What Do You Do When It's Really Bad?

hanginginthewire

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Go for a walk? How many of you are on medication? I don't mean to be dramatic but I can't continue like this. How do you guys snap out of it when it's all too much?
 

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Go for a walk? How many of you are on medication? I don't mean to be dramatic but I can't continue like this. How do you guys snap out of it when it's all too much?

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until fall into sleep
 

CopeForLife

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This. Or playing videogames until my eyes are bleeding.

one of pros (or cons) of having macbook you cannot play games :p
 

SmoothSailing

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Get a load of munch, roll up a joint, throw on some cartoons and forget about existence.

That's how I got through 3 years of college as a virgin anyway.
 

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Go for a walk? How many of you are on medication? I don't mean to be dramatic but I can't continue like this. How do you guys snap out of it when it's all too much?

be strong:cool::cool:

Trust me when you get older you will be stronger, much stronger than ever before!!

I never want to be 25 years old again. ( Ok, ok i want the body of a 25 years old man :D)

But I never want to be in my head again 25.

Other solution :

Alcohol ;)
 

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I put on some music and fantasise that I'm living a different (better) life. It works really well until I come back to reality and my problems.

Yes I will often fantasize. Usually when I'm doing something mindless like driving. A bit embarrassing, never would admit it irl. I will play out different scenarios, usually me being the hero in some horrifyingly tragic situation where I become full of rage and violently sort the situation out. I used to fantasize about getting hot girls, now it kind of just makes me feel depressed tbh. I do often fantasize about winning big in the bookies or the lotto, telling all my friends and travelling the world. Probably why I gamble so much lol.

Once even fantasized about discovering the cure to balding, saving my hair, helping out all my bald bro's and becoming rich.

This is actually, amazingly, the first time I've confronted the fact that I fantasize so much. It's actually such a cope lol. Absolutely no logical advantage to it beside coping.
 

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you NEED something, a hobby, sport, musical instrument, work to CONSTANTLY take your mind off it and remind you, you are much, much more as your appearance (as cliche as that sounds).

Last week there was a sewing machine on sale. I bought it and watched some youtube videos to learn.

I am going to invest in a cello soon, something I've always wanted.

There is just nothing we can do man. Attempt whatever treatments you feel comfortable with, hopefully they work for you. Then, do whatever you can to take your mind off it.

At the end of the day, no one gives a f*** but you. You may not get women, you may be mocked occassionally, but that's it. After that, everyone forgets except for yourself.
 

resu

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You register on hairlosstalk and moan all day in the cope section. Seriously though, fantasizing is very dangerous, it's like a drug, took a lot of effort to stop doing it. I just walk, got it from watching Midnight Express.
 

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What keeps me sane is going to the gym.

Even then, I have regular breakdowns where I hide from the world for a week or so, buying myself binge (re)watching TV series. It's a drug which I use to escape this world.
 

buckthorn

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What the hell can ya do with a sewing machine?

quiet my love, you shall find out soon enough.... when your eyes are sewn shut and you have 24 hrs to make it out of my crawl space alive!!!! (seriously though, just making drapes for my house, pillow covers for my camper, fixing dog beds, etc...)
 

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quiet my love, you shall find out soon enough.... when your eyes are sewn shut and you have 24 hrs to make it out of my crawl space alive!!!! (seriously though, just making drapes for my house, pillow covers for my camper, fixing dog beds, etc...)


It puts the lotion in the basket

Yeah that dude had a sewing machine too.
 

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What keeps me sane is going to the gym.

Even then, I have regular breakdowns where I hide from the world for a week or so, buying myself binge (re)watching TV series. It's a drug which I use to escape this world.

I look forward to rejoining the gym soon, a few more weeks and I should be fully recovered from surgery.

I take cooking classes and practice the hobby. I tried a different pie crust recipe afterward and it was great. I had a guest visiting the city and made her baked salmon and brussel sprouts, she loved it. I recently made mango-avocado salad for the first time, that's a really clever mix. I also recently made chocolate-chia seed pudding for the first time, also a clever combination, tastes great and has a terrific consistency.

I'm now keeping up with iZombie, Supergirl, The Originals, and Grey's Anatomy. I recently rewatched The Wire. I've been watching a lot of world war II documentaries in the past year. I watch hockey games sometimes. I do feel like starting a major series soon but I'm not sure what. I hear that "Legion" is good.

I have a job where I research fundamental properties of the Galaxy. I get paid to think. My job is one of well over 100 people applied for. It's funded by private philanthropy so even Trump's budget can't eliminate it. In the past few weeks I've reviewed a major paper on the inner Galaxy, I was approached by multiple people at a nearby conference and was asked to travel to both France and the UK, I'm writing a review paper, a proposal for Hubble Telescope time, and collecting some multi-coloured images of important stars to analyze them.

I managed to get in (finally) with a very talented therapist, and have just started seeing her. She said one of my qualities is that I'm exceptionally considerate. She's very good at her job actually. In our second meeting I almost burst into tears in her office. I don't think anybody's ever had that effect on me, and I've seen a lot of therapists.

But mostly I'm pretty miserable. I want to share my time someone. I want to be able to explore the restaurants I read about in travel guides with someone. I read a list today of the top-24 places to eat at in my city and I have no one to try those restaurants with. I want to have someone to go to national parks with, to take day trips to New York and Washington DC with. But I can't. 100% of women say no. There's always an excuse. Let's be honest, they always have a better-looking guy available.

I went to an orthodontist recently and have 1.5 years of invisalign to look forward to. I've lost 70 lbs and have about 10 more pounds to lose before reaching my dream weight. I lather a complex cocktail of poorly-researched chemicals on my genetically inferior hair every morning. And it probably won't matter. There is always a better looking guy available.
 
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