From: doetnietcomputeren on 5 Dec 2009 10:55 On 2009-12-05 16:49:05 +0100, des popping in <des(a)des.com> said: > Your response confirms that you're 'confusing' it. People who are > depressed (by which I mean clinical depression and not the whiney 'oh, I'm > depressed!' uttered by someone having an off day) does not need a 'why', > and indeed there is very often no reason for it. *very often* here is a clue phrase. Sure, for some people, there is *no* reason. For many there is a, or multiple factors that can be dealt with sufficiently enough to allow the person to function 'normally'. However the conversation was about 'stress', not depression, which is a different kettle of fish. -- Dnc
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 5 Dec 2009 15:56 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> saying something like: >> You clearly have no understanding of what 'Stress' means, so there's >> no point arguing. > ><sigh> > >Wouldn't it be better to do something about it rather than work >yourself into a state of mental and emotional strain? Stress and strain are two differnt things - strain being worse than stress. I'm speaking metallurgically, but it's fairly applicable in other areas.
From: stephen.packer on 5 Dec 2009 16:44 ginge <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:55:42 -0000, "'Hog" > <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: > > >and frankly I wouldn't touch anything that involves having to sell to > >the retail public. > > Good job really because given your postings here are gradually > wobbling further and further towards borderline mental case I suspect > you'd not last long at it. Borderline???
From: 'Hog on 5 Dec 2009 17:50
stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote: > ginge <the.gingeREMOVE(a)THISgmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:55:42 -0000, "'Hog" >> <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> and frankly I wouldn't touch anything that involves having to sell >>> to the retail public. >> >> Good job really because given your postings here are gradually >> wobbling further and further towards borderline mental case I suspect >> you'd not last long at it. > > Borderline??? Ha! I don't commute 100 feckin' miles to work most weeks. -- 'Hog CO2 - Just hot air |