Comments on: Looking sad http://transabled.org/thoughts/looking-sad.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:03:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Kyla http://transabled.org/thoughts/looking-sad.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1559 Kyla Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:59:54 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/looking-sad.htm#comment-1559 I understand that chronic sadness thing. I've been repeatedly diagnosed with depression, and had all manner of anti-depressants prescribed for me. None of them have been effective, nor will they be, because none of them addresses the underlying causes of the depression. Being forced to live in a role to which one is not suited, with very little hope of ever seeing it corrected, can bring depression, despair, and hopelessness, and that will show as sadness in the eyes. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing myself a disservice the times that I can fake a smile, and say 'fine' or 'okay' when people ask how I am - because people prefer to believe that, rather than look for the truth. I understand that chronic sadness thing. I’ve been repeatedly diagnosed with depression, and had all manner of anti-depressants prescribed for me. None of them have been effective, nor will they be, because none of them addresses the underlying causes of the depression. Being forced to live in a role to which one is not suited, with very little hope of ever seeing it corrected, can bring depression, despair, and hopelessness, and that will show as sadness in the eyes.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m doing myself a disservice the times that I can fake a smile, and say ‘fine’ or ‘okay’ when people ask how I am - because people prefer to believe that, rather than look for the truth.

]]> By: Marie http://transabled.org/thoughts/looking-sad.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1526 Marie Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:00:30 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/looking-sad.htm#comment-1526 I think people get used to it. After I came out to my mother she said she always wondered why I was so sad all the time. That raises the question of whether or not she was ignoring it or didn't know what to say to coax me to confessing things. I think people get used to it. After I came out to my mother she said she always wondered why I was so sad all the time.

That raises the question of whether or not she was ignoring it or didn’t know what to say to coax me to confessing things.

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