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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
January 11 2011 15:30 GMT
#61
On January 11 2011 23:21 Xxio wrote:
While you do these different things I suggest eating big, delicious, healthy and hearty meals. Eating a lot of good food always cheers me up

hear hear.
To all of you kind folks:
If you ever want to ask me to do something, feed me some good food I'll get right on it.
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
NonY
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
8751 Posts
January 11 2011 15:43 GMT
#62
live my life lol ......
"Fucking up is part of it. If you can't fail, you have to always win. And I don't think you can always win." Elliott Smith ---------- Yet no sudden rage darkened his face, and his eyes were calm as they studied her. Then he smiled. 'Witness.'
NIIINO
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Slovakia1320 Posts
January 11 2011 15:58 GMT
#63
I eat MCdonald. well how to say it... I eat everything what they got there and no im not obese (78kg) I just love to eat when im depressed so much that i cant move
unfortunately i wasnt depressed for very long time _
BuuGhost
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands340 Posts
January 11 2011 16:41 GMT
#64
I usually switch from eat, Sport alot, Or play hardcore games with loud music.

All of them work for me.
"Kinda like this thing but there’s something you should know, I just came to say hello."
Omni17
Profile Joined January 2011
United States141 Posts
January 11 2011 16:52 GMT
#65
6 Pool / Cannon rush / Marine all in

Do this until you win and make someone rage that makes you laugh >.<
"To Drone or not to Drone, that is the question."
plated.rawr
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Norway1676 Posts
January 11 2011 16:59 GMT
#66
Hang with friends. Being alone and letting the depression corrode your head doesn't help any - find some friends to spend time with.
Savior broke my heart ;_; || twitch.tv/onnings
SlyinZ
Profile Joined August 2010
France199 Posts
January 11 2011 17:12 GMT
#67
You're not depressed, you just got a lucidity crisis.
Hikko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1126 Posts
January 11 2011 17:19 GMT
#68
play cards
♥
Lexpar
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
1813 Posts
January 11 2011 17:25 GMT
#69
Exercise is a safer alternative with much better side effects to illicit drugs. Exercise.
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
January 11 2011 17:43 GMT
#70
Work. Exercise. Most depression is caused by a lack of one or the other from my experience. Music/games whatever will help if its just something that you can't do anything about. If its something you can, i'll assume its work//schoolwork related and you probably want to crack down on it, god knows i do.

Short term cures like distraction or friends talking you out of it or talking yourself out of it is a good idea anyway I suppose, but try to find the root of the problem.+
Family members died? You can't really do anything about it try to get on with your life
Something within your control? If you can fix it you will feel on top of the world.
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
January 11 2011 17:55 GMT
#71
roflstomp comps in BGH
[TLMS] REBOOT
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
January 11 2011 19:10 GMT
#72
On January 11 2011 21:10 SpoR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 11 2011 14:40 Raeleigh wrote:
I talk to people who mean a lot to me in my life.
I lay down in bed and cry before I go to bed for a few hours.


I don't know, for me, it usually just goes away after a while. I'll cry for a long time and be close to tears for a week, and then it goes away and I feel okay again.

Just gotta find those who are important to you, and keep them close.

no offense but that's not good advice for males imho.

Maybe the talking to meaningful people bit a little, but this is the same shit I just read in glamour magazine (only reading material in el banyo).

I'd say working out is #1. Healthy body = healthy mind.

Drop any drug habits you have (or at least minimize them). Self medicating is usually bad.

Eat healthier ofc.

Find a new hobby, or try new things. For me lately, I've been experimenting with cooking alot. Just whenever I think of something to eat or see somethin and go 'shit I should learn to make this' and I do it. Its not hard, just look up a few recipes online and compromise on the ingredients etc.

Games and music are good distraction, but sometimes its not enough and they don't really benefit you unless you are doing something proactive with the gaming/music. Going/Being involved in events and things etc.

I dunno if you have a girl in your life, but I'd say lot of unabated sex would destroy depression.

PS- I've never tried this but I'm sure it would help, find your nearest soup kitchen or homeless shelter and try and help out somehow. Just spend a whole day there, guaranteed to hear some stories and you will definitely see how your life is not as bad as you think it is.

You can't say, "this isn't very good advice for males."
I say the same thing I would to anyone. I've said this to plenty of my guy friends, and they've accepted it, done it, and been fine. Well, not fine, but they've cheered up drastically.
If you're going to be some big manly douche bag man, then yeah, go for it and work out, get some bitches, you know, normal things.
But if you have a heart and really need to feel better, there are basic needs every person, girl or guy, needs.

The biggest thing like everyone has said here, is just to keep your mind and your body occupied.
Any moment you have to sit around and start thinking again(unless it's what you wanting) is just going to bring down everything you were doing to make it go away.
you are perfect porcelain.
Haemonculus
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States6980 Posts
January 11 2011 19:37 GMT
#73
Yeah I'm with Raeleigh on this one. Just having a good cry gets a lot of shit out of your system.

Or, get *reallllly* stoned, listen to some Opeth, and just get lost in the music, ^.^

Or, do you have a friend with a cat? It sounds silly. but there have been studies done that petting a cat does wonders for the mind. They even bring kittens to old folks home to cheer up people who are essentially just stored in a warehouse waiting to die.

Sexual release is also a help.
I admire your commitment to being *very* oily
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-11 19:47:30
January 11 2011 19:43 GMT
#74
I'm not sure about talking about it, could be good or bad I guess, but in any case its a hard thing for most guys to do. Going through a bad time happens to everybody, but if you can man up and get through it then it's like it never really happened. If you are were really pouring your heart out to your friends it's like they all know what happens, and it makes you feel weak, that's the way I see it, maybe I'm wrong.

Crying is even harder. It's such a taboo in male society it just doesn't really happen. I can't remember the last time I cried. How are you supposed to intentionally cry?

In any case, telling your average male to "talk about it" or "cry" and it's not going to happen like 95% of the time I bet.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
January 11 2011 19:55 GMT
#75
Guys don't cry when they are depressed. Sorry girls it just isn't how we operate.

I'm not saying we are all he-men that never cry or anything, just crying for us isn't really cathartic and doesn't make us feel better like it does for you.
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
January 11 2011 19:57 GMT
#76
Lol, I don't expect guys to be like "F YEAH I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT IT." =P
I just expect them to take the advice, and use it if they wish. /shrug

Like I said, there are basic needs every person has. Sometimes crying, talking about things, and anything like that are really, really what you need. Whether or not you do it is okay!
But if nothing else is working, sometimes it's worth it to suck it up and let it out. ;3
you are perfect porcelain.
Rayzorblade
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States1172 Posts
January 11 2011 20:23 GMT
#77
Any kind of physical exercise is one of the best ways to fight depression.
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
January 11 2011 20:33 GMT
#78
On January 12 2011 04:55 Lemonwalrus wrote:
Guys don't cry when they are depressed. Sorry girls it just isn't how we operate.

I'm not saying we are all he-men that never cry or anything, just crying for us isn't really cathartic and doesn't make us feel better like it does for you.

Why are talking like you're speaking for every guy, though?

I know plenty of guys who think differently.
you are perfect porcelain.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
January 11 2011 22:15 GMT
#79
On January 12 2011 05:33 Raeleigh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 12 2011 04:55 Lemonwalrus wrote:
Guys don't cry when they are depressed. Sorry girls it just isn't how we operate.

I'm not saying we are all he-men that never cry or anything, just crying for us isn't really cathartic and doesn't make us feel better like it does for you.

Why are talking like you're speaking for every guy, though?

I know plenty of guys who think differently.

I, as a guy, have gotten to know other guys quite well, and I feel that I can speak in generalities that would apply to most of us. Idk, maybe everyone I know is just a he-man or something.

And by no means am I saying I don't ever cry (the last 30 pages of a farewell to arms turns me into a 12 year old girl every fucking time), just that I don't ever choose to cry as a cathartic thing when I'm depressed about anything less than the death of someone I loved.
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
January 11 2011 22:24 GMT
#80
Speaking in generalities makes you look bad when you're wrong.

In any case, although you may not find it a solution to when you're depressed, it is a basic human action, that relieves different things.
Crying is a natural stress relief.

When you sweat, what your body is trying to do is to keep itself from overheating. Completely natural. It's the same with crying. When you get stressed, angry, or really, really sad, your body will start to heat up in reaction the different chemicals in your brain that are making you feel different.

I was never saying, "hey guys you NEED to do this to feel better"
I was saying, it's a basic human reaction to the surroundings and happenings.

It's a natural way to feel better.

/shrug

Sometimes all you really need is a good cry, wait for the headache to go away, and you feel clearer and it's easier to look at things with fresh eyes. ;o
you are perfect porcelain.
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