I’m new member here i just registered
I’m here cuz I want to talk or even make a friend with people like me especially who born and raised with a very religious family and country, I have been an atheist almost 5 years and no ones know that so yeah I have to pretend to be like them and that’s make me feel so depressed cuz it’s not me
So if anyone wants to talk i will be grateful
Thank you in advance
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Hello A lady, welcome to Atheist Forums. This is a good place to vent, especially if conditions in your personal life make being open about your atheism something to hide. Many of us have been through it, I went through a few years when I definitely did not want my family to know.
I don't like being dishonest, but balanced between any pain I may inflict on my family, and any repercussions, I had to fake it and lie. But I never avoided being honest with myself, I knew I was being dishonest. I did the wrong thing for the right reasons.
@ A Lady
As David wrote: Feel free to come her and vent, discuss, listen. learn or just chill. It is a friendly place to the sensible and sane. The humor is an acquired taste and NEVER take a banana from Cog....
I have been here for a couple of years now and it is a friendly place with a fair share of brainiacs who can shed light on most subjects.
@A lady: (NOT KNOWING ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOUR SITUATION SPECIFICALLY, THIS IS ONLY WHAT HAS BEEN ON MY MIND LATELY. SO PULL UP A CHAIR AND LET ME OFFER YOU A BANANA. ) This is the time of year for depression. You will hear people cite the Christmas story of depression. Take this with a bit of tongue in cheek. The fact of the matter is this. Many people feel more depressed in the winter due to a lack of sunlight and exercise. I kid you not! "Exercise is an all-natural treatment to fight depression." "Those who exercised at a moderate level — about 40 minutes three to five days each week — experienced the greatest antidepressant effect."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-bootcamp/201009/can-exerci...
I had a client come in the other day who was feeling depressed and we have spent the last 2 sessions walking around campus as we talked. I told him to begin exercising and I wanted to make it clear that I meant what I said. One week later and he has started Tai-kwan do and reports all depressive symptoms alleviated. (It's winter here. Cold and gloomy. )
I got another E-mail today from a teacher concerned about a female student who appears more depressed in class. I guess I will be doing some more walking.
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It sounds weird perhaps, but good health, exercise, activity and sufficient sleep are fantastic remedies for depressions of all kinds. The real problem is that when we feel depressed, we just don't feel like doing anything. Even sleeping sounds boring.
So, step one is to take care of yourself.
Talking and visiting is certainly useful; however, how you talk and who you talk to can do as much to increase your depression as alleviate it. TALK TO POSITIVE PEOPLE Stay away from creeps on trikes. They will just pull you down. :-)
I deal a lot with Culture Shock. It is really common for foreigners who come to Korea to form little social clicks where they bitch about classes, Korean food, Korean customs, and general stuff that pisses them off about this country. Joining such a group can send someone mildly depressed into greater and greater depression as they end up despising the new host culture. Stay away from poison people. It will serve you well.
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Okay, with all that said, welcome to the site! I really have no idea at all what may be behind your feelings of depression. Like I said, this is just something that comes immediately to my mind as I am seeing a lot of it around campus these days. There are a lot of great minds around here so come on in, share what ails you, and you will certainly get a variety of perspectives on anything and everything.
Cheers!
Sometimes it's easier just to act like you are very disinterested in religion. Don't bother to join conversations about it, don't talk about your opinions, etc. (works for politics as well -- on some sites I discuss politics, but when I come here I talk atheism.)
I personally was very sheltered growing up, (about as sheltered as you can be living in a very religious world) But if you are looking for another to talk to, be happy to chat about whatever you like to chat about. I frequent these boards a lot myself, while I do like to debate, also happy to just chat, especially here in the hub.
Welcome, you are not alone, and if you have read these boards for a while you realize there's a lot of variety among the people that identify as atheist.
I personally an atheist because I am skeptic, I question everything, and every religion/god I ever heard of, did not stand up to even rudimentary skepticism of the idea.
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