How does one sound depressed?

[Doctor mj]

Well i was talking to my friend on the phone, and i was just slouching on the couch when i was talking to her, and she says to me "why do you sound depressed?" (she means i sound depressed audio wise, Im actually feeling great)

This is bothering me because, what the fuck does a depressed person sound like? I mean im not depressed, or i dont think I am.
I mean how can someone sound depressed, I mean ya someone could look depressed, but how do you sound depressed.

Well give me some advice on how this works.
You know what actually pisses me off, Im just chillin and feeling good, and people would ask me if theres something wrong, Id say im just chillin, but they are like "you look sad or angry" W T F?!?! Im perfectly happy and just wanna stay quiet.

Doctor mj Reviewed by Doctor mj on 07-01-2006. How does one sound depressed? Well i was talking to my friend on the phone, and i was just slouching on the couch when i was talking to her, and she says to me "why do you sound depressed?" (she means i sound depressed audio wise, Im actually feeling great) This is bothering me because, what the fuck does a depressed person sound like? I mean im not depressed, or i dont think I am. I mean how can someone sound depressed, I mean ya someone could look depressed, but how do you sound depressed. Well give me some advice Rating: 5

[birdgirl73]

Sounds like they're just imposing their own views on your feelings. Just keep setting them straight. I guess sometimes depressed people do get quiet or act sort of low key, but I'm naturally that way anyway, and it's just because I tend to be quiet and introspective, not necessarily depressed. I know if I don't talk with a lot of exaggerated inflection in my voice, sometimes folks will think I'm low.

Silly, isn't it? Just because you don't have to be running your mouth all the time like some idiot chatterbox doesn't mean you're depressed.

[Doctor mj]

I KNOW, Its pisses me off

[Hempamasta]

If you were sounding depressed on the phone, I guess that you just wouldn't really have much energy in your voice, I guess you wouldn't really be enunciating your words very well.. I guess that's it.

[scottw225]

Depression, sounds like many things..

The thing you hear the first, is the words..
as you listen, you hear pain..
then you feel it.

So we hear it on our primordial levels..
starting with Phase;

1. Spiritualy (results= the deeper feeling, that we are alone and empty, like we have a big gaping hole in our core)

2. Mentally (results = the endless stream of painful memories, thoughts, images, or replays of events, in vivid details. Here is where the perceptions, start to get colored and distored. A breakdown occurs with the person having the inability to maintain cognative reality skills. Where reality and fantasy blurr.)

3. Emotionally (results=the feelings of helplessness, powerlessness, hopelessness, restlessness and finally despair. here is where we feel the pain, of the thoughts and perceptions that are from the mental breakdown)

4. Physically (Last result= the actions, behaviors that are choosen, to faciliatate the continuing cycle).

What most people do, is keep doing the same things, expecting to feel different. Or hoping for different outcomes. The cycle starts to get stuck betweens phases 2, 3 4. Resulting into a deeper spiritual seperation between self and others, reality and fantisy and as the cycle perpetuates, causes the wounds to go deeper and deeper and deeper..

Generally, most folks, don't have the training to look deeper into themselve's to see that what they are treating is a surface symptom of a far deeper issue.
What we see, when a person seeks help, is the last phase of the situation. Physical.

Everyone on this green earth, will feel and go thru depressed times. From my experience and that of others. I have found that there is a unconscious level of pain towards an unresolved issue, that's going on inside the person suffering with depression that is coming to surface. Frustration, anger, un realized expectations,

Generally, if that person can resolve and start healing, with the support of somekind of person (s), who are capable of facilatiting the inner work required, the depression will start to lift, and most people can work thru it. For some, it feels like it's never going to end, or it takes months for swing out, if ever. That's when medical intervention, is called for.

What most people get "stuck" in is the wollowing in self-pity, helplessness, and hoplessness, because they are depresses about being depressed. Ego, and Arrogance start to play in the mix. They think they can handle it, they can fix it, or bandaid it up, with chemicals, Drama, etc.

Hope this helps..

[beachguy in thongs]

Maybe, you had your chin lowered and were squeezing your vocal chords.

I have an excuse for everything. :smokin:

[Its a Plant]

Well, you're the doctor.

We should be asking you~

[Skink]

Hey dude,I got some hella good weed last night,Blaze a bowl and I was like so fucked,Sweeeeet...

Yeah,i got some herb,smoked it last night...

BTW:I think the word "depressed" here was used as a figure of speech,and not actually the affliction...

[beachguy in thongs]

Well, you're the doctor.

We should be asking you~

I'm a doctor, not a doctor

For some reason, docicopter comes to mind :what:

[MegaOctane12]

Well i was talking to my friend on the phone, and i was just slouching on the couch when i was talking to her, and she says to me "why do you sound depressed?" (she means i sound depressed audio wise, Im actually feeling great)

This is bothering me because, what the fuck does a depressed person sound like? I mean im not depressed, or i dont think I am.
I mean how can someone sound depressed, I mean ya someone could look depressed, but how do you sound depressed.

Well give me some advice on how this works.
You know what actually pisses me off, Im just chillin and feeling good, and people would ask me if theres something wrong, Id say im just chillin, but they are like "you look sad or angry" W T F?!?! Im perfectly happy and just wanna stay quiet.

Fuck I get that as well, but only from women. I think women have a nack of knowing how your feeling even if you don't. Maybe subconsiously your quite fucked and she can sense that. I stopped getting that when I started exercising, you naturally start to be more vibrant even when your relaxed, when you exercise.