The font size went up two-fold since I read it last LOL. I am not the only one who edits posts after they are up . And the crazy face was not there before LOL. I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sore. Traps (Trapezius muscles). Ouch!

With regards to that PM, I cannot wait to get her response. She is on a lot, so it is probably going to come in tomorrow morning. Yeah, I have felt a few moments with my mate Zain, he is a REAL friend, but it would be very awkward to call it intimacy LOL.

Also having really good conversations with people in my class and even, you get that feeling . It's not quite love but it is some other random emotion where you feel closer to someone.

But that is awkward because it does have that romantic sexual connotation, doesn't it, intimacy?

That's a pretty long VM, short and sweet LOL .

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EE!!

I am having a super duper dandy day indeed LOL. Love the pose LOL. It looks like a freeze frame from an eihgties television show LOL. I have an imagination HAHA .

I sent you a very important PM like just now, hope you get it . So intimazy is when people call me sweetheart and my mum tells me she loves, the warm fuzzy feeling kind of shit?

I loooooooooooooovvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee that and I would imagine that without intimacy people would get depressed. Yeah, that is exactly what I work with, situational depression.

When I was on my old Forum, MedHelp, I earned a badge in Depression Support but I had no idea about medications and chemicals and shit because to me Depression was not about that, it was about emotion, not physical at all.

I know I am not stupid, I know that much, it is just "how do I prove that?"

Great Big Hug .

Hi Hamed!!

I hope you're having super duper dandy day!!

YES!! That IS the lovely ME in my avatar!! lol

Stress [As one would most definitely have while trying to do well in any endeavour] is a BIG reason why people become depressed. So YES - there is definitely a connection between academic performance and depression.

There is clinical depression and what I call situational depression. If a person is depressed for no obvious reason [Obvious to them - especially] that would probably be clinical. If they failed an exam - or their dog is about to die - and they are depressed - that would situational. That's how I differentiate the two.

Depression - especially among teens and young adults - is going to become even more of a problem as that 'generation' increasingly depends upon 'strangers' [People they 'know' on the Internet or communicate with mostly via text messaging, etc.] to meet their need for intimacy. As I wrote in my book - we need intimacy - we do not need sex. Intimacy is what makes us feel loved. And you need to be WITH a person for intimacy to become a reality. You can be very close to people you only know online. But it's not the same thing. There's no 'body contact'. No 'body language'. No BODY! Think of it this way. You have four dogs. You put two of them in the same cage. And two of them in separate cages - in different rooms. The dogs that were in separate cages could bark at each as often as they wanted to. But they couldn't see each other and couldn't touch each other. Of those four dogs - which one [Or more] do you think would be more content - feel more loved? It's the same for all animals - including us! And without that love - without that intimacy - we all become depressed.

As for how I did in school - I did horribly. And depression played a BIG part in why it is. I passed by the skin of my teeth. And as a result I have always had a difficult not believing that I was stupid!

GREAT BIG HUG
Craig!!

I am good . In my bed listening to Coldplay . Is that you in your avatar? Hey, Craig, do you know much about teenage depression, as in kind of statistically?

I am studying for my exams now, there is a MAJOR exam and there is also a Trial, I am doing the trial in a few weeks. You reckon there is a connection between academic performance and Depression?

How'd you go in your exams LOL? .

Morning, Craig . How are you this fine morning in Sydney?

Done. You thought Gonzales was speedy hehe .

New PM is about to be sent. I sent it to the wrong person, so this new person is going to get an email addressed to "Craig" and her name is defs not Craig LOL.