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What does hopelessness mean to you and do you feel it's reversible?

Hopelessness is desperation. It's when you feel backed into a corner with no way out. I think it's reversible because when you feel hopeless you often are blinded by emotion and don't see that there are in fact many ways out. Sometimes a change of pace and outlook on life is all it takes to lift the fog.

And I can't PM yet Wooger, still a Greenlighter. =D
 
wooger said:
as the title says really.. hope everyone is doing a-okay! :)
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Hope you're doing okay man :) <3

To me, hopelessness/helplessness is when you feel like you're out of options, or that any attempt you make to improve your situation will be futile.

BUT feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, in my opinion, are NOT due to there actually being no options left in someone's life, because there are always other options available to get help. Feelings of hopelessness are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, severe depression which clouds one's judgement and makes them believe that they are helpless, or prevents them from being able to see ways of getting help.

On that angle, yes, I believe that feelings of hopelessness are definitely reversible, always.
 
it means to me, no way out. it means, fuck it. it means, totally not giving a shit about anything anymore.

i think its reversible, but when you feel hopeless and youre IN that feeling [which for me is almost all the time] it sure doesnt feel like it is...
 
Hopelessness can be about a particular situation or about life in general. The first can feel liberating - the second can be deadly.
 
Ive felt completely hopeless about my life and ive felt that any effort to try and break out of it was well hopeless :\ . I have felt like that a number of times during my life and i have managed to reverse the sense of hopelessness. All it takes really is abit of good luck to make everything look not too bleak at all.
 
hopelessness, despondency, severe depression have come and gone from my life many, many times .
sometimes so bad that i have admitted myself to the looney bin .

i know of people who got their lives back by good medical help . i too have had success with one out of several psych docs.

drugs can be the culprit . no matter prescribed or illicit these powerful chemicals, over time or immediately, have side effects that can tear one's emotions to smithereens . takes a good doc to figure out if that is the problem.
 
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