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I just thought about this and I thought it would be interesting to find out how everybody copes with their life. Like, what do you do to deal with the difficuties in your life??

After a long time of avoiding the issue, I started going to counseling about a month and a half ago. I was diagnosed with depression and social anxiety, and I take celexa for it, which is a type of anti-depressant. The therapy and the medication has worked wonders for me and I feel so much better than I have in the longest time. And I sleep at night too. It's great.

Ok, everybody else share

I don't think I've really mastered the art of coping with life. It's just become so hard that I take things and push them aside, until there is no room and I end up crying my eyes out. Sure, I feel better, but it doesn't really solve anything, I suppose. I always feel like I'm taking on the world alone, but I've learned to suck it up and just take it. I don't like letting people know how I feel because I don't like attention.
I go through the same cycle all the time.

I cope with life by going to school everyday where i have to endure my film studies prof literaly talking <i>with his ass!</i>

so much noise, but nothing ever gets said.

Anyways, this keeps me from having <i>too much fun</i> and thus establishes a sort of balance. Yanno, because the sweet is not as sweet without the sour.

You know......my life rules, I honestly don't have any strong complaints, so I guess there isn't a great deal I have to deal with.

When me and my fiance get into arguments.......we try to talk things out but we usually shout for a bit first but things wind up better pretty fast between us.

School gets stressful.....but I treat the stressings by playing golf, video games, chatting with you wonderful people, so on and so fourth.

Beer......beer helps too.

i have a naturally upbeat personality.

Coke and sleep.

I try and do things with my really good friends as much as I can. Music helps a hell of a lot too..

I've found that my gas (seriously) creates much humor between myself and my close friends...

So Bethany........develop a potent strain of alcohol related anal-breezing, and you'll make people laugh.

Ohhh, I forgot music. That was totally lame of me.

I read. Get lost in a world other than my own, where people's problems are so much worse as to put my own problems in some sort of perspective.

I play guitar. Prentend I'm in front of a huge crowd, wowing everyone. Concentrate on getting things right in the song I'm playing. If I can get things right there, maybe I can do things right in life.

I listen to music. Get lost in the flow. Get lost in the beat. Use the lyrics to reflect on life.

I meditate. Sit in the dark, breathe deep and let my mind take me where it will. Don't dwell on thoughts. Let a thought come, and let it just as easily go. Sit outside. See a bird. Watch it, and let it go.

I talk to online friends. Distance myself, while really bringing myself closer to these people than most people in my "real" life.

I would have to add reading as well. Its becoming easier and easier to get lost in a good book these days.

And, of course, music.

I deal with things the same way as Caitlin. I suck at dealing with things so i try to avoid it as much as possible and then when i finally can't take it any more I just cry. I find crying helps me feel better but it really doesn't solve anything. or sometimes i'll just start laughing for no reason, that helps a little. That's what I’ve been trying to do lately, when I feel like I want to cry I'll think of something that makes me laugh and just laugh, but of course that doesn't always work and i end up crying anyways.

Cass wrote:Coke and sleep.

whoa way to be a druggie

I'm the same way. I laugh, or get really giddy, when I actually want to cry my eyes out.When I try to laugh instead, I always end up crying anyways, as well.

I have a really good life right now. Like Neil, i have no real strong complaints. But when things do get tough, there are a few things that i despretely can't live without. I need my boyfriend, he somehow can make everything better no matter what it is. Music too, i need this to live. My other circle of close friends...altho lots of them have their own problems. Oh, and I've been getting back to reading a lot. Books are great to get lost in.

i think that's my problem, i don't really have anyone in my life who is always there for me. ever since i broke up with my ex-b/f last year it's been really hard for me to rely on myself, cause for two years he was always there so i was really dependent on him. Which was not a good thing, i'm trying really hard to learn to depend on myself but that's not working to well. And I don't want to be dependent on anyone again but I would like someone who is there for me when I'm not feeling so great to just tell me everything is going to be ok, that's all.

Aww, that sucks. I'm really way too dependent on my bf, I dont know what I would do if i didnt have him there. But for now, he's here and I'm happy.

Hope you find someone soon, Maria.

whoa way to be a druggie

Coca Cola, Bethany!

I take celexa too. YAY drugs.

I am having a hard time trying to keep my head out of the water myself. I've lost who I really am, and find myself from time to time.. but really I don't konw anymore. I try to do things i want to do, but have so little time for them these days, I find I can't balance the happy out with the sad. I just lose myself for a while, or drink alot of coke or something, become hyper and put on a happy face so people can't see the real me. Anyone else do that?

I dunno...

yay drugs!!! *high fives fras*