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It was 1997, Freshman year of high school for me. I had started coming out of my shell that year, started making an identity for myself after being known as quiet compared to my younger, more popular brother in middle school. I was still considered a nerd, though. I was smart but didn't apply myself...

Ants and flies I have no problem with. You'd think I'd see bees, spiders and a cockroach like they were 50 feet tall and carrying a raygun.

Everyone makes fun of me about it.

So, I had this conversation with my wife the other day about some of the "flashbacks" I've been having over the past year or so. They aren't vivid flashbacks likes you hear from people with traumatic experiences, they're more random memories. Sometimes they're things I totally remember hap...

Can one be depressed on top of other problems, say ADD or something?

P.S. Why was (triggering material) added to the subject? I'm just curious.

Thanks for the reply. I don't normally directly bring things up. I'm not proud of things and they really aren't things that assist a resume except lending to my creativity. What either happens is: once, I got hired, then a co-worker Googled me and it started trouble but mostly, on a follow-up call t...

I've read some of the other new member introductions before posting and am a little comforted to read others going through similar struggles to me. I'm a 31 year old married male who has a good life to the untrained eye. I've always been depressed or have felt like nobody has liked me. Those feeling...