Nataly

I had a female friend tell me that I needed to get laid. My reply to her was you offering? And was her response "you fucking *wish*"!!? "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

A woman shouldn't say that about a guy unless she is not willing to take the position Dude - I'm just stating the obvious!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Just keep asking *them* really inappropriate questions.. Examples: -what are you wearing? (in a husky voice) -did you know I'm not wearing any underwear? (moan softly) -I'm grabbing my hard cock.. Does this turn you on? If by this point they haven't hung up you're in *real* trouble!!! But I think most people wouldn't make it to the third question!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Everyone seems to be missing the point.. The *real* problem is that you're not getting laid enough.. If you were, you wouldn't be noticing the neighbours!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Ah ha ha!!! Good one!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Mwaa ha haa!! You should go on Jerry Springer!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Ah ha ha!!!! I once stole a quarter from my brother's piggy-bank.. But I replaced it with two dimes and a nickel.. Then I realised I'd robbed him of the opportunity to get one of those gumballs (the machine only took quarters).. I felt so guilt-ridden, that I gave him his quarter back and didn't take the dimes/nickel out either!! Dumbass!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

I lost my virginity to an older friend's wife. *gasp*!! That is *naughty*!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Come on guys - *none* of those are confessions!! Fess up!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Post a shocking or naughty confession you haven't ever told anyone.. I'll start with a fairly tame one: Sometimes I go bra-less at work just to see people's surprise/discomfort what they realise I have a pierced nipple Sometimes it's surprising who looks and/or how bad they are at hiding it!!! Now someone else... "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

OMG - my housemate thinks I'm psycho I'm laughing so loud!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

I used to work in the UK head-office as a Financial Analyst.. Back when the UK had 700+ stores, and millions in late-fees.. It's quite hard to get that money back, 'cause it's just 5 bucks here & 2 bucks there.. Sending the collection agencies gave us *such* a bad rep, but people just don't realise how much it adds up to!! It's a dinosaur business model anyway, though.. People just don't want the hassle of bringing back movies.. Especially when you can usually just buy DVD's for less than the cost of renting them.. Sucks to be Blockbuster right now!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Holy CRAP!! What I find unbelievable is that she doesn't seem to get how dangerous she was being... Not sure she should go to jail, but she should DEFINITELY lose her license. Fuck! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Mwaaa haa haaaa!!! Ohh.. the *shame*!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Are you *kidding*? Sushi is *amazing*!! I think it's so fresh and flavourful.. I sent my ex on a sushi-making course for his 30th.. He loved it (and gave me food-poisoning!!!!). If I remember correctly, sushi means "celebration".. As in, it's a treat & therefore explains the elaborate presentation. If I'm wrong, please don't correct me - I really like the idea that this is what it means!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

You could marry... Your mom is beyond help, I'm afraid. What's the penalty for treason again? I believe it's a thorough spanking "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

I get really wound-up when my colleague (who sits behind me) complains about having too much work.. She comes in at 09:15; leaves at 17:00, and spends most of her day on Facebook!! I fail to see how she is overworked! I think the internet should be banned from work. Then *I* could work and 8-hour-day because everyone else would also be doing their jobs instead of passing on the burden to me! Yes.. I'm a pushover "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Oh dear!! I hope I don't get arrested over Easter! My mom is guilty of treason (23)! She *always* put the queen's head upside down on an envelope.. We're French-Canadian, although I don't really "get" why/how she feels she is "making a point"!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Oh wow.. I'm sure it took a lot for you to share that. I grew up feeling really ashamed of my depression, because everyone calls it a mental illness, or a chemical imbalance... There is a remarkably large segment of the population who is very judgmental about depression.. They seem to think you can't hold a job or be reliable or even that you're a bit on the crazy side. I remember the first time I owned up to my feelings to someone outside my family... It was a therapist (my parents forced me to go), and he made me feel like a freak. Years later, I admitted to having had treatments for depression on a job application - it never occurred to me that it would stunt my chances of any promotion for years thereafter. It was brought up like 3 years later, even though the medical documents I had filled out were supposed to be confidential!!! I'm not really entirely convinced depression is always a mental illness. Much like I'm not really convinced about a lot of "crazies" they used to lock up in the victorian ages, because they suffered from "hysteria". I think it's fair to say that even the experts don't fully understand "why" (otherwise, wouldn't there be a cure?!!). What can make things hard to understand is that lots of people lead a "double-life".. On the outside, they are successful, ambitious, popular, cheerful people.. On the inside, they feel empty, rotten, and they don't look after their well-being.. I think it's important to remember that appearances aren't always representative of how a person *feels*. And how a person feels could be very far removed from reality (ie: feeling alone, feeling unlikeable, feeling inadequate and feeling unhappy about their "shitty" life).. It's the thought-process that is negative and unpleasant - not necessarily the circumstances. Some people may not be able to relate to how painful it is to have sustained feelings of depression.. They could more easily understand ending one's life due to a painful physical illness, but not a painful state of mind. The trouble is that maybe some people kill themselves in an act of selfishness; some may kill themselves to obtain relief from years of suffering; some may kill themselves to remove a perceived burden on others. It's quite hard to truly understand someone else's point of view, so being judgmental about it is a little bit unfair. Thanks to everyone for sharing. I feel like it's only just at the start of 2009 where things started to turn around a bit for me - I think before then I wouldn't have had the energy to even discuss these things. But I've long ago stopped being ashamed of being unhappy - it's just not my fault, or a "failing" on my part. At the end of the day, you just don't know what someone else is going through, so a - it's not fair to judge, and b - it's not fair to beat yourself up for something that someone else did to themselves Edit to say: thanks for the hugs

See, I get that a lot. Especially since I'm a perfectionist and an achiever.. I mean, I'm in great shape, I'm healthy, I have a great family, great friends, a successful career... On the face of things, I have everything I need (and more), so what is shitty about my life? And people like me, so why do I feel like I'm unpleasant and un-lovable? I can see why this doesn't make sense on the face of it. Part of depression means that no matter what is or isn't going on in your life, you just feel miserable - nothing cheers you up. There are so many things that I keep thinking about that bring me down when I'm feeling depressed. I focus on all the bad things in my life and don't seem to be able to see the good stuff. Or I see the good stuff, but it doesn't make me feel better. It's kind of hard to explain.. For me, last year was especially hard.. First, I was upset about my job.. I left my old company to do this "amazing" role with this huge multinational brand.. It was going to be a sexy, strategic, challenging role. Instead, it was the worst admin role I'd ever done. Then I got promoted, but no one was hired to replace me in my previous capacity, so I was still doing all the shitty admin, just a hell of a lot more of it. Then my partner of 4 years - the man I thought I would be marrying any day now - told me he didn't love me anymore. That I was making him miserable and he wanted me to move out of the house we bought together. Then I had the burden of paying out more than I was earning, to help pay for the joint mortgage *and* my own rent / bills. Then I failed all my accounting exams twice, whilst my colleagues passed their exams. Then my boss started putting me between him and his colleague (they hate each-other), making work even more awkward and unpleasant. My investments had to be pulled; my paycheck didn't cover my bills; I had to cut back on everything including food... I started having panick attacks. Then I started having panick attacks at work. I lost my appetite and lost a bunch of weight - note that I was already slim & couldn't afford to lose weight.. Blah, blah, blah.. Thing is, I might easily have been just as depressed if everything was absolutely fantastic in my life... Feeling down isn't necessarily linked with something "bad" in your life. But it makes you feel like your life is shitty, even if it isn't. "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Ha Haaa!! Maybe at least that way she would have gotten the hint! Fortunately, we are not the same person - I am a French-Canadian hottie living in London and NOT a lazy good-for-nothing couch-potato "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Oh dude.. I can't help but think maybe there's a bit of miscommunication here.. Let me tell you a story: I was best friends with this girl for about 8 years. Then, in my last year of high-school she started ignoring me and treating me like I had the plague. She became really catty, got herself new bitchy friends and they all ganged up on me to form an I-hate-Natalie-club.. I'm sure it wasn't actually called that, but I digress.. For all my efforts, I never got her to tell me what happened & I never figured it out on my own. Then, TEN YEARS LATER, she tagged me as a *friend* on Facebook!!! I nearly shit a brick!! I though, hell, 10 years have past, maybe now she will tell me WTF happened! And here it was: as long as I had known her, she had had a crush on this guy.. And she turned on me when she "found out" I had slept with him. OK - let's be clear here: I *never* slept with that dork - I never did *anything* with him because aside from being a loyal friend, I just wasn't interested. After some prying, she went on to explain that I was a bad friend anyway, that I always made her feel guilty about her achievements, et cetera, et cetera. And the funny thing is all those things she accused me of doing were intended with *exactly* the opposite effect. Which if both of us had been better communicators would have been pretty fucking obvious!! The moral of the story? You're young. You may not even know yourself, her, or your friend half as much as you *think* you do. And the cruelest joke of all is that even telling you this probably won't change the fact that you're unlikely to figure this out until much later in life.. And I can only assume this is an ongoing process whereby you look back and can only laugh at your youthful ignorance (and not always in a bad way). So there. Not sure any of that applies in this case or is of any value otherwise, but it's my 2 cents, anyway!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

My brother told me over Christmas he didn't understand depression or suicide.. His rational was that if you felt so low you should just go and rob a bank or quit your job and go traveling 'cause you have nothing to lose. I couldn't help but look at him like he was from some kind of other planet. If I had to describe my life, I'd have to say I've had sustained depression, occasionally interrupted by short bursts of happiness. Most of the time I'm just generally dissatisfied with my life and not in that "dark place"... But when I do get low, I feel like I'm sinking more and more every day. I can't sleep.. I can't eat.. And I can't stop the negative thought patterns. When I'm just generally dissatisfied, then I think if I put my mind to it, or if I work hard enough, I can figure out a way through this.. But when I'm depressed I feel like I'm a useless and unpleasant person.. I feel like I'd be doing everyone a *favour* by killing myself. When I hate myself that much I really feel like there is no way I will ever be happy. And it's this that gets me thinking about what's the best way to do it. Sometimes I naturally get wrapped up in something else & put it aside for a while.. Sometimes I go and buy lots of medication & calculate how many I'd have to take to guarantee a fatal dose.. Sometimes I get excited about going through with it, and that usually kind of cheers me up & paradoxically makes me not want to do it. As for the people in my life who care about me.. All I can hope is that they can appreciate how awful it is to be me when I'm feeling so low for so long. I lose all hope of anything ever improving. I think one day I'm either going to die of something quite stupid like another driver not paying attention, or one of these days I won't be able to tolerate the combination of my shitty life and hating myself. Right now I feel like I'm just pulling out of the worst year of my life.. But I don't feel out of the woods. And I've booked an Easter skydiving holiday to try and cheer myself up. So right now I feel like there is hope. But some people are like my brother - they'll never understand any of this. "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

OMG - I had to listen to this like 3 times.. I *really* don't understand his answers in relation to the question!! It almost looks like this is some edited footage, where the mayor was *actually* being asked something different. Can't help but feel a little sorry for the guy.. Either he's a dumb fuck, or he actually didn't hear the newsguy properly. It really looks like he's answering a completely different set of questions!! Unbelievable! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss