Is it normal to get depressed this easily?

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A lot of times when I'm at work, the people I'm hanging around with will just out of nowhere start talking about the most depressing miserable stuff as if it's absolutely nothing to them. Like someone who died from cancer, someone who committed suicide from bullying, etc. Their mood barely even drops when they move onto those subjects. And then they just as easily start talking about something more cheerful afterwards and their mood rises up again as easy as that. But that conversation will leave me feeling depressed and angry all day, I won't be able to stop thinking about it for a good couple of days. Is this normal to be like this?

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    Maybe you are very emotionally sensitive. Lots of people are insensitive, shallow and gossipy.

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  • jethro
    6 years ago

    You should find a safe place and retreat to it every day. Put some Play-Dough in there too just to ease your troubled psyche at the same time. You poor thing you.

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  • Boojum
    6 years ago

    It seems to me that a lot of the time, people who like talking about depressing stuff are basically saying, "Yeah, my life is pretty crappy and this job is shit, but at least things aren't as bad as what happened to _____"

    The same thing compels people to watch reality TV shows where people make complete fools of themselves.

    To be more charitable, perhaps your co-workers are talking about these things because they're trying to make sense of some of the senseless, horrible things that happen in the world.

    I suppose you could try asking your co-workers why they feel the need to talk about the stuff they do and how it makes them feel, but you can't make your co-workers avoid topics you find depressing and upsetting. The only thing you have any control over is how you react to what they say. Why, for example, do you feel angry when you hear about some stranger who committed suicide after being bullied? Are you angry about the injustice? Does it connect to something that has happened in your life? Does it challenge how you prefer to view the world? Or is it because you feel it confirms that your co-workers are a bunch of insensitive, nosy idiots whom you really don't like as people and hate spending your days with?

    It's pretty normal for people to talk about this sort of stuff, and I'd suggest that you just try to avoid it when you can, and work through why it produces the feelings in you that it does.

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  • Nickvey
    6 years ago

    one time i was haveing a conversation with a friend at work and this coworker said she didnt like what we were discussing . well my friend told he to mind her own fucking business . She got all red in the face. I though she might die on us. the next day she quit her job. we didnt want her to quit , that wasnt his goal , But they hired a nice hot younger worker to replace her so it was a win win.

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  • Sunshinegirl
    6 years ago

    Getting depressed at all is abnormal.

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    • Ellenna
      6 years ago

      So common it's actually normal

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