what do u do when u are depressed?

Answer 1

Listen to music and get active - go for a drive with music blasting!

Answer 2

think about everything I';m grateful for. Get up an get busy, wash dishes, play with the kids, go out with a friend. I know it is hard, while I'm writing this is feel a little taste of depression now. So I guess I can't be much help. But I will continue to try and get out of this depression. Live in the present, easier said than done.

Answer 3

I see depression as a sort of chaos, or lack of order in the mind, a lack of purposefulness, or a nothingness that simply means would nothing what so ever you do. This type of nothingness sometimes surrounds me rendering me unable to understand what this life is all about. If you are familiar with Taoist philosophy then you might have heard about the concepts of emptiness and fullness. This is how I feel when I am depressed – empty and chaotic first, and then down. It is when the intensity of my purpose is at its weakest, and my ego deflated. When we have no solid purpose in view foreign purposes and influences rush in our mind to put us down. This is when this world seems to lay heavily upon my heart and mind. I try to restore my motivation and my enthusiasm but it does come easily and suddenly.

I use different methods at different times. I find walking in communion with nature very invigorating, for example. There is, however, another method that I suggest you should try. Get yourself a candle of a suitable burning duration; go to a calm and comfortable room, preferably the one where you spend most of your private time. Light the candle in front of your eyes at any distance in the room and make this resolve: I will not leave this room, and neither will I be disturbed or interrupted by any one until the entire candle has completed its duration. Then sit down on the sofa, on the mate, or lie down on the couch, wherever you find yourself comfortable. Just be mindful of the company of a living candle. This might take two, or three or even four hours but you are not counting the time. Then towards the end make this realisation: this candle has live for me, it has given all it light for me that I have thankfully absorbed and that light is now in my mind, what do I live for? Now, I do not know what exactly you would feel and how exactly you would spend that duration but this for sure that it will make you feel different, calm and invigorated, with strange state of mindfulness.

Answer 4

Well I start feeling overwhelmed by the suckiness of the world and then I say to myself OK here we go again. I know that no matter how intense my doomitus gets I'll eventually come out the other side. Sometimes getting outside and involving myself in something helps, sometimes I am way too cranky to be around average humans. Fortunately I work alone.

Answer 5

I sing. I mean really seriously sing. Almost to the point when I'm hoarse and the people I live with complain. Takes my mind off the reason of such depression.
I do feel better afterwards.

Answer 6

I remember the Nihil.

I remember how futile life is, how irrelevant and worthless existence is..... and how completely stupid my own moping is amongst all that when I am living soley for my own satisfaction. The Universe quite clearly doesn't give a flying fvckery if I'm depressed... so the only person it is harming is me.

Afterall... being depressed doesn't help me achieve my intended goals in life, so I concentrate on not being so.... or rather on being in a more practical state of mind.

Answer 7

I laugh at myself and how silly it is for an animal with the smartest brain in the animal kingdom to be depressed.

Unless it's a true chemical imbalance, then I'd prob see a doc.

Answer 8

When you're depressed you're being depressed... very hard to get out, it's like a deep pit. I guess you need to find someone to help you get out of that.

Answer 9

i cant think of anything good when im depressed so that wouldnt be an option for me...i usually do nothing but wait for it to go and i suffer from silence till then...

Answer 10

I hold everything in until I explode and cry. If ppl are making me mad while I'm in such a down mood, I tend to be a b*tch and I yell and tell them exactly what I think. If my son is around while I'm crying I stop and tell him I'm fine, then I play with him and he makes me feel better.