(June 6, 2016 at 9:23 am)AkiraTheFighter24 Wrote:

(June 6, 2016 at 12:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: So what is it getting you down?

I was really depressed last night. Some night I dwell on how I'll never make it, how I've tried before and failed which gets my depression going. It didn't help that I was thinking about my dad and kid brother, wishing they were still here.

It sounds trite, but worrying over things not in your control is a good way to bring these moods on ... ask me how I know.

(June 6, 2016 at 11:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(June 6, 2016 at 9:23 am)AkiraTheFighter24 Wrote: I was really depressed last night. Some night I dwell on how I'll never make it, how I've tried before and failed which gets my depression going. It didn't help that I was thinking about my dad and kid brother, wishing they were still here.

It sounds trite, but worrying over things not in your control is a good way to bring these moods on ... ask me how I know.

Trite or no, it's excellent advice. I learned this the very hard way.

(June 6, 2016 at 11:56 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(June 6, 2016 at 11:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It sounds trite, but worrying over things not in your control is a good way to bring these moods on ... ask me how I know.

Trite or no, it's excellent advice.  I learned this the very hard way.

I'm still learning it. Still.

Definitely. Sometimes just saying "do something to take your mind off it" really is the best advice.

I lost my Dad last year too, to cancer. Grief really is a learning process, especially when it's the first time you lose someone really close. I've let myself get borderline-suicidal over it (well combined with other, perhaps lesser worries) a few times, but it's learning to tune out the negativity.

At the end of the day, you have to make good stuff happen yourself, can't sit around waiting for it to come to you.

As predicted, my lip was fine after the piercing. Then it swelled up out of nowhere. Reading about it online, that is normal. It should only be swollen for a few days.

Feeling fine.

(June 6, 2016 at 4:10 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:

As predicted, my lip was fine after the piercing.  Then it swelled up out of nowhere.  Reading about it online, that is normal.  It should only be swollen for a few days.

You peirced your cat's lip!?!?

(June 6, 2016 at 4:20 pm)Losty Wrote: You peirced your cat's lip!?!?

No, LOL.

I just prefer to use a cat picture to convey how I am feeling since in the title the word "meow" is present.

Sleepy, so off to the land of nod.