I'm feeling very empty right now, and I don't know why

It's strange, for the last few hours I've been feeling very depressed. I don't know what caused it, I spent a very good night with some close friends, we ate, I drank, we laughed, yet right now it feels like I have a weight on my chest.

Its human to feel that way, sometimes.

and perhaps it's just something I ate tonight or something else equally as stupid, but it still is pretty weird.

I've been sitting here trying to figure it out. My daughter just came home and told me she and her boyfriend broke up. I was glad she was home. She just quit her job at an ice cream place she has worked at for 3 years and I feel a little bummed about that but I don't know why. She is just 16 and a sophomore in high school.....I don't want to go to work tomorrow night but that's nothing new....I can't figure it out. It's like I just wanted to cry for some odd reason. I still kind of do. I don't understand it but it's wierd that you've been feeling like this in the last couple of hours, too! I keep thinking about all the Rumsfeld problems, oh just all the problems in our world and it makes ME feel like I have a weight on my chest. I can't believe you feel that way right now, too.

I've come to the conclusion, after years of having to deal with psychiatrists and counselors, that depression is something that is as natural as being happy. We exist for the most part on a plane in between bliss and melancholy. Sometimes we're happy, but we always drift back to complacency. Sometimes we're sad, but we, for the most part, come to grips with it and improve. We aren't happy, but we aren't sad either. We just are. People who go around pointing out depression in others and being chipper all the time are just as mentally ill as those who go around depressed.

Just my $.01.

solutions that will work. That makes me feel kind of empty and worthless.

Seems like there are so many things to do that you can't do them all and you just freeze, unable to do anything.

I had control issues for a long time. We all desire to manipulate life to fit into our preconceived notions. The thing is that there are other, often stronger forces pulling in other directions. We want people to behave as we think they should, but people want to behave as they think they should. We want the world to exist as we think it should, but millions of earth's citizens want it to exist as they see fit. We want so much, yet can control so little. It is better if we try to affect change but accept that which we cannot alter.

Change what you can, let go the things you can't

You are right, though.

how temporary that feeling of affinity can be. Of course I am just grabbing here since I don't know your other circumstances..but that was what came to mind.
Hope it is only a transient experience.

for trying to put some perspective on things. Hopefully this feeling will pass before too long and I can go to bed tonight.

One night, I just suddenly had this incredible overwhelming feeling that something terrible was going to happen. I couldn't explain it. I was very anxious.

I contacted my mother, got one of her Valiums and went to sleep.

Two days later, I had forgotten about it.

No biggee. It happens.