What do you do with a bad case of the blues?

[Mary Ann]

Hi kids. Woke up this morning feeling loads better. I blame the ice cream.


And just for the record, the blues to me is a one or two day thing that happens every so often. Now I do get depressed twice a year and that usually lasts a couple of weeks. But I see them as two separate things, one a passing thing and the other something to medicate.

Glad you're feeling better. And ice cream is never a bad thing.

 

[Kibbin]

Especially hypothetical ice cream, that's the best

 

[RandyS]

I watch my Star Trek DVD's. If that doesn't work, I read a favorite book. If THAT doesn't work, I cuss a blue streak.

It's good to have backups.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I just ride it out, because I know it won't last. Reading takes my mind off the bad. I don't do that "watch your favourite DVD" thing, since I know sooner or later I'll end up associating said DVD with misery.

I always try to keep in mind that so many people in the world have it so much worse than I do, and I try to appreciate what I've got.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Hi kids. Woke up this morning feeling loads better. I blame the ice cream.


And just for the record, the blues to me is a one or two day thing that happens every so often. Now I do get depressed twice a year and that usually lasts a couple of weeks. But I see them as two separate things, one a passing thing and the other something to medicate.

Awwww, i'm so glad you're feeling better baby!

As for me, i go straight to my comfort food which is a Star Trek movie, usually a TOS movie. They really are my comfort foods.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

For me the BLUES set in last year; I have been trying to drink them away ever since. I have still to have any luck though; just a nasty hangover the next day. Maybe I should drink more!

 

[scotpens]

This.

 

[MetalPants]

When feeling blue, I think of all my failures, and then go inflict pain on myself.

 

[RandyS]

I just ride it out, because I know it won't last. Reading takes my mind off the bad. I don't do that "watch your favourite DVD" thing, since I know sooner or later I'll end up associating said DVD with misery.

I went through something like that because of an sad incident that happened to me on March 10, 1987. That evening, I tried to get my mind off it by watching the Star Trek episode "Obssesion" (an ironic title under the circumstances), which was the episode my local FOX station aired that day. For years afterward, with both the VHS (which I made that night) and DVD of the episode, I associated that show with the incident (involving a girl I liked, but who hated me), but now, all these years later, it's just a Star Trek episode.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The Blues are great; such a phase usually inspires a story, poem, cartoon, or at least an idea. I get depressed if I go too long without getting the Blues.

What do I do? Read something, either an old favorite or something archaic and arcane; watch old movies or TV shows; look at old comic books; listen to music from the 60 or 70s (or early 80s). I have a few folders on my computer filled with scans of old pulp magazine covers, old comics covers and Roaring 20s artistic nudes, and I will sometimes sit a while and watch a slideshow.

And, while I don't run or exercise much, I do like to walk, preferably somewhere up in the Blue Hills, or some other woodsy environment.

 

[Sakrysta]

I wallow. I watch TV obsessively. I do nothing constructive. All of which makes it worse, until finally the cycle seems to right itself, and I manage to start to crawl out of my hole.

The one thing I DON'T do (usually) is eat. Sometimes I wish there WERE such a thing as comfort food for me, but my brain chemistry just doesn't seem to work that way. So, more ice cream & chocolate for the rest of you, I guess.

 

[Angela 0077]

Well first of all l will bottle up the problem and l will take a walk if that doesnt help like you l will go and buy a chocolate or two and eat knowing l will feel bad afterwards.
if the problem is not sorted out l will get angry and upset and then sometime the people around me will sit me down and ask what is happening

I useaully have a wonderful person who will listen to my rants and he seems to know what to say .
Just listening to me is helpful but giving me a answer is good too

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Well last time I felt blue I spent the next 25 years contemplating suicide.

This made me laugh. Not because I am laughing at you, but because it mirrors my own situation.

Their are at least a few people on the board in a similar situation. We should form a social club. I'm sure our parties would be a barrell of laughs.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Checking out porn on the internet helps...

 

[trekkiedane]

I live in a magic mushroom, I'm only occasionally blue!

 

[TheBrew]

Pick up my guitar and play.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Don't get fooled again.

 

[MANT!]

watch the following..

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1948359338

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Pick up my guitar and play.

Didn't you do that yesterday?

 

[Angela 0077]

It is really sad when you see a certain amount of poeple not knowing what to do with their if it gets tough.
I think with all the amount of money owing on houses and minor things can make a person depressed.
Not knowing how to get out of that predictment can be hard too.
Alot of people dont realize that if you are having trouble with money and paying things off you can go and get help not just sit there and get depressed.
I know that banks and other places can be helpful to people if you let them know.
And then it can be made abit easer