What do you do when you're depressed?


I stay in bed and isolate myself in my room day in and day out. I also stuff my face with crap and get little sleep. I tend to watch a lot of reruns of sitcoms just to strike some kind of happy emotional chord in me. I get snippy with my mother a lot and am more prone to snapping. I also hate socializing. I just want to lay on the floor in silence and watch my shows in bitter peace.

I just sort of...lay about. Sometimes I bother to turn on the TV, sometimes I don't. From time to time, the depression hits me so bad I physically find myself unable to move. I also tend to isolate myself from people, just because I know I'll get myself into fights and end up bawling all over the place when I'm in such a dark place.

I sleep, 12 hours or more each day. I guess I start to think, what's the fucking point? and don't see why I should bother getting up. When I'm waking I submerge myself into a mire of superficial distractions. Something I know won't lead to anything but self contained amusement, Warcraft for instance. The need to escape becomes sharpest when I've given myself over to the futility of trying.

stop painting and endlessly search mmos to become addicted to.

Talk about my misery to people, fantasize suicide, play games without caring for the future.

I get bad thoughts, self-destructive urges and stuff, have trouble sleeping, look for new shows to watch or new video games to play. I get very nostalgic as well, so I might read or watch or play old stuff. i don't seek out social activities or any activities that involve leaving my room. I don't really get snappy at people, just lazy and unresponsive with them. Sabout it.

When I'm genuinely depressed I don't want to do anything, but I always end up slouched down on the sofa watching endless amounts of tv, just because it takes no effort on my part and passes the time.

I basically do the same thing I always do.

I'm the same way about pretty much all of that. As long as I have something to occupy my brain, I can distract myself from the depression reasonably well. But I get bored pretty easily and once that happens, it's disastrous, and I get into a cycle of making myself feel worse.

Also, I tend to masturbate more and be interested in kinkier stuff when I'm depressed, for some reason.

same.

Hmmm... well in my random down swings I just lie in bed, and do my thinking. Till eventually I get annoyed with that way of thinking. Lucky for me these days are fewer and far between.

My depression is fueled by boredum, the more bored I become the more depressed. What I usually do is simply get on the computer and do a little graphic art design.

I also lie in bed but also for an hour or so, before trying to do whatever I can to distract myself

i buy things that i dont need online...

Indulge in whatever I can..which makes it worse once I'm done, but it helps at the time. I'll usually lie down, wrap my sleeping bag around me, and listen to music if I feel too incapacitated.

Feel unloved, think that the world is dark and tragic, that no one gives a shit about each other, that everyone is selfish, i want to be punched, i think i'm an idiot who doesn't deserve to be loved, that i should be dead.

When I'm really depressed I can be quite nervous and scared. I can't concreate at all. I have the desire to go to bed and wish that I never existed.

When I'm depressed, I'm very uncaring and I cannot help but be nervous around others, mainly because they might notice.

I take my mp3 and listen to my saddest depressive black metal songs untill I feel better.

Watch a lot of shows, eat, and locking myself in my room.

I've recently stated to sleep more when I'm depressed. I skip class to sleep.

I go through varrying levels...

First, I try to ignore it. Denial.
Then, to further support that denial I'll try to be productive against my own will thus feeling like I'm stretching myself beyond my means to accomplish what amounts to (at least, in everyone else's eyes) pretty much nothing...but when your depression is crippling to the point of wanting to do nothing at all responsibility-wise, managing to get a bit of needed cleaning/housework done regardless is a personal accomplishment....

Then I move onto tending to my hobbies as distractions...

When that fails, acceptance sets in, and usually I junkie out on caffiene while droning with music almost wallowing in it because I can't seem to escape it. Usually I just have to wait it out, and whatever happens, happens.