How do you pull yourself out of a funk?
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 02:23 pm
I'd like to collect a list of ideas and things to do to shake off a depression or funk for the DWD crowd. How do we make ourselves feel better and whole when life is spitting on us? I collected quite a few during my years of marriage which I will post throughout the week.
But I am interested in what you personally do when you are feeling down that works to pick you back up and put you back on your feet.
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 02:50 pm
Take a nice long walk and look at stuff. Preferably in a mall. or take myself to a movie. or treat myself to --well--something.
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 05:21 pm
I find a great quote and use chalk to write it in big block letters on a large sidewalk or parking lot. Crosswalks are good too, if you can do it without getting hit by a car! Sidewalks at colleges, city centers, elementary schools, well traveled restaurant districts. Great fun!
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 05:48 pm
its less expensive than retail therapy and gets attention too
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 07:22 pm
Take a bubble bath, with a cold beer, pamper a bit, listen to music, embrace the funk for a while and get a good nights sleep, everything always looks better in the morning.
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 08:44 pm
I watch a fav show of mine: The XFiles.
I have a big TV... get myself a treat, and watch a few episodes of this show at a time.
The show helps me realize that it is O.K. to be single... because the two main characters are single :)
Looking at the male main character reminds me that there a lot more men out there I need to meet ! :)
Tue Nov 03 2009 - 09:39 pm
Run Forrest, RUN!!!
Wed Nov 04 2009 - 09:52 am
Read the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series beginning w/ "One for the Money" and going through 13? 14? Enough for at least 6 months of fun. I have never laughed so hard in my entire life. It's hard to be depressed when you're laughing so hard you're falling off the couch!!!
"Let's face it - the basic premise of this book is so whacked that you just gotta laugh before you even start reading it! Stephanie Plum, a down on her luck and out of work lingerie buyer cons her cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a job as a "recovery agent", a skip tracer, a bounty hunter. She's brash, vulgar, feminine, cute, sexy, tarty, sassy, funny and, on top it of it all, she's got balls made of brass." She is a single woman w/ all the problems of a single woman. But she is also a DWD goddess and worth emulating too. After a few hours in her life, yours will look like a piece of cake.
Try it, it really works. Her Grandma Mazur is my hero. When I'm 90 THAT'S the woman I want to be!
Wed Nov 04 2009 - 09:54 am
Yes, Robin.
Definitely sleep. Take two benedryl with a big glass of wine and call me in the morning!
It is true, everything DOES look better (or at least has lost it's edge) by morning. It's the nighttime obsessing that will really run you down.
SZ
Wed Nov 04 2009 - 03:57 pm
wayyyyyyyy i like this cos i have some good was to cheer you up when your down ..........
1. Play your favoutie tunes .......very loud .....move the furniture outta the way and dance your ass off.....don't stop if you feel tierd ...keep going cos you gotta push yourself that bit further to start the good feeling ......i call it the happy zone :)
2. Go out and get really i mean really Drunk and dance your ass off and flirt with everything male not matter how young or old .....and leave them standing ( that is great fun a real laugh)
3. If its the past thats bit you in the ass and that why you feel down .....write it down i mean all of it then take it out side and burn it ........sounds silly but it works.
4. Still feeling down.......go and do something really i mean really really silly ..........don't even think about what others will think about you .......who cares if it makes your smile.
5. this one is boring ............but if you can't sleep ....rearrange the furniture at daft o'clock ......' mind sorting ' stops you from thinkng too much .
Wed Nov 04 2009 - 04:22 pm
Great ones, Puz!
Your tunes reminded me of another one.
Road trip! Take a road trip and go to a different place. Even if it's just a park in another city at least 25 min away. Stock up the CD player with your fav feel good music and sing at the top of your lungs. Singing therapy. If you're alone no one will complain!
SZ
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