[fingers1]

When you are depressed it is so easy to sit and stew over things which just makes you feel worse. When you feel like this it is sometimes hard to get yourself motivated to just get up and do something to distract yourself
from having these intrusive thoughts.

Make a cup of tea
Go for a walk
Cook some food
Have a conversation
watch the TV

all these might help

I know its hard sometimes but don't just lay there and stew !

fingers1

[gloamingone]

When I feel depression starting slowly, I distract myself by doing my toenails, cleaning, or surfing on Amazon. Unfortunately, if depression hits hard and fast, nothing seems to help.

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[elin95]

nothing really helps for me.. so no

[Velouria]

I generally try to watch something funny, like Family Guy. However, it's not just the thoughts that pervade, it's the feelings themselves. So it doesn't really help to distract -- you can't easily distract obssessive thoughts and overwhelming feelings.

I remember an old therapist of mine once told me, when I explained how I'd obsess over things, to simply "think about something else." Like it's that easy. What a load of bull. It doesn't address the root of the problem: why one has the predilection to obsess in the first place.

[Crazy Hitch]

Thanks fingers

I thread bomb.

I have a compulsive desire to keep finding images until one makes me laugh and I can't stop the act until one has made me smile.

Here like this.

I will show you in my next two replies.

[Crazy Hitch]