Fighting against depression

Drink, preferably vodka; the saddest of all liquors.

 

I thought it was Gin that made you cry.

Vodka makes me wanna fight... so I stay off it...

 

Vodka for me is an instant depressant. Tequila though...yeah. I've been arrested because of that vicious liquid.

 

I do what Svrtnsse does. I eat and play games and go to bed early in hopes that some extra sleep will help. Usually I'm only depressed for a day.

 

I go to the jiu jitsu school and knock people down and choke them.

 

I know just how that can be. I have a lot of trouble just finding things to do.

A normal person might find themselves bored by having to mooch around a city from 9am-4pm while their partner attends a professional course. In my case, I enjoyed sitting in a waterstone's Illy cafe reading my new Iain M Banks novel. Simply getting out of the house and doing something different was good enough It helps that Liverpool is pretty amusing.

So yes, I wholy agree with the idea of doing something different as a pick-me-up. Some people love routine, some people hate it.

 

I commend you for the choice of song Chilari and would just like to say we are waiting feverishly for the new album... see as how the single is pretty damn cool.

Mumford & Sons are a wonderful pick me up.

 

I tend to get depressed easily over nothing and my cure is: time. Literally every single time I feel depressed I just wait it out and I am fine. I think I realize that I really don't have anything to really complain about. But if I want to get in a better mood I'll try and watch a movie or play a video game (not an online one as I can be very competitive lol)

I'll post a song here too, though the ending gets a little heavy but that's fine with me >

 

If I need a pick-me-up I go walking, sometimes in the town where I live but better if I can get away from people to the woods or heathland.
The trouble is that I often get the need at 03.00. I've been stopped by the police more than once and followed home [apparently walking around at 03.00 and not being drunk or stoned is suspicious]. In the woods you meet badgers and deer and lots of animals that don't seem so shy at night.
But if it is Depression settling in, then I try and ride it out. I go all but silent and don't talk to anyone if I can avoid it. Walking still helps but so does writing things down - especially the slightly stranger thoughts that come to me. And then do lots of lots of planning - I can have some "great" ideas when in Depression but a lot of them [okay - all of them] look crazy and dangerous a few days/weeks later.
One thing I don't do ever when I have Depression is drink. That can be a fatal combination that I have seen before.
But if I just need to soften the edges for an hour or two - Mulled wine. A nice stoneware beaker of mulled wine - it holds about a pint so can last all night long and well in to the next day with the hangover...

 

Get UV Sun 30 min a day, I run 5k in the morn (raises endorphins and testosterone levels, also fixes seratonin for good sleep). Get good sleep, eat more balanced, workout. I was diagnosed with depression and when I went from 24% Body fat to 6% body fat from the changes I mentioned, now Im balanced. People can take control. Sometimes its with medicine, sometimes with a life change --sometimes with a song or a one night stand lol

 

Different reasons for depression, different ways to fix it.

Sometimes a song, sometimes a walk, sometimes play with the dog.

 

Sometimes, by singing a song, while walking your dog, and playing in a bog by chasing a frog.