What gets you up......

[Angel]

When you're in a down mood? I'm like stuck in this cycle of depression and bad moods, and all I want to do half the time is cry. Things are starting to come full circle and go RIGHT, and yet I am still down. I think this is what's making me have insomnia and writers block as well.

So what do you do to get out of your funks?

 

[HSWriter]

come to lit and read some of the funny stuff that goes on around here... it helps me realize that my life doesnt suck that bad... lol

 

[Angel]

Well yeah, which is why I'm always here LOL.

 

[HSWriter]

sex works too

 

[Angel]

I don't want to go THERE.

 

[TonyG]

It really depends on the cause of my depressions, so sometimes Lit works and other times music. The best for me is going out to Bennigan's with a good friend for a night of drinking and eating which usually results in a lot of laughs. At least for those hours I am very happy and most of the time it carries over to the next day.

 

[Angel]

That's the thing. I can't fucking pinpoint the root of this mood I've been in. I thought it was the badluck cycle, but apparently it isn't since shit is getting better. NOTHING helps. Writing (Not just for lit) has ALWAYS been my outlet. ALWAYS. And it's just not this time around. I can't write for shit and that really hurts.

 

[TonyG]

Then go and do something that you know you like to do but just haven't in a long time. It will refresh your senses and get you back into writing and other pleasurable things.
Do it with a friend, that is not contributing to your depression, who can get you to laugh.

If I was close to Rochester, I'd offer to take you out and get you to laugh. But since I'm not, I'll mentally send you some funny thoughts.

 

[Angel]

I don't even have the damn energy in me to do it. I took a LONG walk earlier today, an hour, in the cold, alone trying to think, and it felt good, but didn't help. My car is dead til I get a new engine (Blah) so that rules out me going anywhere worth going at all. I don't know. I just don't. I'm gonna go TRY to sleep now, but I betcha I'll be back within an hour.

 

[TonyG]

I hope not.
Have a good night!

 

[GuyJD]

GOOD MUSIC + GOOD WORKOUT+ GOOD BOOK= GREAT MOOD

No matter how down I may be, one of the 3 things that picks me up the most is music. I would listen to light R & B or light jazz but above all music, any Earth, Wind, & Fire song would put me in a good mood.
Another factor that changes my mood is a good workout. I might take my frustrations out on the weights but in a careful manner, of course.
But my worst time was the incident that I once posted here in Literotica's BB. I had lost my job at the department store when my ex-girlfriend/coworker, selfishly, needed me out of the way so that she could be with someone else. When I came home after completing my last day at work, I sat down and thought of alot of evil revenge that never before entered my mind or heart. But instead of picking up my police revolver to seek revenge, I picked up my Bible and read my favorite scripture (Proverb 3:5-6). Since I am here to write this post, you can pretty much tell that I didn't go through with my revenge. I decided to put that in God's hand and, from what occurred to her and the store, it was a perfect decision.

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

CHOCOLATE

It always works, Plus one of those stupid romance movies or a good horror with a dumb blonde in it...

 

[SteamyChik]

Girl friend gripe session over a good dinner.
Going to a double-feature.
Sleeping really late and calling in sick.
Phone sex on one of those free lines (for women anyway it's free)
Good book and some junk food.
Shopping - but that can lead to more depression.

 

[Xander]

Angel. There are a number of things that i do when I'm down.
But one thing that always seem to calm me and make me feel better, is to play one of my instruments. Long, hard nad with everything I got.
After a couple of hours I tend to feel a whole lot better than I did when I started.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

When I'm down what gets me up is the alarm clock and knowing that if I don't work I'll end up sleeping in a gutter.

I went through some serious depression a while ago, and didn't (don't) know why really. So far I have left my g/f of 5 plus years (not to mention 2 kids, one mine). I have left my corporate job and am now strugling by on 1/3rd the pay at a hamburger joint. I am planning to go half way around the world to work like a mother fucker for 6 months in terrible conditions. I am also planning to sell my family car and buy me a classic V8 muscle car with no room in the back for a baby seat.

It's not working.

I suppose the thing that gets me out of a funk is time, in the mean time you gotta just keep on trying.

Friends help, (((Angel)))

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Loud, loud, loud rock and roll and one of two things:

A really great workout, or

going out and chopping and splitting firewood, then starting a really big bonfire, getting drunk, and dancing madly nekked under the stars.

 

[TonyG]

Originally posted by Angel
...I'm gonna go TRY to sleep now, but I betcha I'll be back within an hour.

I'm glad to see that you did not come back and post in an hour. That's good, I guess you did fall asleep. Hope everything goes more your way today.

 

[Angel]

Actually I did come back. I just didn't post on this thread. Thanks for all your suggestions everyone, but I'm just having a really shitty day. I don't think anything can fix it right now. I'll just sit here wallowing in my misery like always. Fuck it.

 

[Xander]

Actually I did come back. I just didn't post on this thread. Thanks for all your suggestions everyone, but I'm just having a really shitty day. I don't think anything can fix it right now. I'll just sit here wallowing in my misery like always. Fuck it.

Angel. I'm sorry to hear that. Feel free to contact me if you wanna vent. I'm here.

 

[Angel]

I know you are. ::hugs:: Thank you.

 

[Chuckus]

When you're in a down mood? I'm like stuck in this cycle of depression and bad moods, and all I want to do half the time is cry. Things are starting to come full circle and go RIGHT, and yet I am still down. I think this is what's making me have insomnia and writers block as well.

So what do you do to get out of your funks?

Sorry you are down Angel.........truly. Anything I can do?

 

[Darkstaff]

I feel for you Angel. Personally it sounds to me like you're doing too much of the same thing. I write game programs and am working on several web comics as well...so as you can imagine...about 90% of my life is my computer. Yeah I go to my computer to relieve my tension...but you can believe that it gets old after a while...its not that I hate my computer...its just that I get sick of the same old thing. My advice...shelve all your writing projects, kill your daily routine...and take 2 weeks to get to know yourself again (OK I KNOW that remark is an easy target...so lets try to be adults about it ^_^). The answer is probably that something is nagging at you and all this working and writing has allowed you to put it at the back of your thoughts...but now its catchiong up to you. In any case i wish you well...and I hope you get over your slump.

PS...as for what gets me up...I really have to say a womans armpits...I know...sick huh ^_^

 

[Angel]

I see what ya mean about too much. I guess once I figured out the art of multitasking, I now do it to an extreme. I will chat on both ICQ and AIM, check Lit, write (Stories and or poems) check mail, work on my website, cook dinner, do laundry and talk on the phone all at once. It's like the only way I can get anything done when I need to.

Being sick DID calm all that down,as basically all I could do was lay in bed and roll over to type on the computer (BF put it next to the bed so I wouldnt get bored) But that's when the depression hit. Maybe it was because I felt useless all of the sudden or something. Things are looking up a little bit.

Still iffy with the BF he's stressing alot too, we have alot of back bills dumped on us because I booted the roommates(Who werent paying shit anyway)And I think he's feeling guilty for not being able to *Take Care of Me* and the house better. We had it out yesterday and he left with no comment as to his return but he came back and we talked....so at least that is ok. I got a new job so that is also ok. He had a job interview at Kodak which will fucking ROCK, because he hates the job he has now...and he's not home yet so either he got the job or is hangin with his brother which he hasn't done in months so things are coming around...

I'm just afraid to relax about it..yet.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

(((Angel))) *wishing* luck