#depression hacks

[etherealtidesandneonshadows]

Tips for writing with mental illness:

Pinterest is a legitimate way to become inspired or to research your story. One of my WIPs is partially from finding aesthetics I wanted to write about.

Bullet points and even asking yourself questions in the document is fine. Ex: "Do I want X to climb up the cliff or try to go get help?"

Writing anything, even if it's not related to your WIP, is fine. It's momentum.

Creating playlists is also a good source of inspiration and brainstorming. A lot of plot points from my current WIP were brainstormed during songs that inspired my creative juices.

[this-possum-cries]

[justmossyall]

depression hacks masterpost

these are things that will help with mental illness that aren't 'go outside, drink water, and everything will be fine!!!1!!!11!1!11!' those are good fs but they don't work on their own. these will actually help in one way or another :)

hell yeah let's go

open your windows. the fresh air and sunlight will do you good and it takes like 5 seconds.

go buy some plants, there are like a gazillion that are next to impossible to kill. and don't come at me with 'ohhh I'll probably find a way hahaha" NO. the plants will be so helpful! they produce oxygen, bring nature indoors which psychologically improves your mental state, and they're just nice to look at! you can name them! sculpt and/or paint little pots for them!

STOP LISTENING TO SAD MUSIC. I cannot stress this enough. it just makes things worse. please stop. make a playlist of all your favorite stupid, happy, pump-up songs and listen to them all the time until they get annoying. then repeat!

acquire a gazillion stuffed animals. so much serotonin for such a small price

get a water bottle and put fun stickers on it, and designate that water bottle to be only for water. nothing else goes in it. that way you can drink out of it for kind of a long time before needing to wash it. keep it filled with water and actually drink out of it. drink as much water as you can, all the time.

chew gum! idk why but it works bro. especially watermelon.

hug people and ask people to hug you. hugs are so amazing it's like pure happiness but with the added perk of Deep Pressure. it can be from your friends, family, s/o, whoever.

make sure there's a lot of light in your room. not good to wallow in darkness. put up fairy lights, get fun lamps, light candles, keep your blinds open, etc.

dress like how you want to feel. be colorful, fun, and comfortable. don't wear hoodies, sweatpants and ratty old shoes, I know it's appealing but it's just going to keep you in that depressed state. I like to wear dresses, colorful jeans, graphic tees from 5-Below, combat boots, and lots of funky earrings. (seriously 5-Below is a lifesaver for literally anything!!!) you can get a lot of these things for super cheap - I got a 20 pack of fun earrings like duckies, mushrooms, mini water bottles, etc. for like $11, and a lot of my colorful jeans are like 6 bucks at the thrift store. whatever your style is or whatever you want it to be, work to make that happen. because getting dressed is one of the simplest things you'll do in a day, so why not make the most of it?

doodle. it's fun and simple, and it'll give your hands something to do other than pick at your skin if you do that kind of stuff (see below).

on a similar note, make art!!!!! it doesn't have to be good!!!!!! just make art all the time, as often as you can. write crappy fanfiction. make friendship bracelets. sculpt a funky lil cat. draw your comfort characters. art is so healing and it will do wonders for you. even just like run your hands through a giant bag of beads like I do :P

get fidgets and bring them everywhere with you. this is more of an anxiety/stimming thing for me but I pick at my fingers, lips, pimples, eyebrows, etc., and it hurts a lot and will probably leave scars. fidgets are just amazing. I'm partial to tangles and infinity cubes :) gum and chewelry are good for this as well (for when I bite my fingers/clothes or chew the skin off my lips)

if you find yourself with a whole day with nothing to do and you don't have the energy to get up and do anything, go to the park. bring a blanket, some snacks, and headphones, and just lay there and listen to music. sleep. watch youtube. literally anything you would normally do when you don't have energy, except it's outside in the sun and grass and nature around other people who are doing the same thing! 10/10

get a pet if you can. even just fish, but really a fluffy, snuggly animal is probably best such as a dog or cat. OH MY GOD THEY HELP SO MUCH. ANIMALS ARE MAGIC. I don't think I've ever been sad while holding or petting my grandma's dog. (our family doesn't have one right now lol)

spray perfume/body spray on you. faster and easier than deodorant and it usually smells better

if you're gonna scroll, scroll pinterest. honestly, it's probably best to get rid of things like tiktok and snapchat, but that's kinda unrealistic for most people so I get it <3 pinterest is probably gonna be better than other social media cause it's more creative?? if you know what I mean?? and usually it's reading things and not mindlessly watching videos

if you don't have the energy to do stuff with your hair, put it up in a bun! fast simple and easy. takes like 5 seconds, even for someone with super thick curly hair like me. (or cut it short! but most of us aren't brave enough to do that lol)

eat fruit. sweet and comforting, but healthy!! so much better for you than junk food, and honestly it tastes better most of the time too. I recommend strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, watermelon, and cantaloupe. easy to take with you on the go and sooooo good <333

play calming video games such as animal crossing, minecraft, stardew valley, cats with soup (if you're into mobile games), etc. puzzle games are good too! if you want something more combat-y, I would recommend the zelda games or forager. still chill and mellow but has more combat and story/lore

garden if you can. I know this kind of ties in with having plants in your room, but if you're able and you have the energy, keep a flower and/or vegetable garden. there's something so beautiful in putting your hands in the warm dirt, smelling your freshly-planted flowers, eating sun-infused vegetables that taste infinitely better than store-bought. it's so nice, but I know it's not for everyone so don't worry about it if you don't get around to it <3

sleep in the bus/car on the way to school if you're tired. not a perfect solution but better than falling asleep in class

inhale through your nose, not your mouth. it's better for your lungs and you'll get better air quality that way. it also helps calm you better than mouth breathing, and you can't exactly smell the fresh air through your mouth :P

read. sit down and read a book. carry one with you wherever you go. spend a weekend day in the library with a huge stack of books just reading. it's so calming and helps stimulate your brain. doesn't matter what you read as long as it's making you happy :)

surround yourself with color, not dark drab colors. hang up art and posters on your walls, get bright blankets and pillows, lay out a tiny lil carpet, make bead curtains and string them up on your curtain rod, set out little figurines/sculptures around your room. put color and life everywhere around you, and that will start to seep into your soul.

tea is always good. or if you don't like tea, hot water with lemon juice and honey. basically the same :)

if you ever just don't want to do something, like you just absolutely don't want to get up and do _ thing, think about future you. would they be like "bro thanks so much you really helped me out there" if you did the thing? if yes, then do it, no matter how impossible it seems. you'll thank yourself later.

a statement that is near and dear to my heart: if you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. if you feel like you hate everyone, eat. if you feel like you hate yourself, shower.

NO MORE SU!C!DE JOKES. ever. the end! replace "i'm literally gonna kms" jokes or anything along those lines with "i'm literally gonna flop to the floor" or "i'm literally gonna go ham bananas on this place" or whatever wild bullshit pops into your brain.

watch studio ghibli movies. the most amazing things to ever exist. I have never felt sad while watching a ghibli movie. they are basically the definition of peace.

take a bubble bath!!!!! :D

making your bed helps for some reason??? why, I have no idea. but it does bro

get excited about things. smile when you hear your favorite song. hug your amazon package when it comes in. count down the days until a holiday. laugh with joy when you have an amazing day. it makes things so much better.

an important addition: bring snacks everywhere

that's all for now, lmk if you have anything else to add!!! love you guys, I promise it gets better <3

[hotgirlsurvival]

[elf-indulgent]

before enjoying cooking: i'm locked into an endless cycle of cooking and eating food every day of my life :/

after tricking myself into enjoying cooking: i have so many more days of cooking and eating food in my life :D

[autistic-fairy]

How to wash your face with depression or just cuz you don't like doing it.

There was a poll about skin care going around and a lot of people were saying they don't wash their face. I was surprised by this then remembered I do it differently. Here's how

MICELLER WATER

GOD this stuff is a MIRACLE. No more dripping water down your arms and getting all wet. Maybe you get soap in your eyes.

Just take a cotton pad, drip some micellar on it and wipe your face. DONE. QUICK. NO MESS.

NOW GO AND WIPE THAT OIL OFF YOUR SKIN (if you want ig)

[winkcore]

depression hacks that help me:

- take a freezing cold shower for longer than comfortable

- drink coffee

- watch stand up comedy

- (i will continue to add when i have more tips)

[squidkid15]

lifetimes so long past they don't even seem like mine anymore

[writethatdown]

if you are someone who struggles with motivating yourself to attend to your chores, take care of yourself, or feel drained by the thought of hoarding so much responsibilities, i want to share a tip.

if you happen to be standing for some reason, try to complete all tasks that you usually do up standing. so for me, once i am on my feet, i do a sequence of activities like brushing my teeth, washing my face, ironing my clothes, brushing my hair, organizing my stuff for college, making my bed etc. without taking any break and i am able stack around 5 tasks comfortably. also, once the momentum is built, it gets easier!

similarly, if i am at my desk, sitting, i usually have my laptop there and always some work that needs to get done for college, admin or miscellaneous purposes. i try to do as much as i can.

this is particularly helpful for me because i am a big bedrot. especially when i am in pain or uncomfortable in general.

i just thought maybe it will help someone out there. this same hack might go in vain for me in a few weeks lol and i am just always figuring it out to push myself to be a functioning adult.

anyways, i hope u r taking care ♡

[call-me-liquid]

That's not what you fucking said though, is it Lily? If you're going to try to backpedal, you could at least delete the other fucking post.

"Those filthy disgusting druggies are a blight on society and they're horrible and they smell bad . . . But I guess they shouldn't be brutalized by the police or whatever."

First of all, it's clear by your post you don't seem to understand the difference between decriminalization and legalization. Second, it's clear from your enthusiasm to hop on the opportunity to talk shit you don't give a flying fuck about, nor do you support the rehabilitation and treatment of drug use for what it is: a symptom of greater mental health issues.

It's absolutely ghoulish and abhorrent for you to try to use your uncle's death and sister's hardships to lampshade your bullshit here Lily-- but I suppose that's not new behavior for you.

Your uncle was using medical grade cannabis-- which has been officially legal nation wide for YEARS and functionally legal here, if not officially, for even longer. Greencards were not hard to obtain. In BC and Ottowa they wouldn't even check if you had one. Weed did not kill your fucking uncle. Weed happens to be one of the few mind-altering substances that has NEVER been linked to anyone's direct cause of death. It is BY NO MEANS HARMLESS, and can have a seriously negative effect on certain people with other health issues or mental illnesses, however. I don't believe for a second you actually think weed is what caused your uncle's death or Courtney's drug issues. You're just using the general stigma around drug addiction and the profound damage the War On Drugs has done to the west.

Let it not go unacknowledged that this is yet ANOTHER example of how blatantly Lily couldn't care less about the marginalized communities she uses as a bludgeon to obfuscate criticism. No community has been more systemically disenfranchised in Canada by the stigma around addiction more than the First Nations community. Almost every time, the government makes excuses not to offer aid or relief in indigenous populations because "they will just use the funds to buy more drugs." In my province, entire reservations have been left WITHOUT CLEAN DRINKING WATER. Most of the homeless population in my city are First Nations people who have had their lives devastated by addiction. NIMBYs refuse to let safe-injection or other harm reduction clinics open near their homes and buisness, then endlessly bitch about the homeless people they left with no where to go loitering around their properties because they have nowhere to go. Certain months get so cold that freezing to death isn't an uncommon occurrence. The dead body of a homeless person was discovered in the dumpster of my middle school when I was a kid-- what a formative childhood memory that was.

Let us not forget how common drug abuse problems are in the LGBTQ+ community and among victims of SA. I went into extensive detail about my own experience in this post:

So quite this weenie pissbaby behavior. Quite this Motte-and-bailey J.K. Rowling mealy-mouthed bullshit.

You're really not even very good at disguising your own bigotry sweaty.

Edit: Courtney wanted it clarified she used drugs, but was never an addict. Lily's pedaled that line so much I never even thought to check with Courtney if it was true.

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[bigmegamindbrain]

hot girls keep baby wipes in their room in case they get depressed again

[articabyss77]

Take your meds with a shot glass, more fun that way.

I struggle with my mental health and found this makes taking my meds less depressing and a little fun to do, plus helps me remember, too. Love ya🖤

[thatswhatsushesaid]

I've worn the same t-shirt, I haven't washed my hair

But all of that's fine when I don't go outside 'cause lately I'm not fond of the light

And I colored in all of the lenses on my glasses

And stay in bed because it's better when I'm fast asleep

In my dreams, no one believes what they see

- Pink (Freak) by Elliot Lee