So how do you cope?

[RetiarySword]

Everyone gets depressed at some point or another. It can be small, it can be large. How do you cope with it?

Mine is music, friends, games, the normal stuff. But thats starting to fall through.

 

[Washboard]

Food, if i'm depressed i comfort eat like crazy

Still thin though, so it shows i dont get depressed much

 

[Danklift]

I embrace it.
Go to bed, turn off all the lights draw the curtains shut out all noise and lie under the covers. After a few hours I begin to feel a bit silly, reason it out in my head and then go back to the world feeling a lot better.

Either that or get on my bike and cycle around till I'm exhausted, it clears your head and the endorphines make you 'feel' happy.

 

[prefectimo]

I get on with life. That is not to say I only get a little depressed at the times but I see no use is being sad or crying so I don't waste my time with it.

 

[Ranooth]

Meh i embrace depression, its not gunna go away until i move so why fight it.

However i do find that playing games and just doing anything that gets my mind off of it helps.

 

[Graustein]

I go for a long walk with my iPod, then come back home and play Smash Bros.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

Sports mostly. They stop me from thinking about anything other than what's going on at that particular moment. And the endorphins keep me happy for a while afterwards as well.

Also, I've recently found that talking with a friend about it helps, before I never felt like I could talk to my friends about it, now I've got someone that I can talk about anything with.

 

[covertmonkey]

i listen to dragonforce-fury of the storm to remind myself that for victory i ride fury of the storm other than that i play games

 

[RENCAMO]

I'll either just watch a funny movie to get my mind off it or I'll play something really scary.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Music helps, but usually I just talk it out with my friends.

 

[rossatdi]

Watch any of the following on my own with a beer or five:

Vanishing Point, Transformers: The Movie (no, the good one with Orson Wells), any of the first 3 Indiana Jones/Die Hard/Star Wars films, The Fifth Element or South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

Do any of the previous with friends.

Alternatively, playing Left 4 Dead on expert tends to blank one's mind for 2-3 hours.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Drown it out with music, emo-style
Endure it.. although at one point you'll most likely crack so it's not advisable.
Talking to a friend really helps it get it off your chest.
Or taking a long walk, going nowhere in particular so that you can think without stress.

 

[Chaz D]

... any of the first 3 Indiana Jones/Die Hard/Star Wars films...

What do you mean FIRST three Indiana Jones/Star Wars films? There were only three.

Just three of them.

ONLY three.

No more.

Anyway, the way I cope is by watching lots of daft, light-hearted American sitcoms, like Friends and Scrubs. That, and forcing myself to forget about the fourth Indiana Jones film and the Star Wars prequel trilogy...

That never existed...

 

[Avida]

Write down all depressing thoughts.

really, really helps.

One you've wrote them down, they stop floating around your head, and then you have the ability to get all shiney and happy again.

That said, i find theres a certain pleasure in depression if you have the right music and dont let it consume you. But thats probably just me.

 

[kommando367]

i am immune to emotional distraughtness of any kind

 

[Taerdin]

Everyone gets depressed at some point or another. It can be small, it can be large. How do you cope with it?

Mine is music, friends, games, the normal stuff. But thats starting to fall through.

I would give advice but I think my doctor is putting me on anti-depressants soo... :S

If it persists and even what normally works fails you maybe you should at least talk to someone, if not your doctor.

 

[ScarfaceNY]

i listen to dragonforce-fury of the storm to remind myself that for victory i ride fury of the storm other than that i play games

Oh thats so cool i do the samething my favorite song from the is Through The Fire And Flames also i like to play games and then I am basically ignoring the world

 

[Andalusa]

I'm kinda bi-polar, when I get depressed it's very extreme. Normally I just retreat into myself, music always helps.

Everyone gets depressed at some point or another. It can be small, it can be large. How do you cope with it?

Mine is music, friends, games, the normal stuff. But thats starting to fall through.

I would give advice but I think my doctor is putting me on anti-depressants soo... :S

talk to someone, if not your doctor.

Talking really does help, it just takes alot to tell someone about it.

 

[rossatdi]

... any of the first 3 Indiana Jones/Die Hard/Star Wars films...

What do you mean FIRST three Indiana Jones/Star Wars films? There were only three.

Just three of them.

ONLY three.

No more.

Anyway, the way I cope is by watching lots of daft, light-hearted American sitcoms, like Friends and Scrubs. That, and forcing myself to forget about the fourth Indiana Jones film and the Star Wars prequel trilogy...

That never existed...

First three of each. So no bald McLane fighting hackers, no geriatric Indy fighting aliens and no Star Wars prequels fighting quality control.