Depression Forums
General => The Lounge => Topic started by: hope123 on August 22, 2011, 10:16:17 PM
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Do you have some sort of outlet for when you start finding depression building up? Or have you found a technique that has fought the horrible feelings?
My outlet is painting, although sometimes my depression will make me feel i'm not good enough, I can't paint because no one likes me. But I paint for me, although it's nice to get comments about my art from time to time, but I try to remember that I want to leave something in this life that I did, that when the horrible things entered my mind, I gave something back when I hide away for so long.
I listen to music and imagine good things, my alterego singing at the top of her voice. I also end up tidying things until they look neat or get rid of things in order to clense the space i'm in.
How about everyone else?
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You must be incredibly strong to be able to do something you enjoy when you're down, I love art and needlework but even though I'm beginning to get to grips with this recent bout of depression I still haven't been able to find the energy and motivation to start again.
Its great you have found things you can do that help you, thank you for sharing, I'm going to try to get my pastels out this evening and do some work on an unfinished painting :)
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I too have found tidying and sorting things can help - also being creative is very theraputic. My writing has taken a bit of a nosedive though :-[ it tends to come in fits and spurts... which can be very frustrating. Baking also helps - although I end up giving most of it away! xx
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I would love to see some of your work hope123 and zaf. Sorry munch I'm not a fan of reading :(
Kneading dought to make bread, the rougher you are, the berthed it tastes but I haven't been able to do it for months :(
I do try and go for a shoot in the garden, I only shoot targets or cans though, when I'm really down I don't trust my self with my rifle thoug :(
Fabricating metal things at work is relaxing for me but I get really OCD about sanding, buffing and polishing them until there perfect. I can spend hours doing it to something that no one will ever see.
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its not very good, but if I do one I think is passable to post I'll see if I can upload it to photobucket and get it on :)
Kneading bread sounds very good therapy, I only make soda bread cos I havent got the patience to wait for it to rise or once it has cant be bothered to do anything with it :-[
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I can post up my blog if you want Cornish, and I do have a facebook art page which has my all my art on there.
It is hard sometimes to concentrate, but I got to remember that it's what I love doing, it's what takes me away.
I would love to see your work Zaf! And Munch, I would love to read yours! :)
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im sure it is better than you think zaf
well ive just had a chat with my little sister whos come home for a few days and she thinks i should get facebook back. im going to do it now
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hope, i like your art, the moon one reminds me of the film, a nightmare before christmas, bloody love that film :)
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I find relaxing really really difficult, a hot bath, candles, Scentsy burner with french lavender or just breathe, and some instumental music or nature sounds :)
Also like crafting card making and digital scrapbooking but I need to take my time with that as my hands are really shaky just now x
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFySnZl2O8o
I put this song on, turn it up and close my eyes! Try it....
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A cuddle with my cat, angel, always relaxes me. I think animals are great. I couldn't of got through my depression without angel and she is helping again this time
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A cuddle with my cat, angel, always relaxes me. I think animals are great. I couldn't of got through my depression without angel and she is helping again this time
I completley agree - although I have a dog and he is a biiiig dog - very gentle and very very fluffy (Australian shepherd... we think :-\) He has been such a lifeline. If I am upset or crying he is right there beside me - and the rest of the time he just follows me around, or acts kind of like my 'gaurd'... even if I'm just hanging the washing out :P xx
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Aw your dog sounds lovely I used to be a total dog person until I got a cat. I thought cats were stuck up and unpredictable but now I am a total dog and cat lover. Love all anals really.
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animals not anals :o :o
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Hahahahaha :P Thats the kind of mistake I usually make!! Fruedian slip!
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*blush*
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Something to laugh at !thanks !
I didn't feel like doing anything today, I did take( was it your advice munchroom) to go out in the garden,then had a long walk, sat and had coffee and sarnies.Sorry keep forgetting things, /tired
Sleep well everyone
XX
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I also paint and draw to relax, although when im really low i cant do anything. Time just slips away, i love it when i get the motivation to do it. I wrote alot over the summer but since iv been feelign how i am im finding it difficult. I do a bit, iv actually got a monologue and two plays to finish but i just cant summon up the energy at the moment. Im currently doing crafts because it reminds me when i was a kid. And its absorbing, where as painting i trying to put the inside onto the canvas, crafting your just making something that doesn't really have much meaning other than to look good. Of course this is crafting in my experience, i wouldn't want to claim that other peoples crafts don't mean anything.
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I know exactly what you mean :) Before all of this I wrote, a lot.... I have 4 full length novels I have yet to do anything with and countless short stories... But writing and reading kind of went out the window :-\ Along with my memory, concentration, self belief and motivation!!
I have finally sent off a childrens story to a publisher - after much encouragement and nagging from everyone else! :P
Drawing though... I find so therapeutic! The artwork I do is very intricate and detailed (my OH says some are like some sort of OCD fingerprint!) There are a few few scans in this album: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150200471084364&l=02135f9e3b if anyone is on Facebook :)
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Thats really impressive, it would be fantastic to have a huge one on a feature wall :)
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150326642106675&set=a.10150256805196675.371085.508796674&type=3&theater
im not sure if you can access this due to my privacy settings. I love doing intricate work, This piece has taken me well over 20 hours of work, but its great as you get lost in it.
Today is a good day so i may even finish a painting i have on the go, or i could sleep some more....hmm maybe sleep and then painting
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cant open it, I'll have to sort out a facebook account soon!
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il change my account setting them you can see it
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Thanks Zaf - I am quite proud of that one *blushes* it made it onto being stuck on the fridge rather than just stuffed into a folder and forgotten about :P
I can't open it either.... probably privacy settings....
Sleep and then painting sounds like a good plan! ;)
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changed them try again x
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thats brilliant too, no wonder it took you so long :)
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I like it though the proportions are all out, i think il try another on like it with a bit more realism. heres my portfolio of other work. Though i don't like a lot of the work here, some of its really amateurish, but some were done a few years ago and iv developed my skills alot more since, especially with painting. Im VERY critical of my own work unfortunately.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.392456186674.205751.508796674&type=1
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Wows! Thankyou for sharing, you are a very talented lady!! I think my favourite is the unfinished doodle - why are you not happy with it?
Your profile pic is very cool also :P Is that you? x
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thank you. I dont like them because im very critical and a complete perfectionist, hence one of the reasons im prone to depression.
;D the profile pic isnt me, although id love to own an outfit like that. I suppose i do look a bit similer. il make a picture on my profile public if you want to see my face but its not that interesting, i dont own any antique guns unfortunately.
Thank you all for your compliments xx ^&^
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still cant get in, I definitely need to sort a facebook account soon!
I think we are all often critical of the things we do, I know I am
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thank you. I dont like them because im very critical and a complete perfectionist, hence one of the reasons im prone to depression.
;D the profile pic isnt me, although id love to own an outfit like that. I suppose i do look a bit similer. il make a picture on my profile public if you want to see my face but its not that interesting, i dont own any antique guns unfortunately.
Thank you all for your compliments xx ^&^
You DO look similar! And very pretty :) Antique guns are very cool - I'm very into steampunk and things quite... apocalyptic ::) (the book I really want to be able to write is set after a nuclear attack on America.... yeah, I have a pretty dark mind! :P) I'm going to a faerie fayre in a couple of weeks with a friend who is quite into faeries and stuff and i'm trying to make a steampunk faerie costume...
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Wow!! sounds great :) my mother is really into fairy's, i like them to but my mum has them everywhere.
i have a very dark mind also, most of my plays unfortunately have aspects of death in them , but they arnt depressing i stress to add.
Im working on two at the moment, one is about a man fixing a hole in a house, the hole just gets bigger despite his trying to fix it, and the person in the house is just static who he talks to as though he can understand. Its a bit complicated but once its fully written itl make sense. The other one is about two men cutting a tree down in the forest, but they get the saw stuck, and they talk about how stuck in life they are, with ghostly happenings in the forest.
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lovely pic Overcast, pretty lady.
Take care and have a good day
XX
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wow your work is awesome, im mesmerized by that picture and ive spent a while looking at it and i cant take my eyes off it.
also hmm dunno how to really word this but uhhh dont take this the wrong way, i can be pretty awkward with words, when u say your profile pic isn't interesting i agree but only as i started thinking about what i would class as an interesting face but it is rather pretty :) , im having a voice telling me to glue things to my face to make it more interesting, then another arguing with it that i will stand out more and then i will get locked up for being crazy. hmm i must be boring if the voices in my head aren't talking to me any more and there arguing with each other haha, im just glad i have a weird sense of humor and can laugh at my self on a few rare occasions
hmmm i got distracted and have no idea what i was going to post now, basically just ignore that middle but it was a strange ramble that doesn't seem to make any sense at all to me now and i really hope your not offended by it
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basically i was trying to say awesome pic and loverly photo of you. how come i can think of a one sentance answer once ive just talked a load of crap for ages ::)
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Hi Cornish
You made me smile again, your writing and words are great, you say what I can't put into words.
Not crap !!
HUGS
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I'm another one who writes. I have a short autobiography and poems on lulu.com, am writing another non fiction book and have started a novel. I also have written stuff that is personal and have chucked it later as I haven't wanted anybody to read that.
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What talented people there are in here :)
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Haha you did indeed make me smile Cornish. Glueing things to my face sounds quite fun....especially if it involved a monocle.
Thankyou for all your lovely comments :D x
I think creative people do have a tendancy to suffer from depression, im sure its the frustation of having a talent but not being able to use it, or not being able to adequately express whats in your minds eye. But i am makign a rather brush stroaking statement, i dont know if theres any truth in it.
Cornish im running off a few signed copies of the picture posted as its now complete. Would you like me to send you one? I know how low we all get and today im having such a good day i want to share this feeling. Il post up the canvas im doing when iv finished it on the new forum.
Big hugs to everyone ^&^
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oh good im glad i didn't offend you and its nice to know that i make people smile. sounds like a good idea to me, ive looked at that steam punk stuff that munch was talking about n it looks pretty cool
oh wow thats a wonderful offer ummm again im stuck for words thanks but i couldn't, i would end up stuck staring at it all the time :P
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lol, well your more than welcome to one if you would like it, im only going to make five offical copies.
Il keep one for whoever would like one from the site.
Have a good night everyonen x O0
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i really do like it and ive looked at a few other pieces of your art and think there wonderful.
well thank you very much for the offer but i think you offering it to some one else from here is better, i find it really hard to accept anything from anyone and well there are other reasons that dont even make sense, paranoia, voices and other factors just freak me out a bit too much when some one does anything kind for me i also feel like theres no way i can ever repay people for what they do for me.
a few members on here have done a lot to help me, especially munchroom, she just awesome and a huge help but ice always struggled to accept help let alone anything else from anyone. one day she had me in tears but in a good way as i was shocked by the kindness she had for some one that was basically a stranger, i was actually pretty angry with my self as i couldnt accept her help even though i really needed it and it was something she found hard to do.
she restored my faith in humanity
you have a good night too my dear