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I realize I'm a bit of an atypical example of this, but, if I happen to get upset around the time when I'd be between doses of my meds (which I take for my ADHD, for anyone unaware), then taking my next dose definitely helps me get into that "work off the sad" mindset. O_OI don't get how anyone can work when angry, sad etc.
Shit like that not only distracts me, but saps any motivation or willingness to do stuff. :/
I'm able to divert my focus to being productive and away from sad thoughts, I feel slightly perkier and more motivated in general, and I'm able to get into a good work-groove and get stuff done -- which always makes me happy! -- so, whenever things happen to work out that way, I'm always a lot happier once I've done all that and gotten a lot of stuff done. I usually don't even care about whatever I was upset about before. XD
Granted, I'm realizing now that it sounds kind of fucked up to say "I take drugs to make the sad go away", but, ehhh... ^^"
All that being said, though, if I didn't have that (or if the timing just doesn't work out right for that to be a possibility)?, then yeah, I'm right there with you. XD There's no way I'd have the motivation or willingness to do stuff.
Generally all I can do to make myself feel better in that case is to just A) let myself be sad for a while and get some of the emotions out, and then B) find some low-mental-effort thing to distract myself with. Tumblr and Youtube often work well for this. Eventually I find that I've wasted enough time there and I suddenly don't really care about whatever was bothering me before. :P
Edit: ALSO, at the peak of being upset, I have a tendency to leave mini-rants about it on my user profile here on Iwaku and sometimes even on my OOC threads... I used to feel really bad about it, sort of wanting to be comforted but also being terrified of being seen as an attention whore, but now I'm starting to realize that tossing my problems out there in a sort of casual way like that is just... a coping mechanism, and it's really not that bad. o_o
It's actually why I had my user title set to "I'm a Loser" for a while. I originally put it there because, yeah, I was sort of in a self-loathing mood at the time... but, the longer I had it there, the better I felt. o_o Being able to wear a self-depreciating title as if it was a badge that I was proud of made me feel weirdly ok with all of it, until I eventually decided I didn't need it anymore because I no longer felt that way about myself. It's... strange. But it works for me so I'm going to stop feeling bad about it. ^^