RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support
June 22, 2012 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2012 at 5:03 pm by Tempus.)
(June 21, 2012 at 8:35 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Now to flip my message upside down; I'm suffering a particularly bad bout of depression at the moment. Not the normal kind where "things I used to enjoy aren't fun" like I usually seem to frequently have but a really shitty one where I cannot resolve to do a single thing. I can't even play a video game, or write, or, fuck, I can't even cook. And when I can't get the motivation to cook, well, trust me, that's the biggest indicator of a problem with me you can ever get.
Anybody have any ideas how to break this? Or at least give myself some breathing space of some kind? Also, this seems to happen once every two weeks, not reliably, but on average, so any ideas on breaking this that really work would be a hell of a great thing to have.
That sounds familiar to me. I find that (among other things) change helps. That is, don't play a game you've already played, don't watch a movie you've already watched, don't jog a route you've already gone before, don't cook something you've cooked before, etc. I've found that doing something different, whether it be a variation on the activities I already engage in or a totally new activity, usually raises my mood. If I had to speculate, I'd say this is because change forces a focus on processing new information, rather than reviewing info you already have. Doing activities you already do in the same manner can give you a feeling of just going through the motions and aimlessness. Also, your mind wanders when you're familiar / bored with things. Well, that's how it is for me anyway.
ETA: Woo, 400 posts! Arbitrary milestone!
