What do you do when you're horribly depressed all at once?

[moonlight]

So far I haven't been able to settle on something. I'm very rarely depressed...until now that is. I guess I've been watching too much TV and smoking. Smoking way too much.

[Lonesomepoet76]

I take a piece of paper and write down whatever is on my mind. I find that TV is boring so i wrote about that once.

I have a tv
it is very boring
wouldnt it be cool
if it would burst into flames
i want smores

[whaywardj]

Haiku?

(10)

[artyemi]

I have a marble composition notebook too.

And lately, I've been feeling sad and lonely, but I haven't been writing in it. It makes me sad to not write in it. Yea, a lot of the bad things that I don't tell people are in there, but sometimes, it's the only pair of listening ears that I've got.

Now, when I get depressed, I call my friends up. I don't tell them what's wrong. In fact, I try to not talk about what's wrong. And eventually, their joy rubs off on me and I feel better.

[shh!]

Nah - haiku is 5-7-5

[Illusional]

a haiku is a japanese poem. as shhhw as saying there are 3 lines and the syllables go as follows, 5-7-5 or 3-5-3

raverboy

[shh!]

I didn't know about the 3-5-3!!

[whaywardj]

Yeah. That's what confused me. Three syllables on the last line. Then I forgot how many lines it was supposed to be...and the rest is history. Reminds me of the old joke about the father teaching his son how to pee in the toilet. Ever hear it?

[Tone]

*sigh*


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[Apache]

I'm a drummer. I spent a lot of time in Drum Corps and what-not. So whenever I'm depressed I rig up my snare drum on the stand and whack away. It's a pretty aggressive activity so it lets out stored anger/depression.

Doing something physical will get out some of your aggressions.

Lol....Thats exactly what I do. I sit at my drums and beat them without
mercy...mostly during anger sessions. Its good, and it signals to all those
around me to back off. The warning drums of war.

[pxc]

wow... this thread is still here... like... on the front page... these forums are moving along damn slow... and where's OV? in the more recent threads he seems gone...

[boobaa]

Deppression usually comes when there are not much physical acts, like physical work. Thats also the reason why everything was better in the old days.
I have been watching people and I have seen that people who work on the construction sites as simple builders etc are much more happy than men who do just plain office work etc.
When I was on a physical work, I was much happier and I didn't feel any depression.

[Tone]

That's a pretty interesting observation, boobaa.

[shh!]

higher IQ = higher levels of depression

This could be why you see less depression with physical laborers as opposed to those working in intellectual fields. That, and physical laborers are too physically tired to sit around contempleting the things in life that are worth being depressed about.

[Junket]

physical laborers are too physically tired to sit around contempleting the things in life that are worth being depressed about.

Exactly.

I used to get really down durin' the summers I didn't have a job.

My friend even now only works 3 days a week.

He's been doin' the whole contemplate life thing with his spare time.

So much that he went from havin' complete faith in God to doubting his existence.

That made me happy and scared me at the same time.