prone to a specific depression...

[MC Moot]

Sometimes I am overcome with instant melancholy or grief…particularly when I see or am with people with significant handicaps, such as being wheelchair bound or sight impaired…just people who face these massive challenges…it makes incredibly upset…it’s not a pity thing it’s a compassion thing… multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy,spina bifida, paralysis, etc,etc…it crushes me hard…I just think about how irrelevant my hardships maybe and become terribly sad…it’s just occurred with someone touring our building but it happens to me wherever I may find myself at,on the street,in a store,wherever…does this happen to you?...do you feel this way?

:(

[kaiser soze]

Just remember that these people are probably not depressed by their situation and definitely many would not want you to feel sorry for them, this is their life and for many it's been that way since they can remember so it is normal to them.

Then remember that you are healthy and be thankful

[MC Moot]

^that's solid...and I do try and thought process that way...I think that by trying to be empathetic I get wrapped up in it…Like how do you get by?...how do you get out of bed?...how do you find a life partner?...do they have good friends and an effective/active support system?…in my idealistic world people with such disability’s would not only be accommodated by society but celebrated and revered… …with every comfort necessary made available to them on their journey through this life… not unlike some indigenous cultures used to believe/practice…how could I laugh if I knew they were down?…

[Nuzzolese]

Maybe you could try giving them money.

[MC Moot]

Maybe you could try giving them money.

no...if I walked as tough as I talked i'd give them my time...

[Nuzzolese]

no...if I walked as tough as I talked i'd give them my time...

They'd probably rather have the money. I would. Or you could build them some ramps or railings. Or give them one of those claw grabber-things. Would any of this work to make you feel better?

[Adam]

Just remember, there is the same % of d.bags in those suffering those type of disabilities as there is in the rest of the general population.

Giving them money almost sounds insulting to me. Treating them like you'd treat any other ass hole would be a better thing.

[Dorothy Wood]

I feel this way with the elderly. When I was younger, I watched this special on mistreated elderly in hospitals and retirement homes and just started balling.

hidden camera footage of an orderly beating up on an old man nearly sent me into hysterics.

you should watch Murderball, those wheelchair dudes get laid more often than able-bodied dudes.

[paul jones]

Maybe you could try giving them money.

or facebook farmville gifts like Echewta suggested to rirv in another thread

[Nuzzolese]

You could give them a farmville gift, or you could teach them to farmville. Which would be the more valuable gift, I ask you?

[camo]

My mate Craig whom I recently met is wheelchair bound. The first time I met him I was pretty wasted and we were having a chat about the gorgeous singer who was playing in the bar. I remembered him saying that he thought it was cool that I didn't pussy foot around him and his predicament even though I had just met him. I christened him 'wheels' too.

The following day we all met up for some lunch and he tagged along and sat next to me at the table. He mentioned how I was the of the few people to ever meet him and not make him feel awkward about his chair or how he would 'interact' with the opposite sex (you know what I mean). Apparently a lot of people ask him how it happened or was he just born that way. He felt intrigued enough to know why I never asked him. I just said that it would be an awkward question for me to ask to procure knowledge of no use to me.

I think it's just best to be normal and not to be upset or down over something that these people have had to get over without you.

Craig matches me drink for drink, he dances like a complete moron like me, it's just that he's got wheels and I've got two left feet.

[Nuzzolese]

So why don't you and wheels just go marry each other already? Jeeze, get a room!

I used to get really depressed when I saw the injustices in life. But then one day I saw a philosophy some wise sage had carved into a plaque hanging on a wall, and it changed everything for me. It said ... "Live Well. Love Much. Laugh Often."
*tear*

[rirv]

I don't have any compassion, it worries me. I understand the seriousness and sadness of situations but it doesn't particularly bother me.

[Planetary]

I don't have any compassion, it worries me. I understand the seriousness and sadness of situations but it doesn't particularly bother me.

this is probably a normal thing. i'm the same, though i do find myself more inclined to hold a door for a wheelchair person or a 45 chromosome have'r