Depressed and need to do something BIG to shake things up
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Anonymous
| I’m depressed. I’m in therapy and taking medication but I’m still depressed and have been for a while. I have this feeling that I want to do something BIG to, I don’t know, feel something different. To shake things up. Get a tattoo? Except I don’t want one. Buy a new car? Except I don’t want or need one and can’t afford it. Have a baby? I’m too old, I’m not healthy, and it’s not a fantastic idea to create life just to shake things up. But I need something. Any ideas? |
Anonymous
| Is there somewhere you have always wanted to travel to? |
Anonymous
| Take a big trip? Relocate to a new state? |
Anonymous
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Register for the army 10 miler and join a running group to train with.
You got this, op. One day at a time. ❤️ |
Anonymous
| Change your hair color. A coworker got a piercing that pretty much no one would see unless she wanted to show it off. |
Anonymous
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New haircut or color. It will always grow back. It’s dangerous to fling yourself in too many directions while depressed. Your judgment is cloudy and you can’t accurately predict the consequences.
Or enroll in a cooking class, art class, improv class. Do something new - not something drastic. |
Anonymous
| Start fostering dogs. |
Anonymous
| Alaska cruise along the inland passage |
Anonymous
| I found a trip to visit friends from an earlier time in my life (childhood, but could also be college) very fulfilling when I was feeling ennui. All I can explain is that I needed to remember who I was once. |
Anonymous
| Cut your hair short if you never have. I had my eternal somewhat-past-shoulder-length layered hairstyle cut above my ears into a longish pixie. It shook things up! |
Anonymous
| Deep plane face lift with fat transfer and rhinoplasty |
Anonymous
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These are wonderful suggestions! Please keep them coming!
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Anonymous
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get a bicycle? good way to get healthy, not super expensive, and you can go places. or maybe a cat? join a rock climbing gym. or take an active trip--adventures in good company, REI, fitpacking, etc. They all have activity ratings so you could pick something appropriately demanding.
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Anonymous
| Sign up for a 5k and do a couch to 5k training plan. Join a gym. Exercise is the best thing for depression aside from therapy and medication |
Anonymous
Correction: inside passage |