Every Day Is Worse.

[Mai72]

Alan Watts on death.

 

[MtnMan]

Me thinks someone didn't get anything on their Christmas wish list, and is spiraling into the black hole of self-pity.

 

[Torn Mind]

OP is in spiral season.

 

[pauldun170]

What is this thread about?

About tree fiddy

 

[snoopy7548]

So what you're saying is, every day is the worst day of your life?

Wow, that's messed up!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

So what you're saying is, every day is the worst day of your life?

Tomorrow will be the worst day of the rest of your life.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm over here at the other end of the spectrum, every day is great.

 

[digiram]

Embrace the small things in life. The taste of food, sound of music, visuals in a game or film. Enjoy all the things your senses provide you. Take up a hobby. Personally, I love music. So I’ll head down to the basement and practice my turntable mixing or scratching when I’m bored. Sometimes pick up a kalimba and try to play the notes from some of the tunes I love. Watch a movie with the family. Etc. anything.

 

[Captante]

Tomorrow will be the worst day of the rest of your life.

I certainly hope not .... that would take some doing!

Obviously at some point in the (hopefully!) distant future when I fall ill and/or die things will inevitably get worse but I've learned not to dwell on it.

All that accomplishes is making you suffer twice!

 

[spacejamz]

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.

 

[Torn Mind]

Tomorrow will be the worst day of the rest of your life.

Add a scherzo to your life.

Although probably like Brahms...you'll just interpret it in the most miserable way possible.

I doubt you're as hot as a young Brahms though.

 

[Mai72]

Embrace the small things in life. The taste of food, sound of music, visuals in a game or film. Enjoy all the things your senses provide you. Take up a hobby. Personally, I love music. So I’ll head down to the basement and practice my turntable mixing or scratching when I’m bored. Sometimes pick up a kalimba and try to play the notes from some of the tunes I love. Watch a movie with the family. Etc. anything.

The moment my friend. Live in it. Embrace it. The only time is now. We tend to overthink everything.

 

[brianmanahan]

We tend to overthink everything.

in a minute there is time
for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse

 

[BoomerD]

Any time you wake up without a tag on your toe...or you're looking at grass from the bottom...it's a good day.

 

[Meghan54]

Maybe listen to some stuff with just a teeny bit more optimism in the lyrics.

Maybe like Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People?

 

[UsandThem]

Maybe like Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People?

Yeah, something like that.

Although when I'm really, really down, I usually go with Rico Suave.

 

[brianmanahan]

Maybe listen to some stuff with just a teeny bit more optimism in the lyrics.

this is my go-to:

 

[Captante]

 

[bba-tcg]

Reality is what you choose for it to be. My reality is good. My days are great.

 

[brianmanahan]

that song is so good!

 

[Spacehead]

Maybe listen to some stuff with just a teeny bit more optimism in the lyrics.

Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life"

Take a break from P&N, news in general for a bit. Find something else to do till you get feeling better.

 

[MrSquished]

@Lost_in_the_HTTP

Try to get help if you are feeling this down. Make yourself go out and get sun and take walks and socialize. It's really tough but it's the only way. Reach out to anybody close to you.

 

[UsandThem]

Always stay out of P&N..........

FYQFY.

 

[Charmonium]

I think the OP should make an appt for MD shrink. Use healthgrades.com or any other source you know let's you sort by average user review. Depending on where you live, just finding someone that's taking new patients might be a challenge. But what you need right now is a diagnosis. Advanced practice nurses are also an option and they can write scripts. I'd try to hold on to the idea of getting an MD but not a PCP. A trained, practicing psychiatrist.

Most depression is situational. Think, bad news about your health or that of someone you care/cared about. Loss of a job, significant other, anything else that felt like a kick in the nuts. If you've been on the melancholy side most of your life and it has gotten worse with no obvious situational cause, then I would consider drug treatment my first option. But I've been to many hundreds of support group meetings (DBSA mostly - depression and bipolar support alliance) and therapy DOES work for many people. I'm just not one of them.

Once you have a diagnosis, make them break it down for you. What I mean by that is what diagnostic criteria are they relying upon to conclude that they can stuff you into one or another pigeon hole.

Just remember, diagnoses can be incorrect. Sometimes wildly off the mark. Keep that thought running on a loop until you have solid evidence that you made the right choice in doctors.

Diagnosis will determine the general class of drug they will start you on - antidepressant, traditional or atypical antipsycotic (don't let that word 'psychotic' get under your skin. It doesn't mean what you probably think it does), anxiety palliative (benzos - valium, ativan, xanax, etc.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

There are many more people on the dirt side than the grass side. They can't all be wrong.