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how do you cheer yourself up...

Exercise a bit.
Bury myself in a good book.
Turn up the volume and blast some beats :D
Gaming, I love to crack out some of the oldschool strategy games/RPG's I was into as a kid and take them for a spin
Trying to get back into meditation, it used to improve my mood so much when I stuck it out with doing it daily for half an hour or so
Nice cold shower (or warm, depending on how the weather is at the time)
 
Crankinit said:
Gaming, I love to crack out some of the oldschool strategy games/RPG's I was into as a kid and take them for a spin
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Me too, but it seems like there is a point of diminishing returns on computer games. If I continue past a certain point I get obsessive but its effects on my mood regarding anything else becomes negative.
 
Enki said:
Me too, but it seems like there is a point of diminishing returns on computer games. If I continue past a certain point I get obsessive but its effects on my mood regarding anything else becomes negative.
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Yeah man definately, I find after a while your mind starts to wander and often I catch myself thinking about dumb shit in the back of my head while I play, but for an hour or two here and there it's always some nostalgia filled good times. I think games are really good for the imagination.
 
I try to think positive and think about my place on this Earth and how lucky I am. If that doesn't work then I try to listen to music, take a walk, talk to a friend of family member, work out (gotta start doing that more often)... stuff like that.
 
I read the new bluelight posts.. i just moved out and been about 3 months with no pc and a month with no internet.. and i'm on a multimedia course.. been really stressfull.. appreciate the smaller things but when i'm down i'm bored and vice versa..

Music is really nice to wallow in whatever feelings you have to bring yourself out of them.. nice food is nice but not paying for it when you inbetween jobs lol..

trying to find non-drug interests is definately something i'm really working towards.. a lot of the time i just cant get any motivation to improve any skill or do anything even if i know i'd probably like it.. this insane lazyness seems to have an unstoppable hold over me lmao. :\
 
Lots of things can cheer me up.


Music ( blind melon, sublime, beatles, and for some reason Alabama 3 * A3 * and mark lanegan. )

Casual Sex ( though the last few months i've been faithful.....even though i just found out my girl has not been...and has been telling some other guy everything she tells me :-/ ).

Excessive Excersize.

If im depressed or hurt ( especially hurt ) and pushing the limits of my body by working as many hours and as many jobs as possible. I can sleep when im dead tends to become my mentality.


Hanging out with my brothers ( not blood, but i look at 3 people as such types ).
 
I engage myself in my hobbies - sports, board games, cards, video games, darts, music, art, puzzles, etc.

I would be hopelessly lost without all that.
 
curlin up in a sunbeam

graff but thats a double edged sword

cuddlin with my girl and the kitties

bob marley
 
Watch cartoons
Listen to music (but nothing slow or sad)
Go on photography excursions in the park
Do my make-up and hair, and make myself all pretty (such a girl ) :)
 
I actually found the opposite to be sort of true. When I felt really lousy, I'd listen to some really bittersweet, melancholy but achingly beautiful music. Loud enough to drown out everything else. I found it cathartic; I'd eventually exhaust myself and fall asleep, and the next morning would be a bit better. Not good for when I was too close to the edge, but I've found that even severe depression and suicidal thoughts are not necessarily related. Usually the two happen together, but my most severe depressive episodes were generally not when I felt like ending it all.

Oh, I found that Harold Budd and Brian Eno's The Pearl album, as well as Barber's Adagio for Strings (among much of his other compositions) worked very well for this purpose. To the point that I can't listen to either without tearing up a bit.
 
Holding and petting my kitten often makes me feel a little better when its rough...
 
*bump*

That is what is missing from my day....MUSIC!! I knew something wasn't right :D
*puts on a CD*
 
usually its just the little things...

listening to music, taking a nap, enjoying a cigarette, reading a book, being with friends, watching a movie.

what helps me alot is making a gratitude list everyday. listing three things that i am thankful for today.
knowing that things could be so much worse. and that i got it good. i am blessed.
 
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