Zeraph

Non- perscription that is. For me alcohol makes it much much worse, as I truly found out last night

Right now I'm thinking chocolate/caffeine. But I'm open to the less legal kind as well.

Esoteric

Herb.

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Glory's Sun

pussy works wonders

Anxst

I second that. Sex is a good pick-me-up, if you can get it.

I never found drugs to help much. It's much better to do something that's normally totally off your radar and make youself have fun with it. It's hard at first, but eventually you'll find you're actually having fun.

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Baraka_Guru

Sex. (Usually self-explanatory.)

Uncontrollable laughter. (The kind that makes you erupt and can bring you to tears.)

It's amazing how similar the two are. Consider that a good response to someone who gives you either is the same as well: "Thanks, I needed that."

Quite a bit behind those are food. My favourite foods help when I'm feeling blue.

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Jinn

ENDORPHINS - nothing like nature's natural crack. Go for a 2 mile walk/run/jog.

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World's King

Shhh... Booze always helps.

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Baraka_Guru

Good point.

The exercise/sex/laughter trio all release endorphins.

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NoSoup

I'm leaning towards either Crack or Heroin.

Probably won't make you feel any better, But later, when you're starring in the nightmare that has become your life, you may look at the current times with a new appreciation. Hell, these just might be the best times of your life!

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uncle phil

potassium cyanide...

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stevie667

Ecstacy.

Of course once you come down of that jolly you'll want to curl up in a ball and cry for two days when you realised what kind of a shit hole you've come down to, but hey, at least you'll have a cracking 8 hours before hand!

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Plan9

I like how this thread suggests that when men are feeling down... they should go have sex.

I'll assume hetero to make irony stick.

Sex... with a woman... the source of most of our problems on Earth.

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ryfo

exercise with or without clothing

artisi

Laughter/comedy and a bottle of Johnny Walker

ngdawg

Only because it was the sex that caused women to give birth to the motherfuckers that caused most of our problems on Earth.

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mixedmedia

amen, sister.

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Plan9

I'm just cranky because I can't ride my Sabre. Forgive me.

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"You should not drink... and bake."

ngdawg

Have some sex....

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snowy

Exercise, whether it's walking, dancing, biking, or doing yoga, never fails to perk me up.

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Tully Mars

Drugs, blues... not a good combo. Exercise.

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Willravel

Hmm... so someone tells you he's feeling down and you jokingly suggest suicide? Classy.

Toaster126

I would also echo exercise. It's a good habit to get into, and the best way to stop feeling blue is to distract yourself and get something to be happy about. Exercising is a great way to do that. Then you can be happy you achieved a goal, more confident in your self-discipline and physical appearance, etc.

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Plan9

Zeraph: I'd avoid illegal substances. They're bad for your body and bad for your future, especially if you ever consider a law enforcement or military career.

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"You should not drink... and bake."

Toaster126

I am in partial disagreement with the above post.

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Amaras

Good first sentence. Second one sucked, in my opinion.
How about a great feast? Be it steak, or lobster, or both, that'll really buzz
one out. Follow it up with vigorous physical activity (like dancing), then falling
in temporary love (or better yet, long term) followed by a single, relatively
chaste kiss.

That has buzzed me more than the above ever has.

By the by, I'm a recovering drug addict. So for me the idea of an ultimate
drug rush at this point amuses me.
Shoot crack. If your heart doesn't stop, you'll never know another rush that
will make you wish it would as much, after a while.

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Plan9

I feel that drug users are like people who rock those hot pink lawn flamingos: selfish and tacky.

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Zeraph: You could always hit up Craigslist for a romantic encounter. Bring a baseball bat in case it's a 6'2" "babe" with an expert tuck job.

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Amaras

That was full of win. Sir.

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Plan9

I meant no offense. I am ill-equipped with life experiences to judge other people (except maybe WillRavel).

I just wanted to stress that it is important to make the most of what you can get for free.

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filtherton

Hypernationalist pride.

Plan9

... man, I just got the strangest urge to go buy a gun.

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"You should not drink... and bake."

Amaras

Actually I was serious. I'm Canadian, sometimes our accent is hard to understand.

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pan6467

Hey now drugs and Blues have been known to work wonders together. Hell, some of the best blues artists smoked weed, did heroin or whatever and their art is fan fucking tastic.

Now, if you don't have the talent, money and desire to stay high 24/7 for the rest of your life and you have the blues, then I would advise finding something.... anything that gives you a zen feeling. For me it's playing with rocks and crystals (lapidary arts), and helping others recover from addictions.

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ItWasMe

Hmmm... my favorite remedy is chocolate kisses, hot tea, and a handful of nuts. Do these steps *exactly* as I say, and think about each one as you're doing it.

*take a sip of tea. swish around. swallow.
*pop a chocolate kiss into your mouth (don't chew)
*take another sip of tea, enough to melt the chocolate a bit
*tilt your head back, and drop a nut or two into your mouth
*wait for chocolate to finish melting
*chew

Doesn't necessarily solve any problems. But along with it being yummy, thinking about each tiny step gives you something non-blue to think about for a while.

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filtherton

You should. If it weren't for those Canadians taking our jobs and pronouncing our word idiosyncratically you wouldn't have a reason to feel blue.

Plan9

I tend to like the Canadians here at TFP more than the Americans. Go figure.

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Sometimes when you're feeling blue, it's okay to indulge. I did when I got back from Afghanistan. I stayed up all night at Bragg watching Law & Order reruns and doing pushups and crunches until the wee hours of the morning while eating turkey sandwiches and drinking Jack Daniels two meals a day. I was hurting inside and I catered to it with sappy music and self-torture until I went, "Okay. Enough. Time to move on."

And I did. I figure we're only human and each of us has our own way of placating the chemical reactions in our brains we call emotions.

I'm still working on apathy, myself.

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"You should not drink... and bake."

Zeraph

Wow, this thread really got a lot of varied responses!

As far as an update goes; I'm feeling *a lot* better, starting to wonder if I'm bipolar after all. Going to talk to my doctor about it. And just so you know, I was thinking about suicide. Not that that comment would have swayed me Thank goodness I didn't go through with it.

Here's to alcohol and sex, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

Glory's Sun

there's pretty much nothing that could convince me to kill myself. If things were that bad, I would want to stay around as long as possible and torment everyone.

So yeah.. talk to your doctor.

Anormalguy

Talking to your doctor is a great idea, especially if you're having suicidal thoughts.

Alcohol & drug abuse aren't a good idea, but I admit to being a biased alcoholic in recovery.

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Zeraph

I used to think that. But then I went through some very painful things and realized just how much worse life can get.

Glory's Sun

I don't know what you've gone through, but I've gone through more in the past 2 years than I ever thought imaginable.. and I've never given suicide a serious thought..

Everyone is different.. so you're making the right decision by talking to your doctor.. I would advise however to make sure you get a second opinion especially if they prescribe you an MAOI. Doctors tend to hand those out like candy, and in many instances they aren't needed. You may just need an outlet for your emotions..not a pill.