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Moose1132
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| I'll have to try some of these things (the ones I can anyway). I've been feeling worse than I've felt in a long time lately. Music helped for a little while, but I eventually realized I was just using it as a smoke screen for what's really going on. I guess thinking like that would be a problem with any tactic really. |
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darkwhispersdale
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I paint, sketch or write poetry when I'm depressed (none of them are particulary good but my skill is improving)
Watch a favourite TV series episode with a character who feels depressed getting themselves out of it this helps. My favourites are Thundercats-the crysal canyon, Sherlock Holmes- The Devil's Foot, etc
I like to run when I'm depressed especially in winter I tend to find I can't think and I'm only aware of whats around me and the pounding of my feet.
I won't talk to friends I tried once and it didn't work. |
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Dragonlover4
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Joined: Sep 25, 2008
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Location: Isle of Wight, England
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| I write when I'm depressed, it doesn't matter what I write about I just put pen to paper and don't stop until I feel better. I find it helps a lot especially when people don't listen to how I'm feeling. |
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MadAme
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Joined: Jul 15, 2008
Age: 56
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Location: At wits' end
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| Take a walk, read a good book, play the piano or the guitar, get in the car and drive to Borders. If I'm real depressed, journal. |
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ChaoQuiet
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go to special education class and start annyoing classic autistics
and make them fell bad when the teacher goes for a break |
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still_larva
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Joined: Nov 01, 2008
Age: 18
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Location: In 4 weeks- home,good old eastern Europe
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Welll, I wouldn't say I'm extremely good at ''being down management'' more on the opposite side, but I somehow have managed to stay mostly sane so far, and that's already something.
I have rather extreme swings between ups and downs (from ''let's get all friends together and go hiking, Im making the picnic lunch and organizing transport'' to ''where is a piece of rope when you need it?'' in a couple of hours) and in the down phase my logics does not work, so I can't really use common sense to see that things are not as bad as they look. So I find it useful to get rid of any kind of thinking at all.
The best thing to acomplish that for me is doing some physical work, that does not require any complicated thinking, but requires quite a bit of coordination, concentration and mastering the technique. Cleaning bathrooms is a good one, contains a reasonable number of objects that have to be manipulated in a particular way and in a particular order to achieve results, and working with ammonia and bleach containing poducts keeps me focused, because of risc of chemical burns, so there is no time to think. And it's very purposeful as well. For me it is the best way how to get through accute self-harm phase.
For general downs IMHO it is important to find that ''It is good to be alive'' sensation, that comes, when you push your body a little bit out of it's comfort zone. Walking without shoes on a rough surface, having a little bit colder than usual swim, trying to climb a tree, when you are afraid of height, having a hard out on a bike, anything. |
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MrMark
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Joined: Jul 04, 2006
Age: 50
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Location: Tallahassee, FL
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| ChaoQuiet wrote: | go to special education class and start annyoing classic autistics
and make them fell bad when the teacher goes for a break |
There are ways to build yourself up without tearing others down.
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"Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move."
- Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks) |
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Kira
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Joined: Oct 29, 2008
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I have a very difficult time with my self-esteem, I have a bit of an inferiority complex, actually a rather big one. I'm also transsexual and was born in the wrong body so that makes this a lot worse. I have a lot of hobbies I enjoy but I still don't feel good for anything and I still really don't like myself. For several years my only method of really venting was cutting, but I stopped that months ago. I get urges to start again, since now all I am doing is just locking up the stress inside and nothing seems to let it out.
Currently I'm on an SSRI antidepressant drug but it's not working anymore and just makes me feel dizzy and nauseous and gives me really bad head aches. I'm slowly getting off it and though the headaches are going back to their normal amounts i still feel really sad a lot, and my OCD is returning again. I hate stupid prescription drugs but I probably will have to switch to another.
I don't know what to do. The only people I talk to are the ones on the internet, who don't really reply anyway. Crap. |
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tweety_fan
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Joined: Oct 03, 2007
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meeting with other transexuals could be useful.
sometimes i feel like the crappiest thing on the planet other times i feel ok, sometimes good.
books are good for cheering me up and so are video games (something like patapon with happy tunes). |
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