How do you find strength?

[Bigfoot]

I try to put my problems into perspective. Usually our problems are less important than we suppose them to be. If that doesn't work (or if I am just flat-out depressed for no particular reason -- which happens to me sometimes) then I give myself some time to feel what I have to feel. Music, reading, or just sleeping can help. I avoid making any important decisions while in that frame of mind.

 

[Syterion]

I remember one of my tenets : Always have faith in yourself.

 

[sysyphus]

Life expereince, knowing that there are ups and downs, so when I am down, I know up will come along, and usually sooner than it may seem.

This is also great advice:

I try to put my problems into perspective. Usually our problems are less important than we suppose them to be. If that doesn't work (or if I am just flat-out depressed for no particular reason -- which happens to me sometimes) then I give myself some time to feel what I have to feel. Music, reading, or just sleeping can help. I avoid making any important decisions while in that frame of mind.

 

[Fetus4188]

Music, and I may even write about it if I really get pushed.

 

[jamiethearcher]

I think of the sacrifices my maternal Grandparents (italian immigrants) made so that my parents, and in turn, myself, could lead a better life.

 

[Mathilda]

Depends on what's happened.
On small scale things (like an idiot manager with unreasonable and contradicting demands combined with personal attacks) talking to people, crying, sleeping, taking a walk, looking at nature can help.
Sometimes it's as simple as realising that you don't ahave a choiche but to carry on.

On major things, like an end of a long relationship, when you feel you've lost everything focus on who you are, find the things you haven't lost, and you'll find the strength from within.

Other things that have helped me were reading poetry (good to read how miserable other people have felt) and playing with small children (something about their innosence that I find purifying).

 

[shortguy]

Where do I find strength? I don't really know. I just kinda keep on keepin' on. It's worked so far.

 

[general_kill]

I think that meditation is a good way to find inner strength. I use meditation to correct my faults. For example, I am probably one of the biggest procrastinator in the world. So what I began doing was when I found myself getting off track, I'll turn off the radio and lights in my room and sit there and meditate. I will count to one hundred and visualize every number. Each time I visualize a number, I tell myself to focus. It actually requires a lot of commitment to count all the way to 100 and by the time I'm done, I will be able to overcome my need to procrastinate.

I can use this to correct other behaviors as well. For example, I was very nervous and anxious about one of the test I took. I sat down and openly confessed why I was feeling those emotions and by the time I was done, I felt truly free. It inspired me to study harder next time so that I don't have to worry about asking myself the what ifs.

 

[Shaihulud]

Life expereince, knowing that there are ups and downs, so when I am down, I know up will come along, and usually sooner than it may seem.

Life is never so dark that it can't get darker . What motivates me is that its most possible that it can only get worse, I have to keep going just to stay in the same spot.

 

[Dame Edna]

Steroids and Viagra do the job for me and if that fails hysterical laughter.

 

[silver 2039]

There's not much that gets me down or depressed I'm flexible and can adapt to a chnaged situation.

 

[Sidhe]

Friends and family are nice but for me it's a thin core of Self confidence that has been honed sharpened and perfected over the last 30 years so it now resembles a tiny point of pure self determination something like that. I rely on me to keep me sane and give me strength, after all who else is going to help God?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I will myself to not care. I disconnect my feelings from my higher mental functions and go into battle-mode.

 

[Sidhe]

I will myself to not care. I disconnect my feelings from my higher mental functions and go into battle-mode.

Denial is not menatlly healthy; neither I would say is battle mode physically healthy or condusive to health

 

[Bozo Erectus]

That does not compute

 

[Sidhe]

So Mr Erectus when did you begin to have zeese feelings of disconectedness from reality, you say you go into a mode like a robot, why is ziss? Are you trying to ignore your problems in ze hope they will go away? Do you think because ze problems are divorced from you you somehow solve zeese problems, or that denial of them means you can forget zem?

Hmm ya ya very interesting.

Tell me about your childhood

 

[Mirc]

Playing some music.

 

[HawkeyeGS]

I just remember that it is a good thing if you can go through something and not fold. There is worse stuff going on all over the world than your problem. Help someone else.

Remember we are who we are because of what happens to us.

 

[BCLG100]

I find music helps me quite a bit, also my girlfriend and friends as well.

 

[Sidhe]

I find music helps me quite a bit, also my girlfriend and friends as well.

Music, Listen to radiohead, five minutes later you realise that nothing could be as bad as being Thom York, and then your happy.

Seriously listening to depressing music when your unhappy is strangely comforting.

Music soothes the savage beast - William Shakespeare