Is the Villa making you depressed?

[The Situation]

As much as I'm trying to enjoy life right now and try and forget about our 'crisis' the thought of ''Villa in the bottom 3" is always lurking in the back of my mind and pops up when I don't want to be reminded of it. I'm just feeling depressed about football in general, I want to try and enjoy football and dribble whilst watching Messi score another fantastic goal, but for some reason I just can't - being so worried about Villa right now is stopping me from enjoying football. It is actually despressing, serious.

Is anyone else feeling the same way?

[wif]

the Villa started making me depressed, but the Heroes and Villains Discussion forum is making me reach for the shotgun...

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Need any cartridges, Wif?

[darren woolley]

Well i suffer from depression anyway so this mess we are in does not help when we are winning i seem to pick up but because we poor at the moment it just makes me worse but coming on here and chatting about it kind of helps as i don't have to keep it bottled up. 

[wif]

Need any cartridges, Wif?

Like Emile Heskey, I'd probably miss anyway.

[TheSandman]

Yes. Very much so.

Whilst it's not really bad (nobody has died) our general shitness is weighing on my mind.

[Olneythelonely]

It's causing me to be a bit down, but depressed, don't be daft.

[avfcpg]

Depressed, Annoyed, Angry, Upset, Frustrated....yep. Will make the highs so much better though....

[LeeS]

I feel a bit torn.

Whilst I've surprised myself at how non-plussed I feel about us being relegated, I'm also enraged by the appalling tactics on the pitch and lack of leadership off it.

Its like I dont mind being at the bottom per sé. But i do mind watching the car crash that is keeping us there.

[MoetVillan]

Its my second full season with season ticket.  And I thoroughly love going to every home game.  Results hurt, im not kidding you.  Sometimes you wonder why bother, tickets are expensive, and getting there takes time and money.  We are down to one income at home, as my wife is training to be a teacher now, plus we have found out we are expecting a baby this year.  While absolutely delighted (it will be a boy, it will be a striker, and it will be comfortable with left or right foot shooting....no pressure), practicalities determine I probably will have to give up my ST next year for the price and time involved.  And that guts me.  I love going to the ground, I still get that buzz when I see VP, thinking whovever we are facing, we have a chance of getting a result.  I love the ground. I love watching my team.  I love cheering them on, and the ST has meant being able to see players like Milner, Heskey, Downing etc develop and improve, something you cant see from odd games or on the telly.  And even better, watching Albrighton, Clark, Hogg, Herd, Lichai and Bannan come through from the youth... well, this is what football is really all about.  Seeing our team in the bottom three is bloody annoying.  Fuck this, we have a much better squad than some of the dirge around us.  It wasnt so many weeks since we were bossing Man Utd about in our patch.  SAF said it was the best team he had faced so far.  One flukey goal off someones arse and a lucky result will turn the season, its all about confidence.  We have the skill (generally) to drive up the league, we just need to light that touch paper.  Come on lads, get it going, so we can look back on the 2010-11 season and reminisce on how we went from bottom three to glory.   

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Quite down, more so at the games.
We will rise again, not sure when though.

[Monty]

Others have mentioned it, I'd be careful bandying about the word 'depressed', with the medical connotations that word has. However, for those of us for whom football is an escape from the real world, the escape route must feel a little cut off at the moment as there's absolutely no enjoyability in it at the moment. Thank God for the cricket, that's what I say.

[glasses]

Im pissed off when I return from games for about 5 minutes. I love Villa, I really do, but there are so many other important things in life than a football club I follow.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Thank god for the drama queens on here. As bad as it is, the more angry they get, the more I laugh. Thanks, ladies.

[The Situation]

Well i suffer from depression anyway so this mess we are in does not help when we are winning i seem to pick up but because we poor at the moment it just makes me worse but coming on here and chatting about it kind of helps as i don't have to keep it bottled up. 

Same. I've suffered with depression in the past and am just getting over it... probably watching the Villa makes it even worse for the both of us. I just get so tense watching the Villa, sometimes it just gets too much for me.

I never try to take sport too seriously but at the moment it feels like the sky is falling.