how did you cope? did it make you depressed?
2007-07-05 22:33:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Sure, for 8 1/2 years straight. I had a beautiful condominium, money, cars, etc. until I became disabled and lost my career and ability to be independent and self-supporting. At first it was terrible and I felt angry and scared because I couldn't even communicate with the other residents--it was like I came from another country. But I realized that bad stuff happens to everyone, I was like everyone else who had a tough break and had to survive. So I eased up and got to know a lot more about real life and other people than I ever would have if I'd stayed rich in my pretty condo never knowing how to fend for myself and make it back on my own. Took a long time to save a tiny bit of money while paying gouging rent to slumlords and being hungry, but hey, I'm OK, and sitting here in my own home--all paid for, in cash--answering your question on my own PC is my just reward and I'm a better person for all of it. Besides, depression does only one thing: robs you of your motivation and abilities to take care of yourself, so when the chips are down, there's no place for depression if you want to cope and move on.
2007-07-05 23:27:07 · answer #1 · answered by HisChamp1 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I was living in Canada for a year I lost my apartment and I ended up living in my car for a month! It wasn't too bad because I had a job at night and I just slept in the back seat during the day. I used to shower at a community centre and I would have to eat out all the time.
The only really bad thing about it is being Canada it was autumn when I was in this situation so some of the nights were really cold + the community centre where I parked my car next to was near a school and I got some funny looks from some of the parents!
Saved a ton load of money though!
2007-07-05 22:43:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I lived in a crummy, shabby house for a length of time, I was depressed, put unable to change the circumstances around me, in time enough praying and a bit of motivation, I and the home didn't look to shabby. I was not depressed when I went into the home, I got depressed later
2007-07-05 22:59:39 · answer #3 · answered by MariaAntonietta 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That would be called my university years. We coped by using our rundown house as a centre of creativity and thinking. We had musicians jamming, artists creating, thinkers writing and people doing things all the time. Whether it be painting the working fridge we found dumped by the road, building bookshelves for all the books we scrounged, holding days long jam sessions with a dozen or more musicians or drinking cheap wine and talking philosophy all night there was always something (cheap) happening. Just about everyone who went through that house has gone on to become a success in their field. Artists, musicians, civil liberties lawyers, pediatric psychiatrists, writers, business owners, sports people and leading social commentators were numbered amongst the residents and hangers on of that dingy, damp, cramped terrace house.
2007-07-05 22:39:57 · answer #4 · answered by Nodality 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Several times actually. Early in life I was young and punk rock so... just seemed to be the way of things then. Recently however my wife and I ended up in a dump although we didnt no it when we signed the lease. I would not say it made me depressed as much as angry. I coped by focusing on getting a good place to live, which we did.
2007-07-05 22:38:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A home is what you make of it...if you indeed live like this, make the best of a bad situation...clean it up, redecorate the place...sometimes we have to overcome the situation, and make up our minds we're not going to give in to the surroundings...so we get up, rearrange everything,..clean up the place, put things in order, and it gives us a comforting feeling, to know that there is sanity among the craziness
2007-07-05 23:22:24 · answer #6 · answered by MotherKittyKat 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Is that Squalor, Alabama? Anywhere in Alabama would make me depressed! (Just kidding!)
2007-07-05 22:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by edward_lmb 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In a cheap motel for a year. during a marriage breakdown.. I kept busy idle thoughts come from a idle mind...
2007-07-06 03:33:20 · answer #8 · answered by Grand pa 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋