How to deal with depression?

This just may not be the right "lifestyle" for you. In all the years ive been involved with trucking what i have found is those that want only a job and a normal life find trucking to be just to much and not worth it. I on the other hand find this "job" to be a pretty darn easy kickback lifestyle. So much so that i find myself thinking im glad i dont have to go back to work again.

 

I commented before i read all of the comments and while reading all of them it made me realize this is a bigger problem then i thought. Many years ago i was part of a team. It was only for a short time , couple months i beleive. I could tell there was something wrong with him but couldnt figure it out. While on home time over christmas his girlfreind called me to tell me he had commited suicide. Looking back i started putting things together and realized he had to have been depressed and not just angry because he was doing a "job" he did not want to do. See a doctor. Tell the doctor how you are feeling. I have 3 docs in my family and they say one of the worst things about depression is many people dont realize it. They just think life sucks and thats it. Then there driving partner gets the call that they ended it.

 

Yeah, deal with some of these coldhearted people at shippers/rcvrs, dot, and sometimes a cold dispatch. Also, don't get me started on the hours of loneliness and cold rainy nights where all you can think about is cuddling up to somebody for warmth and comfort.

The road can be a cold and unforgiving place. Still, some people are able to learn coping mechanisms to deal with negative thoughts and the occasional deep depression that may come over you while on the road. The one thing that I know for a FACT...if you have bipolar disorder, depressive disorder, or any other disorder that is from a chemical imbalance... GET HELP FROM A PROFESSIONAL ASAP.

 

Many dark rainy lonely nights. Mean people out there driving forklifts and sitting in guard shacks. None them will snuggle. Then come on here and even more mean people saying hurtful words..

 

You have no idea of the horrible statement you made.

When it's summer for example on our 5 cubic foot chest freezer humming at -10 quietly filled steaks, roasts etc. There are either two 30 pound cats full claws and fang and inseperable or one Lion of a 16 pound cat with full teeth and claws. That freezer in the summertime when it;s 'ot for its fur is the one place it will put you into the hospital down to the muscle or bone provided your too stupid to stop your efforts to abuse it.

That freezer will be a while. We usually went out to eat, came home to find all of them in the middle of the bed or each other specifically purring and content in a very special vertical hidelyhole with a ear following around home.

If you want some real fun get yourself a Shepard or a malaoguis. (Spelling) Or better yet a pair. Such as one big yorkie that will see, ear and know EVERTHING through the whiskeyrs paws and even the soul in the things we cannot see. It's calling without fail will bring on one of he bigger ones in a moment to see if there is something chomping to need doing.,

 

I might add....
That person has no idea. If you ever hit a dog. That dog will never forget it. Ever..

 

There IS Indeed a certain... hate you acquire along the way.

However... I feel very fortunate that my Trainers, a few in particular made #### sure that if something is going down it;s going to be over relatively in short order. OR... I am not around when they are tearing another driver up about abusing me as I as a deaf driver or something special stupid... it would at that point become a two or three on one loudmouth lout with me being particularly warlike. I usually found out about 300 miles down the road when trainer asked to break first aid kid which we would keep and evolve on as we rolled.

Some of the situations I learned out, as just to the limited Amount I am told, I filed away into a sort of a place where if it is met again, the automatic is response and instant. No discussion. I hae learned that the other party usually has a very hard time having a hey you! come here to me when I am leaving. At that point they can be aggressors or leave it be. Either way they are going to have to leave it be. It;s best for everyone.

In electronic modern age it;s usually the ignore lest or in cases like Facebook in about 2014 or so, a total and absolutely destruction of the entire media account. Come to find out the interns been slowly gathering data on old uncooperative people like this ole trucker. Great, Let';s sell some stories.

Maybe I teach some of them not to forget to be Americans, to love their women, have million kinds, love the Sea, forest, mountain or desert they re on. If they can do this free from successive government oversight then we have it made. Especially when it comes time soon to see a war to protect our layaway in blood, sweat and tears to our continued freedom.

 

And I will never forget that dog. That last 4 second time stamp I have on it is etched in stone in my mind.

Ive lost horses in breeding farms and have had to chop them up with holt cutters for lab work etc, Ive lost animals in situtations whre they really didnt have a chance. But... the time.. it slows down, passes just slowly enough for us old Humans to sit and think how best to fixing the horse, Or bonsahafting a gelding that got bent once too many times by a Mare not interested etc. Or even laying in the field a few hours waiting for your leg pressure in blood and oxygen to come back as the burning, numbnedes and ice picking of a shard ed thighbone settles as you est. Espeically that you understand if that oats you made for that old ##### of a mare is nay oway off in quality, it will just stomp upu head in and you iaithad a mare yourself let LOLZ.

LIfe tends to be very simole when reduced to options that require your careful thinking and possiliby a little luck and a touch of rest to finish the work day that boss wills start yelling about while docking your pay.

 

actually you make a very good point this is something a lot of mining companies have to teach as they have rolling shifts drivers get sleepy at the wheel then stop and wonder why they can't sleep its because when your sitting your blood is not flowing to your brain as freely which in turn makes you sleepy when you stop and get up and move around now your blood is starting to circulate again and you lose the state of sleepiness. If you could jog around while driving you'd stay way more alert.

 

meow hiss hiss rowwwwww.