Ways to make you feel better when you are sad, other than drugs and alcohol!?

Question

Okay so i am really depressed and furiously angry cause of some emotional issue(long story) and was wondering what you people do to feel better when life is low. I mean listening to metal music only gets you so far.

Please stop with the exircise come on!!

Answer 1

Bad days - everyone has them, so you go for a walk and you turn it around.

It's more the intensity that you can control because somethings in life were meant to depress us so it's a matter of how long we're depressed. and then here are some things that you can take some control over how you feel by using some of the strategies listed below:
1. Learn some ways to relax and incorporate them into your daily routine. Even if too much stress and tension aren't the cause of your depression (although they very well might be), they certainly aggravate it.
2. Identify things that are pleasant for you and plan them into your schedule. Research suggests that depressed people have a lack of pleasurable events in their lives and that they actually avoid things that give them pleasure.
3. Increase your activity level. Unfortunately, depressed individuals don't have much energy for exercise, so they tend to remain inactive. Low activity level serves to increase depressed feelings, which then inhibit activity further. To break this cycle, schedule daily exercise that is appropriate for your lifestyle and conditioning level. Take a walk, it's not how fast you walk, it's just the movement - the act of doing it. Remember the turtle and the rabbit. The turtle won the race because he kept on moving at a slow comfortable pace. It's the fact that he finished the race that's important.
4. Identify self-ctitical thoughts and switch to self-rewarding thinking. In other words, get off your back. It is easy to make yourself depressed by being overly harsh and critical.
5. Analyze your social behavior. Many depressed people are lonely and isolated. By learning new social skills and assertive communication, you can often get needed support .
6. Children might avoid the need for presciption antidepressents and if the one of the parents are depressed, getting the parent help can prevent the child from becoming depressed.
7. Listen to soft soothing relaxing music or something with lots of rhythm. Music is to the spirit of mankind like a bandaid is to a cut.
8. Learn way to control your anger ie: a hobby such as karate, tae kwan do, tia chi, yoga or anger management classes.
9. Learn to meditate. Two minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes.
10. Research shows that depressed people tend to be deficient in mostly B vitamins. Take a B vitamin complex and 5000 mg of sublingual vitamin B12. (Se vitamin therapy in my list)
11. Drink lots of water add a few drops of apple juice or grape juice to the water to give it a sparkle. Research shows that even a little dehydration can cause us to be depressed.

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Answer 2

A few things to try: A long walk to just "be" is good, add headphones with some music that uplifts you. Call a good friend and just "vent" a bit. Hang out at Yahoo Answers and help someone else out with some great advice or just a good laugh to make them smile. Go get a punching bag (and gloves!) and beat the heck out of it. Go on an all out cleaning spree around your house, car, office cubicle - whatever. You'll be exhausted and you'll have a great uncluttered space to enjoy.

The biggest thing to remember is that this will pass eventually. Faster if you work it out now. A friend once told me that depression is anger turned inward and anger is just a reaction to being hurt in some way. So, consider how you might take care of yourself if you were physically sick or injured and take steps to care for yourself. Taking a long walk or a bath or just cranking up your music and dancing around your house could be just what the doctor ordered.

Good luck!

Answer 3

When I am sad, I don't really _want_ to do anything, so I end up isolating myself with makes everything worse. The only way I have discovered that helps me to deal with this is to put myself in a situation where I am obligated to get out of the house and go somewhere else. When I was taking a break from school I got really depressed so I got a job as a waitress. Life was fast paced, I met new people, I got out of the house and I made money to boot.

I'm not sure if this will work for you, but I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Been there. It makes no sense to drink and feel even crappier the next morning than you did before. Plus it's expensive, which leads to more depression when you stress about not having enough money.

I started walking. Just walking. For hours. I just didn't want to be home... it was suddenly a very sad, lonely, empty place - so I walked. I put a change of clothes and shoes in my car, drove to a town, parked, and walked. In the beginning I just fought back tears mostly. But soon I began to see things. A cute house. A nice flower bed. Really green grass. Then I could smell freshly cut lawns. I could hear sprinklers running. And the laughter of kids inside someone's house.

I used to walk for HOURS! From about 5:00 to about 9:00. I walked so much I lost weight and built muscle (always an added bonus) and before I knew it, I looked forward to my walks... not because I was walking away from things, but because I was looking forward to what I was walking to find and experience.

Good luck!

Answer 5

If you know what is causing the sadness, then why do you allow your mind to continue to dwell on those same thoughts? Remainig there will eventually bring about depression.

It would be important to find some soothing music, to slow the intensity being created within the body.. Metal is well known for the ability to increase the bodies intensity..Not the best route to be taking at this particular time.

Answer 6

Music

Answer 7

Sometimes music can make you feel worse! Get outside and do something that will make you feel good. Don't go anywhere that will remind you of the issue. I just started trying something to keep my mind off an issue that is depressing me. When a thought comes into my head that is about the issue I just say...ya ya ya ya as many times as need be until the thought is gone. I usually do this to myself so people don't think I've lost it...Good luck, you'll make it!

Answer 8

Just u sit alone.Find out the reason of ur sadness.Try to forgive and forget it. Now u again think what u have brought with you to this earth and what will come with you after your death. LIFE is very little and every one has to leave and go from this world today or tomorrow. Then why this sadness ? Enjoy and make others happy. I am sure in future such sadness will never accure in your whole life. God bless you.If you finf this is right advice pl do acknowledge.

Answer 9

See a Dr. asap. I thought I could do it by myself (you know how us men are) until I didn't leave my home for 3 months except to get food. I was diagnosed w/ clinical depression, then later w/ bipolar disorder. I had 1 suicide attempt & ended up in the hospital 7 times B4 we got the right medications & talk therapy. I'm almost back to normal now, but the longer you wait the longer it takes to cure. I had a lot of rage & started getting in fistfights w/ people & that's out of my character. I even ended up in jail once. See a Dr. ,It couldn't hurt.

Answer 10

Have a flick through any cable channel until you see one of those adverts for kids who are beaten in the home day in day out, or one of the millions of websites showing people being blown up or burnt or shot etc. You get my point. It's a quick reality check. You obviously have internet access in order to have posted this question, I presume a roof over your head (where the internet is connected) and if you have these two I assume you able to eat a meal everyday.

Life can't be "that" sad can it? Unless you are one of those people mentioned above.