like something dark and rough, eating you from the inside. It feels like sharp, jagged rocks, forming from the inside of your heart. Slowly, piercing through every cell of your heart, jutting its way outside. Until finally... finally... it consumes you. Then, you become one with it"
Socotra cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis is endemic to Arabia, found nowhere else across the globe apart from the Arabian Gulf and Arabian Sea.
Socotra cormorant is among the most skilled fish-catching birds in Bahrain and Arabian Gulf. It dives more than 10 m chasing fish underwater.
The nesting colony of Socotra cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis on Hawar Island, south of Bahrain, is among the largest in the world. As the case with other cormorant species, nesting colonies of Socotra cormorant fluctuate widely in size over time.
Socotra cormorant lays eggs in small depressions in the ground with thousands of dense nests forming sizable breeding colonies. As such, heavy rain and cold winter temperatures often lead to mass mortality of eggs and chicks.
Seagulls are among key predators of Socotra cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis on Hawar Islands. Despite continuous protection by parents, gulls succeed to prey on cormorant’s eggs and young chicks.