When you are feeling a bit low, what does it for you?

[Ladymuck]

Apart from a good sob, over a good drink with good friends/partner -

(along with some Hotel Chocolat choccies) always warms my heart.

Utterly sublime.

[jumpinjackflash]

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[Bellenden Belle]

Exercise......shakes the cobwebs and gives me an opportunity to focus solely on an activity, rather than my anxieties.

The trick is motivating myself to exercise in the first place......

[felt-tip]

I get hammered.

[KidKruger]

Sex usually helps - not a long term solution though.

[edmama]

i turn to bravo mo ....takeshi's castle and have a good laugh, always works!

[Loz]

felt-tip Wrote:

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> I get hammered.

I get MC Hammered.

 

[Keef]

Booze and loud guitars!

[karter]

a night out with friends for food and drink always helps, LM. ;-)

[????]

Funnily enough (as a boozer) I think booze is a nightmare for this, just double 'black dog' with boozer's gloom the next day, personally a walk and a think does it for me but I'm very rarely low and tend to lean towards rational answers (wether they are right or wrong is besides the point)

[dita-on-tees]

I get the booze blues so I avoid when down. I think i try and accept that I feel down and although my immediate thought is to think that the situation is never going to improve I tell myself, through past experience, that eventually it does pass. I think accepting that it is normal to feel down every now and again sort of helps too, your not alone and lots of people go through it and empathise. Being with friends sometimes helps. I also have to give myself something to look forward to. Or you could just whack on the Tom Jones and have a dance in the kitchen...

[felt-tip]

I go and see my shrink.

[hibbs]

I get a hug with my mum.

[Narnia]

I try to remember that feeling down is just a reflection of my thoughts at that time. Thoughts I don't have to think. Same as feeling 'up' is a pretender too if it's based on 'happy thoughts'. Try not to think so much is my answer.

[Keef]

Booze is a depressant, and definitely not a long term solution to the blues, but it can be a great way to put it off for a night.

In the long run though, it just causes you to be more miserable.

[binary_star]

If I'm feeling a bit low and I'm near a computer, I watch Maru

If I'm feeling more than a bit low, then I don't really have a coping strategy for that to be honest. Lucky for me it doesn't happen that often.

[Tarot]

So true Nania.

[DJKillaQueen]

Hmmm.....depends how low I am. The company of friends definitely helps. Shopping too. Sport is a definite anti-depressant and I agree with Dita. It's important to have something to look forward to.

[Tarot]

I like going through my e-mail, and reading letters from my friends. then I delete all the insignificant ones. I also like leaving a message for special advisor David: Like this one , castigat ridendo mores.

[Ladymuck]

Bellenden Belle Wrote:

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> The trick is motivating myself to exercise in the

> first place......

Spot on BB...

In the meantime...

(for me anyway)...though (having seen Alina Cojocaru perform at the ROH, this clip doesn't really do her justice)...

[DJKillaQueen]

I saw Giselle earlier this year too...! It was stunningly beautiful.

[Ladymuck]

Beautiful indeed...along with Les Sylphides: mesmerising.

[DJKillaQueen]

I've never seen that one live.

[womanofdulwich]

i try and find as much sun/ daylight as I can. Get out of LOndon for 45 mins south- top of north downs is good.A bar of chocolate also helps.

[PeckhamRose]

Motorcycle ride. Seriously does it for me.