What do you do when you're depressed to pull yourself up?

Clint Taurus said:
I play guitar and sing blues music and some home songwriting and recording.

I LOVE the blues! That's a beautiful thing you do!

Fury :rose:

Kajira Callista said:
change the air in your house. there are other toxins besides c/o that can make you feel that way.
I do this daily...turn off heat, go through house and open every window....sit with my winter coat on for 20 mins then close everything back up. Also try simulated sun bulbs in lamps. The winter sun is not strong enough to keep me happy past nov. by feb i wanna crawl under the bed and never come out. the sun bulbs work wonders on me.

Icky, icky cold air! Nooooooo! Yikes!

Okay, I'll consider it.

*pouts at the thought*

Fury :rose:
 
If Im really depressed I go visit friends and play with their children. Children always make me laugh and smile. I usually leave with a boost from that.

Othewise I hit the bottle!!! Dulling the senses seems to work...
 
"Sunshine"

Hey...

I cant have my girlfriend feeling sad... do I have to come over there?(trying to remeber where there is...lol) I wish you where still here, I have you come to my salon, I'd get your mind off everything with a new haircut, color, everything starts to get easyer when you feel like a million bucks...

Maybe you should come back to the Sunshine State for vacation sometime and come visit your girl, Diamond... We'd have a ball...

Oh and T sayd he cleans and keeps buisy... and he also said he smokes a million cigarettes, but that's not good advice... so pretend you didn't hear that last bit *wink*

I love what I do, and its great because people tell me I have a calming touch, people don't wanna get out of my shampoo bowl, they always tell me how amazingly good it feels... I am happy to be a kind of public servant... I have a way of listening... and giving postitive feedback, while helping you to look hot...

Its nice... If you can't see me, you to a decent salon, and pick the young, completely diffrent, pretty one, (that's me) and tell her what you want, and let her do her thing...

Get a little TLC babyGirl!

*kiss* *hug* *kiss* (lol, always gotta kiss 2ice)
 
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Hey, nice to see this thread bumped. I know the holidays are hard for so many of us.

BTW, booze never helped my depression. It make me a bit manic. Then it made me super horny. Finally it made me either sick or sleepy depending on how far I took it but as a tonic against depression, nope, it didn't work for me that way.

To me children can be a very bright happy thing to have around. Or they can be little mucus flowing fountains of undisciplined horror. It kind of depends.

LOL!
 
sometimes .. giving in to it.. just putting in a sappy song and crying until I'm too tired to cry anymore honestly helps. It's a relief, a release..

and sometimes, I put in movies I've seen a thousand times. Sometimes, I take a walk or work out..
 
EmpressFi said:
sometimes .. giving in to it.. just putting in a sappy song and crying until I'm too tired to cry anymore honestly helps. It's a relief, a release..

and sometimes, I put in movies I've seen a thousand times. Sometimes, I take a walk or work out..

I think those are great ideas that could def help!


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FurryFury said:
Hey, nice to see this thread bumped. I know the holidays are hard for so many of us.

BTW, booze never helped my depression. It make me a bit manic. Then it made me super horny. Finally it made me either sick or sleepy depending on how far I took it but as a tonic against depression, nope, it didn't work for me that way.

To me children can be a very bright happy thing to have around. Or they can be little mucus flowing fountains of undisciplined horror. It kind of depends.

LOL!
Kids, but only for a little while, I hear ya!
 
Booze definitely didn't work for me, although I gave it a good long try. Ultimately, alas, it acts as a depressant.

The only thing that works for me, apart from meds, is getting outside and walking. A lot. Having happy dogs along is great if you can arrange it. :)

But some days I just crawl under the bed, metaphorically speaking, and give in to it. It's just bad chemicals and sometimes I decide to just wait them out.

(For me it's just bad brain chemicals....I know that's not true for everyone.)
 
When I get really depressed..which is close to how I feel now..I go back to work. Since the children have been born (12 yrs ago) I have been a stay-at-home mom on and off. Usually whenever we move I wait a while before I start looking to make sure the family gets settled. I also try not to be working full-time while my husband is deployed. I have been out of work now for almost a year and I miss it terribly. The difficult part is that hubby will be deploying again and both kids have been having some difficulties adjusting both with his deployments and other issues.

The inner conflict between doing what is best for the family and trying ot keep myself sane is what is getting me so depressed.

I think working part-time would help if I can find what I want. i need the social interaction and brain stimulation.
 
I can understand both pulling the covers over your head and going back go work.

*HUGS*
 
keeping moving. If I let myself slowdown and start missing appointments or whatever I have found that I have a really hard time starting again.

Of course this has led to one of my previous therapists to wonder if I was bipolar instead of depressed, so maybe this isn't the best advice. lol
 
It is good to keep movie on the one hand.

On the other hand, people who have schedules that are constantly overfull always make me think they are hiding from their emotions rather than dealing with them. You know what I mean? Perhaps they are manic. I know a lot of people like that. They hate to be alone. They always have to be running somewhere. When they get there, they usually can't handle being there or relaxing at all but "must" run again elsewhere. Thus they seem to be constantly running.
 
When I am down I usualy sleep alot, I could kinda sleep all the time and if I didnt have a lil kid I wouldn't be bothered to get outta the bed at all I guess.

Other thing I love to do when I don't feel well is read quotes, poems, stories and books. This site http://www.netpoets.com/poems/depress is quite uhm depressed, but since I understand this peeple too well I just love to read this sad poems. Its nice to know theres people who feel the same way as I do.

Or I just watch some good movie and have a good food and relax.

Simply, I do anything possible or impossible to make myself feel better. I also used to masturbate alot when I felt shit. I been proper down and had suecide thoughts, but I've never lost my sex drive. Think I was even worst when I felt bad cuz I knew an intense orgasm will make me feel just fukin okay and there wasn't anything I wouldn't do to feel better, so I used to masturbate alot. And I still do that now and then, when I am allowed to do so.

There were times when I used to meet one old man and let him fuck me just so I would get some of his big warm hugs after and I enjoyed that alot I must say. For him it was just pure sex, for me it was just all about having someone to hold me tight when I was freezing inside. Hard to explain...
 
I get what you mean. That all makes sense to me.

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Thank you FurryFury, I knew you will understand. *smiles*

I never saw this thread before untill someone bumped it today and I can just say I undertand what you was or maybe still are going thro and I really hope you feeling better now. {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}

You are one of those people on Lit I really like and find easy to talk with. :)

:rose:
 
Wow!

Thank you!

:rose::rose::rose::rose::rose::rose:

I don't consider myself depressed right now. Even though I have low energy and creativity atm.

However I am physically quite sick with stupid sinuses. I swear it feels like I'm dying as lame as that might be.
 
Wow!

Thank you!

:rose::rose::rose::rose::rose::rose:

I don't consider myself depressed right now. Even though I have low energy and creativity atm.

However I am physically quite sick with stupid sinuses. I swear it feels like I'm dying as lame as that might be.
I dunno if I consider myself depressed atm or not, but I am surely far from being happy. I had a great time with my Master this morning, my girl is here with me and shes so full of possitive energy I can just wish I felt the same way. I smile when they are around, but once they are gone I am just silent and numb and way easy to start crying. It just suck.

As much as I wish to be in the arms of my Master I wouldn't make a good company just right now cuz guess I would just fall down to his feets and cry for a long long time. I can smile one min and a min after I am crying, I am weird.
 
Wow!

Thank you!

:rose::rose::rose::rose::rose::rose:

I don't consider myself depressed right now. Even though I have low energy and creativity atm.

However I am physically quite sick with stupid sinuses. I swear it feels like I'm dying as lame as that might be.

Sinuses !! Yes, that is what is causing me all my problems the last few days. My face and head is pounding so bad I can't do anything and I get frustrated and depressed because there is so much I need to do. If the weather would just decide to either stay really warm or really cold instead of going back and forth my head would feel so much better.
 
Sinuses !! Yes, that is what is causing me all my problems the last few days. My face and head is pounding so bad I can't do anything and I get frustrated and depressed because there is so much I need to do. If the weather would just decide to either stay really warm or really cold instead of going back and forth my head would feel so much better.

Yes, exactly!

*HUGS and HUGS*

You have my empathy.

I am now full of drugs, thanks mr. doctor man with all the needles, samples and prescriptions.

Let's have fun and see how much they help and/or fuck me up!
 
Talking to certain people used to be a good way to lighten the moods. not so much now... i'll figure out something new and let you know
 
Talking to certain people used to be a good way to lighten the moods. not so much now... i'll figure out something new and let you know

That sounds like a promise to me! I'm going to hold you to it!

*hug*

I post a lot and goof off when I'm a little down. Works wonders particularly if someone laughs with you or likes something you post. I can entertain myself for hours that way. The more frivolous my posts are, the more you know I feel like shit!

:)
 
I been depressed for years now. Well on and off, but it always comes back. In quite short periods of time. I blame my ex for the way I am cuz the first time I start feeling depressed was when I was 15 and found out he's cheating on me. It kinda stayed with me untill now. He should visit our girls in 30 mins and I am so in the mood to yell at him "FUCKING FUCK OFF!!!"

Can't say I really hate him, but I never been the same after knowing him and I deffo hate whats left of me. I used to be very happy person before I met him. Now I am like yoyo. I am moody and insecure so bad its killing me sometimes. I used to be on antidepressants for months. Stoped using them when me and him get back together in 2007, thought his love will make me whole again. But he just fucked up me some more after he left me once again. We are not together anymore, thanks God!, but the depression still holds me. I feel poisoned inside.


What I wanna ask is..

Is it possible to defeat the depression on your own? Without meds I mean. I like to think I can and that I'll be fine without the pills, but lately I am not so sure of it. And I deffo don't wanna stay the way I am. I am hurting people I love, with my insecureties and worries that got no reason sometimes. I am so easy to get down and I am bringing down all around me then. With the things I do and say. I am sick of me being like this. Sick of seeing everything negative, grey and hopeless.

I just wanna be "me" again. Me the way I was before I met my fucking ex. That would be nice. sigh

I can't see it happening, but I try.



I am not sure if the stupid pills helps, it usualy makes me just damn sleepy, but I will deffo take some today. When you can't stop crying theres not much else to do I guess.

Think I will spend today in bed.
 
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