What do you guys do when life has you down?

[Sky Motion]

Title says all. Life has me down, my job sucks, I can't get into my schoolwork, I feel VERY unmotivated and feel like there's something really missing in my life

Helpful advice and good vibes are appreciated!

 

[mescaline-man]

[YOUTUBE]

:lol:

 

[boogerz]

I usually remind myself that this life we have is special.

 

[mew]

remember that everything is a spectrum and this low i am experiencing will yield a great high, just as night begets day, and winter begets summer. everything cycles. it is in this state of despair that a different perspective is appreciated.

often i remember the experiences ive had and how joyful i was to be alive after.

 

[Eliyahu]

SkyMotion-

What are your passions in life? What do you create? 'O' being of light? In what way do you work to transform the darkness into light? How often are you able to be the light in some ones life?

Do you make Art, Music, Do you write poetry, novels? How are you leaving your imprint on humanity????

These are all questions I ask my self all the time as I struggle with depression now and again and from time to time

Constantly have to remind myself that I have a job to do and there is much work to be done, and I 'm not talking about the old 9-5

If all else fails you know what to do....DMT

And if everything succeeds then you still know what to do.....

Smoke DMT anyway

 

[The Day Tripper]

Do something to get my mind off it (nat king cole & a loooong bike ride does wonders ), and try and remember that that's just what I'm experiencing and not what i am or have the capability to be. Life is so much more than what i may be experiencing it as when it gets me down. That's just imbalance of thought distorting things beyond the raw experience and potential for learning from life's ups and downs.

Like bill always said- remember, its just a ride .

 

[mescaline-man]

If all else fails you know what to do....DMT

And if everything succeeds then you still know what to do.....

Smoke DMT anyway

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[mew]

i have a few sayings i like to employ

this too shall pass
(everything is temporary)

atleast im not in africa
(shit sucks there, bro)

i thank you for the struggle
(difficult experiences cultivate strength)

 

[scudge]

slip into a self induced trance of extacy and awareness, shoot electricity out of my hands, the usual. Revolt against the machine, hacking it to shreds. If you are able to take refuge in your mind with peace, nothing can stop you besides food and water, showers. All which can be obtained through meditation and music. Most importantly solitude.

 

[SpartanII]

When I find myself indulging in energy-draining emotions, I go for a meditation walk at night when it's quiet, dark, and magical. I capture the feeling of gratitude for life and the potential to overcome any challenge it throws at me and create any dream I desire, exploring perception in all of it's weird, beautiful, and infinite forms.

 

[scudge]

How dare you one-up me.

 

[Guyomech]

In the great artistic composition that is your life, dark moments are the shadows that cause the highlights to pop off the canvas.

Also:

Spend a little time outdoors, in Nature. Hell, start doing your homework outdoors.

Unless you are in the American Midwest, where the heat will melt out your eyeballs.

 

[Michal_R]

"Sky Motion":

I also think it is important trying to be around people - friends / someone who cares about you / who you care about. Visit your parents/grandparents, for example. Do your schoolwork in the library instead of at home. Change your job. Take a break and travel around a bit. Go and take a hike in the mountains (+ smoke some DMT at a safe place )

(Just some thoughts that sometimes help me)

Cheer up: We are the true masters of our lives. Really.

 

[anrchy]

I have had down moments in life a handful of times. What I did was change.

I changed the situation around. Analyze the issues that are causing the problem. Is it a certain person or group of people? Distance your self or fully disassociate.

Is it your job? Change jobs. Goto school. Or apply for a differs position. Doing nothing will elicit nothing.

Is it where you live? Or what you live in? Move. Save up of you have to.

I have had hard times that required extra effort in order to change things. Changing jobs can be extra difficult in times like now with jobs being hard to find. It's not impossible in most cases and again doing nothing about a job you don't like won't fix the problem on its own.

I've become more happy in life due to making changes. Change is essential.

Change.

 

[christian]

Title says all. Life has me down, my job sucks, I can't get into my schoolwork, I feel VERY unmotivated and feel like there's something really missing in my life

So you're like most of us then!:d

1.get out and about, do something fun, have something to eat with friends, and a nice talk.

2. Actively seek another job, on no account put up with an unhappy scenario.

3. Do you need your schoolwork, why are you doing it, what are you studying, what are your dreams...What does life really mean to you?? 8)

>>>SORT IT OUT, DEPRESSION IS A COP OUT!

 

[rjb]

I can relate to what you're going through, as I've been myself through that process not very long ago. I think everybody does earlier or later and it sucks indeed. But you can use this time to engage in different activities and do things you liked but never knew. It might not feel like it helps at first, but give it a little time. Read books, go out in nature, play/listen to music, meditate, what ever you do, always remember that things will work out, it just takes a little while for the bad stuff to play itself out. If there's a bright side to having a bad time, it's that you have the good times to prepare for, and that should be exciting. After practicing this state of mind for a while, there won't be good/bad to worry about. Because there's just stuff that happens, and will always happen, regardless of our liking it or not; changing how we respond to things is the only thing fully in our control. It's just a ride, indeed, so why not enjoy the wonders of it? For all I know, we're all equally clueless, and that gives me some comfort.

 

[hixidom]

Things that have made me feel better recently:
1. MDMA!!!!!+rave+close friends
2. Longboarding
3. Engage more in school (it's hard to feel positive about academics when you've got so many other things going on and you're only holding on to your school work by a thread). Spend more time at school studying. Talk to professors about helping with research. This is, of course, assuming that you really care about school.
4. Use psychedelics for the first time. (I guess that's not an option)
5. Stop using psychedelics until you've figured things out.

I wish there were a formula for getting out of depression (without meds), but there isn't. If I could add a saying to mew's list, I would add:
It's just brain chemistry
(bouts of depression usually aren't your fault)

which kinda goes along with his first saying.
Anyways, from the posts I've read, the general consensus is that you should change something. So the best advice is probably just to think deeply about the different facets of your life and figure out what that something is that needs to be changed.

 

[Sky Motion]

Thank you all so much for the replys and advice, I have read every post

For the record, I do NOT have depression, I have experienced it before and that's not what's happening now.

I have been doing a lot better in general after stopping indulging in MDMA but I still go through weird times where I seem to be completely out of it..

Constant effort to change + will pick up meditation where I left off.

It might be time for a psychedelic voyage soon too

Love you all!

 

[Kobranek]

I reassure myself that everything that I am going through is for a reason and that I MUST continue forward on this path....and that if I don't I am as good as dead!
For this experience called life I am truly appreciative and grateful for everything I have been given thus far...even if I can't completely understand at this moment.

 

[Infinite I]

Title says all. Life has me down, my job sucks, I can't get into my schoolwork, I feel VERY unmotivated and feel like there's something really missing in my life

So you're like most of us then!:d

1.get out and about, do something fun, have something to eat with friends, and a nice talk.

2. Actively seek another job, on no account put up with an unhappy scenario.

3. Do you need your schoolwork, why are you doing it, what are you studying, what are your dreams...What does life really mean to you?? 8)

>>>SORT IT OUT, DEPRESSION IS A COP OUT!

totally agree, im currently living in a foreign country and everythings great about 4 days ago I stayed in and made music, great fun but then it became a bit boring myself but I hung around and had that unmotivated vibe about everything, went out and met some friends then went to work, a job i really enjoy and I was fine and all those bad vibes were gone. Going out with friends really helped, i love time alone but then too much of alone time doesnt work and you can get down for no reason really which I noticed, coffee with friends sorted that out in no time, couldnt beleive I let myself get that way for no reason really. Also going to work helped me as I like my job.