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Things to do when you're depressed

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2866 Posts / 94M
     :   28yrs   :  
Decius

Things to do when you're depressed [+ favourites]


  • 1. Call people who aren't home and imagine how much fun they're having without you.
  • 2. Watch the Weather Channel.
  • 3. Eat a Sara LeeŽ pound cake while it's still frozen.
  • 4. Take a shower and use all the hot water.
  • 5. Check your e-mail--"Damn, nothing but advertising bullshit again."
  • 6. Wait for the mail carrier--"Wow, a flyer from a crappy furniture store and a notice from a collection agency about a bill that I spent all afternoon on long distance straightening out already, only they still can't get it right."
  • 7. Turn up the thermostat again.
  • 8. Look at last month's power bill and turn it back down.
  • 9. Watch MTV and wonder why the hell they no longer play any music but still call it MTV.
  • 10. Watch the fifteen different home shopping channels and wonder who buys all this stuff.
  • 11. Watch "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
  • 12. Cry when he says he like you just the way you are.
  • 13. Obsess about something you have no control over, like someone else's behavior or the world's climate.
  • 14. Yell at someone you love.
  • 15. Feel like shit about #14.
  • 16. Watch "Gilligan's Island."
  • 17. Watch "The Flintstones."
  • 18. Think seriously about cancelling your cable subscription.
  • 19. Sleep.
  • 20. Wake up every fifteen minutes.
  • 21. Seriously consider getting drunk.
  • 22. Decide you're too depressed to go out and get anything to drink.
  • 23. Turn the TV set back on.
  • 24. Decide to get some exercise. (Everyone says it'll make you feel better.)
  • 25. Since it's 40° and raining outside, say the hell with it.
  • 26. Make a sandwich.
  • 27. Halfway through eating the sandwich, realize the bread was moldy.
  • 28. Check your answering maching just in case someone called while you were in the shower earlier.
  • 29. Realize you were supposed to be at work a half hour ago.
  • 30. Call work with a stupid excuse for being late.
  • 31. Arrive at work late, cold and wet (see #25).
  • 32. Get thoroughly pissed off at your co-workers and your boss, quit your job, and cuss everyone out.
  • 33. Go home and realize you're now unemployed.
  • 34. Watch more of the Home Shopping Channel.
  • 35. Try to buy one of those Precious Moments figurines as a present for someone you hate.
  • 36. Be politely informed by the folks at the Home Shopping Channel that your credit card is over the limit.
  • 37. Watch Richard Simmons parade morbidly obese people in sweatsuits around his stage and try to sell you a videotape.
  • 38. Go to the kitchen to get more of that pound cake.
  • 39. Realize that you already finished it.
  • 40. Sit in the dark and listen to music that reminds you of happier days.
  • 41. Cry about the happier days you remember while doing #41.
  • 42. Balance your checkbook.
  • 43. Remember quitting your job.
  • 44. Consider possibly selling any organs you aren't using to pay your bills.
  • 45. Watch ESPN2. Realize that there are people competing professionally at sports you've never even heard of. There's a guy on TV apparently racing down a ski slope on a bicycle.
  • 46. Scrounge under the sofa cushions for loose change.
  • 47. Wonder if you could make a living riding down a ski slope on a bicycle.
  • 48. Kick yourself for thinking a positive, if unrealistic, thought.
  • 49. Time yourself to see how long you can keep both eyes open.
  • 50. Fall asleep.
  • 51. Go back to #1 and repeat as necessary.


"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

1687 Posts / 40M
     :   20yrs   :  
awakendwraith



I no joke did at least half of those things yesterday.

I'm sorry dude. I really am..


"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

1309 Posts / 42M
     :   20yrs   :  
Cynic-Al

done a couple of them.

then again, im sure most people have


"So Schrodinger's Cat is not only neither dead nor alive, but might also be sexually aroused by elbows and peanut butter?"

6 Posts / 33M
     :   20yrs   :  
Mind_of_Life

listen...those observations of a life, mean taht there are ppl that ,in thoery, are pointsless in this life...they accomplish nothin...with like bare minimum human interaction...and there are ppl taht are so obvious with there habits an pointless style of living...that we can come into a forum...and write there hold life in like 50 numbers.....damn.....also i think another thing that should be added to the list...is ....#52. joining philosophy forums to look at other ppls thoughts on the things you think about cause ur by urself too much...haha

-peace


62 Posts / 27M
     :   21yrs   :  
Zach

Those 50 bullets have been my life for the last month since I was dumped.


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