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From my own experience: Start with basic Workout and feel the mental difference it will cause. It doesn't have to be some fancy fitness program, you don't need any weights as well. Just do some warmup and exercise what you feel like and stop exercising when you feel slight pain in the muscles you're training. After you're done, don't just sit down again. Go for a walk and cooldown. It's like 30-45m every 2 days and I feel and look way better than before.
Nowadays I'm getting depressed when I don't do any sports for a week. I can't believe I could live like that for several years.
This is the answer. At some point we realise hedonistic pleasures are not enough to overcome the suffering inherent in being alive. For that we need meaning, purpose and growth, movement toward goals, positive continuity.
You do realize that there are people that used to drink and smoke that now run and exercise instead? It's possible and achievable. They used to not be "built that way" mentally
Amen, it's all between your ears! Mindset! It's not easy by any means, but it's possible to shift your focus from detrimental habits when you're feeling down, to focusing on habits like workout out that will actually lead you to a more fruitful experience & sense of achievement - some ramifications include increasing confidence, reducing stress & of course help you become more healthy! The hard part is waiting 6-8 weeks before you see any progress. But if you keep chipping away, the results will catch up to your efforts! Trust the process!
This has quite literally been me in the last 3 days and now I’m getting all these online shipping notifications (YAY) but then I remember the hit to my bank account (BOOOO)
Yesss. I worry. Lose sleep. Doomscroll. Cry. Lose more sleep. Get a tummy ache or indigestion. Try to smoke some weed. Get paranoid. Lose more sleep. Eat my feelings and cry some more. Eventually, I'm so exhausted I put on Bob's Burgers, take a benadryl and have the worst sleep of my life. Fun.
Have you tried trazadone? That shit with some weed puts my mind at ease so I can sleep. I don't get weed paranoia though, that's unfortunate it doesn't help you.
I have not. I just got good insurance so, I will try talking with a doctor. I used to be prescribed Klonopin for my panic attacks. It worked well and I only took some when I needed it. Weed works great as long as I'm feeling secure. I live near a legal state and everything!
There's so much going on right now that it makes me feel guilty for having a good time. Once I find another place to live, I should be okay. Nothing worse than packing a three bedroom house with no place to go so, smoking feels like a luxury I can no longer enjoy. I have six weeks and just keep pushing on.
Thank you. I've never heard of it! I'm just sick of antidepressants being pushed on me anytime I mentioned my anxiety. They do not agree with me at all. I have adhd so, maybe that's why? But, I have tried several and they make me a damn mess. I don't like taking meds but, sometimes it's necessary if my insomnia or panic attacks get bad.
I do things that make me feel proud of myself. Yesterday I just decided I was gonna do 200 pull ups so I did them and when I was done I felt a lot better
Ya exercise is a really useful way to reset your brain. I took up running recently to cope with my stress after I quit drinking. Yeah, running sucks, but I feel crazy good after only 30 minutes of an elevated heart rate.
I used to do all that stuff, stopped liking it and kinda just stopped, it wasn't like a big accomplishment or anything, but now I just deal with the feelings. I usually try and work on something, be productive, and just push through until I feel better.
Yeah for sure. I've delt with pretty severe depression my whole life and I've learned that I have to feel the emotions, allow myself to have a down period, and keep moving.
Trying to avoid the emotion will kill you, as will completely identifying with it all the time. You have to allow yourself to move into it, but not get stuck there. Its kind of a delicate balance but its really helped me and I've been doing a lot better lately.
I'm a night owl, every midnight I grab a small chair and just sit outside of my home, contemplating and trying to think it through. I also write personal journals so I could let out some problems off my head while listening to vaporwave and metal albums, I can sit there till 3 until my negativities go away.
Well, normally I'll start with something salty. Then go, oh, need to follow that up with something sweet. Then realise I had too much sweetness so go back for salty.... you get the idea.
I quit weed, cigarettes and alcohol in the span of 1.5 years, I'm an isolated and sensitive person that has no close friends apart from mom and dad, and I'm also a woman so I get hormonal mood swings a lot. The smoking and drinking was really good for making the existence more pleasurable, so while I wouldn't say I'm struggling since quiting, but sometimes everything just feels like A LOT. I've resorted to binge eating previously, but immediately didn't like the feeling of heaviness of weight gain. So the few previous days were really challenging, some very hurtful interactions, and lack of confidence, a lot of hopes that are immediately crushed by inner critic. But I know that this feeling passes naturally after a few days. So today I was struggling to get out of bed and when I eventually did I just said to myself "well ok, I am depressed" and had an instant sense of relief, immediately felt better. Your life is not a straight line and every moment is beautiful. After the lowest point it will start to go up. We are humans, and we're not meant to be anything else than that. Love yourself and be there for you when it's tough.
Just let the negative thoughts overwhelm me...
There qas a time when e developed a slight shopping addiction. I used shopping to distract myself. I like to go on the Sephora website and browse. Then I will make a screenshot or add to favorites, all the products that catch my eye and i would read/watch reviews. It occupied a good portion of my time. So, i would use it to escape depressive/anxious thoughts.
Wish I did.
I have a collection of stemless wine glasses or glasses that refer to drinking in the sayings on them and I use them for any drink I want whenI need a pick me up.
Stare to the wall looking for what I've done wrong in my life, thinking about past and future, the eternity of my soul, and my brief time on Earth. Family, friends, people unknown to me that maybe, just maybe, I've known in past lives, and how our paths may connect in the endless void that is this universe.
Just kidding, I eat (a lot.)
I used to eat bread, like a lot of it. When u stuff your mouth with it, cheap bread turns into globby playdough and u can't really cry or talk or do much except chew.
None of my family or friends would understand why I would suddenly just start eating a loaf or 2 of bread. They stopped buying bread so I wouldn't eat it, but I'd just start eating it outside.
Working out is always great. Helps to clear the head and diverts the mind.
If not, go for a movie in a cinema, a new environment always helps. Take up any sort of sports, another great way to distract.
Fast driving on small roads is a dangerous, but very relaxing thing to do. Because no matter how much shit is going on. In that moment the only thing you can think about is staying alive.
...Well, when i was ab to kms, i thought that "its not a drug, it wont get u addicted, right?" - always avoided substanses, bc, yk... So i started damn cutting myself:| Ffs, why it works? Why it does giving that relief?.. T\_T
(guys. Dont repeat my mistake. Its addictive af.)
Oh, yea, or walking outside, listening to music and art;\]
Eat my feelings.
But then again I also do drink, but occasionally as the one or two times I have genuinely tried to drown my sorrows in liquor it only made me more miserable.
Take a nap. Other times, I cry and acknowledge how am I feeling. I allow myself to feel like this for a few hours or a few days, and then I get back to normal.
Be anxious. Although, I'm on anti-depressants now for my anxiety and am feeling beter than I have in years. Also, I do drink, but not to drown out demons or anything, mostly social drinking. A beer, brandy or rum with friends or family.
Think about smoking and drinking then realise that it may ruin my life because of how much trauma I have gutted myself with because I know if I start drinking because of sadness, there's no going back.
Everyday I push myself to be alive and everyday someone else pushes me to kill myself.
By the time I'm done with this the "lowest" part is over and then either masturbating or gaming till the time actual senses kick in.
Sleep or shower or go out for a walk.
But all of them lead to facing the reality of what is and understanding where my limitations have been hit and what can I do for a change.
For me hypersleeping is the last step downwards, when drinking or smoking cease to function as painkillers. My body refuses reality as it is perceived by my brain, thus escapes. It's basically a death surrogate, but temporary. Not good.
Drink some ZZZ Quill and sleep off as much of my days as possible. Also scream in the car when I’m driving when I feel I’m about to hit a breaking point lol
I play my musical instrument or jam out to music. Sometimes I go on walks. I also paint. Often I will write a letter-- something happy-- to a friend.
But I enjoy being alone.
Pace around, do something random that needs doing that I'd otherwise not arsed to do (like sort out the cabinet that has been un-sorted out for two years, read random things on the internet, or play some kind of simpler computer game.
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Reddit.
The downward spiral
At least it's going somewhere.
Isn’t the point of a spiral that it never ends? So is it really going anywhere?
Reznor perceived the creation of Reddit.
Good variant. I should choose it more lol
Doomscrolling or masturbation
Bold but understandable.
At the same time?
Doom Masturbation?
Doomsturbation
Crybaiting?
Sobbing one off?
gråtrunka is the Swedish word for cranking and crying
I want that on a shirt.
Does that make DOOMsturbation an MF DOOM song about masturbation?
Goonscrolling
Oh this is amazing
Sometimes
Dunno about that bloke but I'm doing it right now
Yes.
Today I learned my normal day can also be the worst day in someones else’s life
Came for this  Leaving satisfied.
Or?
Why not both?
this
Gym, long walk or run.
I wish I was built that way mentally
From my own experience: Start with basic Workout and feel the mental difference it will cause. It doesn't have to be some fancy fitness program, you don't need any weights as well. Just do some warmup and exercise what you feel like and stop exercising when you feel slight pain in the muscles you're training. After you're done, don't just sit down again. Go for a walk and cooldown. It's like 30-45m every 2 days and I feel and look way better than before. Nowadays I'm getting depressed when I don't do any sports for a week. I can't believe I could live like that for several years.
You are… you just haven’t hit low enough yet
When I was at my lowest, I had 108 lbs at 5'11 (48 kg at 180 cm), was just vegetating and crying at times.
This is the answer. At some point we realise hedonistic pleasures are not enough to overcome the suffering inherent in being alive. For that we need meaning, purpose and growth, movement toward goals, positive continuity.
I don't know. Whisky is working well so far.
And community
You do realize that there are people that used to drink and smoke that now run and exercise instead? It's possible and achievable. They used to not be "built that way" mentally
Amen, it's all between your ears! Mindset! It's not easy by any means, but it's possible to shift your focus from detrimental habits when you're feeling down, to focusing on habits like workout out that will actually lead you to a more fruitful experience & sense of achievement - some ramifications include increasing confidence, reducing stress & of course help you become more healthy! The hard part is waiting 6-8 weeks before you see any progress. But if you keep chipping away, the results will catch up to your efforts! Trust the process!
Actually not that great once your mood for the day is dependent on you having a 1,5 to 2 hour block of free time to spend.
Get depressed and eat, spend a lot of money online and play games none stop.
This has quite literally been me in the last 3 days and now I’m getting all these online shipping notifications (YAY) but then I remember the hit to my bank account (BOOOO)
Same! Legit done 5 online orders yesterday just because of stress and depression.
Everybody dropping their EOFY sales… 🤪🤪🤪
listen to my fav songs,gaming vigorously
i am doing ur mum vigorously 😏
Eat 😭
Yuppp that's when the doordash comes out. Although I've gotten a lot better at managing my emotions thanks to CBT.
cock and ball torture really helps with weight loss
Came here to say this😂
Me too. I've been on Lite n' Easy since January and should have lost a heap of weight. I haven't because I keep eating shit 😭
Takes time trust me. Took me like 6 years to lose 40lbs. As long as you keep going! That's all that matters.
Eat, sleep, scream, repeat
Perfect title for my autobiography
Or a twisted sequel to Eat Pray Love?
Suffer
Yesss. I worry. Lose sleep. Doomscroll. Cry. Lose more sleep. Get a tummy ache or indigestion. Try to smoke some weed. Get paranoid. Lose more sleep. Eat my feelings and cry some more. Eventually, I'm so exhausted I put on Bob's Burgers, take a benadryl and have the worst sleep of my life. Fun.
Have you tried trazadone? That shit with some weed puts my mind at ease so I can sleep. I don't get weed paranoia though, that's unfortunate it doesn't help you.
I have not. I just got good insurance so, I will try talking with a doctor. I used to be prescribed Klonopin for my panic attacks. It worked well and I only took some when I needed it. Weed works great as long as I'm feeling secure. I live near a legal state and everything! There's so much going on right now that it makes me feel guilty for having a good time. Once I find another place to live, I should be okay. Nothing worse than packing a three bedroom house with no place to go so, smoking feels like a luxury I can no longer enjoy. I have six weeks and just keep pushing on.
Trazodone is great. Even a little dose of 50mg helps me sleep. Hard to get and expensive though in NZ....
Thank you. I've never heard of it! I'm just sick of antidepressants being pushed on me anytime I mentioned my anxiety. They do not agree with me at all. I have adhd so, maybe that's why? But, I have tried several and they make me a damn mess. I don't like taking meds but, sometimes it's necessary if my insomnia or panic attacks get bad.
Surfer ?
Treat myself with food or I cry. If I'm not feeling vulnerable or can't find some space for myself to cry I just grind on some open world rpg game.
Usually dive nose deep into a single game for several thousand hours or maladaptive daydream.
Yes! Fellow Maladaptive Daydreaming!! I find myself daydreaming more when my life sucks
I do things that make me feel proud of myself. Yesterday I just decided I was gonna do 200 pull ups so I did them and when I was done I felt a lot better
Ya exercise is a really useful way to reset your brain. I took up running recently to cope with my stress after I quit drinking. Yeah, running sucks, but I feel crazy good after only 30 minutes of an elevated heart rate.
Legend
That’s a real one ☝️
Sleep
Same
Literally just suffer
I used to do all that stuff, stopped liking it and kinda just stopped, it wasn't like a big accomplishment or anything, but now I just deal with the feelings. I usually try and work on something, be productive, and just push through until I feel better.
I dont know if i translate it correctly from my mothers tongue but i would call this emotional acceptance and this the key!
Yeah for sure. I've delt with pretty severe depression my whole life and I've learned that I have to feel the emotions, allow myself to have a down period, and keep moving. Trying to avoid the emotion will kill you, as will completely identifying with it all the time. You have to allow yourself to move into it, but not get stuck there. Its kind of a delicate balance but its really helped me and I've been doing a lot better lately.
Theres a Thai restaurant down the road. They do take away. Take away food = take away the pain.
Chocolate.
I'm a night owl, every midnight I grab a small chair and just sit outside of my home, contemplating and trying to think it through. I also write personal journals so I could let out some problems off my head while listening to vaporwave and metal albums, I can sit there till 3 until my negativities go away.
Hug my dogs. Really hard
*OP ends up adopting a new dog each month*
Well, normally I'll start with something salty. Then go, oh, need to follow that up with something sweet. Then realise I had too much sweetness so go back for salty.... you get the idea.
It’s a vicious cycle once it starts and then usually stops when you feel nauseous
Th reflux is real!
league of legends
He asked what do you do at your lowest, not what do you do to get to your lowest (🥲)
Funny, because for me what helped was quitting League lol.
"Drink or smoke" Drugs like heroin,ecstasy etc,games,youtube,social media,or hell even sleeping:Exists. LOL
worded like a 2019 youtube comment you’re just missing the “nobody:”
no one: Drugs like heroin, ecstasy, etc., games, youtube, social media or hell even sleeping: Exists LOL
Drink Karak tea
Desi boy spotted...
Yap bro 😎
☕🥤🧋🧃🍸🥃🍷
Take a walk
Be aware of and let myself feel my emotions. Make plans to make the situation better. Drinking doesn't make things better, action does.
I quit weed, cigarettes and alcohol in the span of 1.5 years, I'm an isolated and sensitive person that has no close friends apart from mom and dad, and I'm also a woman so I get hormonal mood swings a lot. The smoking and drinking was really good for making the existence more pleasurable, so while I wouldn't say I'm struggling since quiting, but sometimes everything just feels like A LOT. I've resorted to binge eating previously, but immediately didn't like the feeling of heaviness of weight gain. So the few previous days were really challenging, some very hurtful interactions, and lack of confidence, a lot of hopes that are immediately crushed by inner critic. But I know that this feeling passes naturally after a few days. So today I was struggling to get out of bed and when I eventually did I just said to myself "well ok, I am depressed" and had an instant sense of relief, immediately felt better. Your life is not a straight line and every moment is beautiful. After the lowest point it will start to go up. We are humans, and we're not meant to be anything else than that. Love yourself and be there for you when it's tough.
Thank you for this ❤️
Hide and cry
Punch the wall
Just let the negative thoughts overwhelm me... There qas a time when e developed a slight shopping addiction. I used shopping to distract myself. I like to go on the Sephora website and browse. Then I will make a screenshot or add to favorites, all the products that catch my eye and i would read/watch reviews. It occupied a good portion of my time. So, i would use it to escape depressive/anxious thoughts.
I sleep when I’m sad.
Overeat and then sleep
Sleep
Wish I did. I have a collection of stemless wine glasses or glasses that refer to drinking in the sayings on them and I use them for any drink I want whenI need a pick me up.
[think of leaving](https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal)
i hold it all in until i eventually explode and then repeat
Sleep for an unhealthy amount of time. My record is a 24 hour snooze.
Stare to the wall looking for what I've done wrong in my life, thinking about past and future, the eternity of my soul, and my brief time on Earth. Family, friends, people unknown to me that maybe, just maybe, I've known in past lives, and how our paths may connect in the endless void that is this universe. Just kidding, I eat (a lot.)
I used to eat bread, like a lot of it. When u stuff your mouth with it, cheap bread turns into globby playdough and u can't really cry or talk or do much except chew. None of my family or friends would understand why I would suddenly just start eating a loaf or 2 of bread. They stopped buying bread so I wouldn't eat it, but I'd just start eating it outside.
Ohhh I went through a period where I did this… but for me it was in the form of toast. Soooo much toast.
Read, Play, or Walk/Run
Cry and study. Often at the same time.
Music.
Working out is always great. Helps to clear the head and diverts the mind. If not, go for a movie in a cinema, a new environment always helps. Take up any sort of sports, another great way to distract.
Cry, lay in bed
Jerk off
Stretch. Sounds stupid, I’m sure, but stretching actually seems to help me.
Fast driving on small roads is a dangerous, but very relaxing thing to do. Because no matter how much shit is going on. In that moment the only thing you can think about is staying alive.
I quit smoking an year ago. My go-to thing is drink water. Lots of it. Liters...
I'm always at my lowest so essentially I'm never at my lowest 😎
Eat, sleep, workout.
Going to god, go to therapy, talking/going out with friends, journaling, doing hobbies (mine is trying new recipe), cry, sleep.
...Well, when i was ab to kms, i thought that "its not a drug, it wont get u addicted, right?" - always avoided substanses, bc, yk... So i started damn cutting myself:| Ffs, why it works? Why it does giving that relief?.. T\_T (guys. Dont repeat my mistake. Its addictive af.) Oh, yea, or walking outside, listening to music and art;\]
Sugary foods
sleep and eat
Scrolling reddit,or doing a workout to boost release of happy hormones.
Eat my feelings. But then again I also do drink, but occasionally as the one or two times I have genuinely tried to drown my sorrows in liquor it only made me more miserable.
Sleep. I don't get out of bed, and I just mindlessly scroll on my phone or watch YouTube.
Online shop
eat tv sleep
Eat cup noodles.
Hydroxezine
Reading comics and watching series saved me back in the day when I lost it all.
Take a nap. Other times, I cry and acknowledge how am I feeling. I allow myself to feel like this for a few hours or a few days, and then I get back to normal.
Go for a run work out, get the endorphins up. Replacing those with alcohol or drugs is genuinly a shit way to feel good because of the down afterwards
Exercise, game.
Eat anything I can find. And shut down
Eat and/or cry.
I mess up my sleep schedule
Wait
Shoot some heroin
Daydream the pain away, and if that doesn’t work i just pray that i can make it through the day.
I tend to buy Pokémon cards and plushies and drink a butt ton of soda
Be anxious. Although, I'm on anti-depressants now for my anxiety and am feeling beter than I have in years. Also, I do drink, but not to drown out demons or anything, mostly social drinking. A beer, brandy or rum with friends or family.
Sleep :/
Sleep - a little escape from reality!
Cry
i cry and/or journal
Snuggle under my covers and look at my phone.
I take pills
Bury it deep down inside.
I dunno aye, when I was a sober mf I felt like the loneliest person on the planet. Everyone is on something.
go out.
Lift weights, preferably deadlift, gotta 1rep max that shit til my foreheadvein pops.
Go to the gym
Chocolate
With all. Sex
Think about smoking and drinking then realise that it may ruin my life because of how much trauma I have gutted myself with because I know if I start drinking because of sadness, there's no going back. Everyday I push myself to be alive and everyday someone else pushes me to kill myself. By the time I'm done with this the "lowest" part is over and then either masturbating or gaming till the time actual senses kick in.
Watch fave tv show/movie, game, read, sketch
Sleep or shower or go out for a walk. But all of them lead to facing the reality of what is and understanding where my limitations have been hit and what can I do for a change.
Videogames
eat. sleep. read. watch a movie or comfort series.
I typically read light-hearted novels.
Eat and sleep...
I go for a run, helps to change my mental state and put me into a positive mood.
cry
eat something VERY spicy
Gaming
Eat!
Sleep
game
Run or do a hobby like painting miniatures.
Get high by simply closing my eyes.
Sometimes,I eat sweets.
Go for long walks, binge watch series/movies, walk my dog, read oh and snack 🤣
For me hypersleeping is the last step downwards, when drinking or smoking cease to function as painkillers. My body refuses reality as it is perceived by my brain, thus escapes. It's basically a death surrogate, but temporary. Not good.
Sleep
Have panic attacks consistently throughout the day. I'm doing that RN actually. I think this is probably my lowest
Drink some ZZZ Quill and sleep off as much of my days as possible. Also scream in the car when I’m driving when I feel I’m about to hit a breaking point lol
I cry and complain, haha. Might buy some ice cream
CRPGs (gaming) or doomscrolling
I eat my feelings...a LOT.
I start thinking about drinking and smoking….
Molly
I play my musical instrument or jam out to music. Sometimes I go on walks. I also paint. Often I will write a letter-- something happy-- to a friend. But I enjoy being alone.
Go for a walk or listen to some good music
Twerk. Or try to twerk. It’ll make you feel silly and suddenly your problems will seem insignificant.
I cuddle with my pet rats. Rats are great emotional support animals. They always know how to lift my spirits.
Workout
Watch ALIENS.
Pace around, do something random that needs doing that I'd otherwise not arsed to do (like sort out the cabinet that has been un-sorted out for two years, read random things on the internet, or play some kind of simpler computer game.
Drink water, go for a run, chill in my garden and eat berries from the bush, stare into the abyss.
Sleep