Feeling down

[Jazzy]

What is the best thing a friend can do to help you when you are feeling down?

 

[Nebulous]

Take me to go see a movie.

 

[TommyTooter]

give them a long, tight hug and sing them a song. i was 17 when this one came out in 1971 in a squeeze with a girl from another school a few years behind me i met through the temple youth group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHhjKQ8L_iU

 

[Nebulous]

give them a long, tight hug and sing them a song.

If one of my friends did that for me, it would probably creep me out more than anything else.

 

[~KAGE-008]

give them a long, tight hug and sing them a song.

That'd comfort me a lot. Seriously.

 

[LegendHidden]

I like when my friends make me laugh when I'm feeling down.

 

[Dee]

I like when my friends make me laugh when I'm feeling down.

This. I always appreciate a good, genuine laugh, especially when I'm sad or not feeling good.

 

[Raven]

Leave me alone.

 

[~KAGE-008]

Leave me alone.

This won't work on me though. Being lonely is a curse due to my condition.

 

[Raven]

For me it's the best thing, when I am down, I want to be alone with my thoughts, I will eventually bring myself back up. People and fuss irritate and anger me at such times.

 

[TommyTooter]

I like when my friends make me laugh when I'm feeling down.

there are few things more gratifying to me as a performing artist than when somebody who is obviously in a bad way about something smiles, gets a case of chicken wings and happy feat or busts out laughing. playing happy birthday for a group of folks is always fun and it's always sweet to play for a couple of people cooing at each other.

too gross though and they're a turn off. i really get upset when people start twerking in my face, especially if they walk off without tipping me. i don't like playing careless whisper for nothing either.

i never met robin williams, but i had met some of the other dead comedians and i know that they're all like me because the clown is a special breed. we project the best we can muster of ourselves to others to ignore our own inner turmoil and feed off all the positive energy we get in return. thank you all for digging my writing. it only makes it better every time i respond to somebody. :inlove:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVQGESUTo

 

[TommyTooter]

Leave me alone.

This won't work on me though. Being lonely is a curse due to my condition.

i can relate to that. this too:

For me it's the best thing, when I am down, I want to be alone with my thoughts, I will eventually bring myself back up. People and fuss irritate and anger me at such times.

we have to be content inside ourselves first and that's a lot of work for me because of my own condition. my rabbi taught that we were made imperfect intentionally so that our spirits could grow from how we responded to life's ups and downs.

everybody and everything is good for something and i've found the easiest way to stay content is to go with the flow seeking things and people that make me feel good and avoiding things and people that make me feel bad. it's worked pretty well so far and i've met a lot of people in the indie music and arts world who approach life the same way. don't empower anything that's getting you down.

 

[DrLeftover]

Lord knows I've had my fair share of weeks, possibly even months, of absolutely Magnificent depressions.

And, one thing that did help, was being able to pull myself together to do something constructive. That helped other people. One time not long after my first wife died, I got volunteered to help with a food drive for a local charity.

I got through it.

But, now, looking back.

There were times when I think I was better of feeling "down" because, there were long stretches when I didn't feel anything.

Since then, I've gotten passed that, and am, all things considered, having a pretty good time.

Thank you.

And, Tooter.... thank you, Ol' Blue Eyes did a pretty good version of that one.

 

[TommyTooter]

Lord knows I've had my fair share of weeks, possibly even months, of absolutely Magnificent depressions.

But, now, looking back.

There were times when I think I was better of feeling "down" because, there were long stretches when I didn't feel anything.

Since then, I've gotten passed that, and am, all things considered, having a pretty good time.

Thank you.

And, Tooter.... thank you, Ol' Blue Eyes did a pretty good version of that one.

my pleasure, doc. none of the other artists thrilled me and none of the different tracks by judy collins grabbed me either, so i went with a sure thing and the chairman of the board. barbara streisand is on the boycott list because of israel.

 

[DrLeftover]

Lord knows I've had my fair share of weeks, possibly even months, of absolutely Magnificent depressions.

But, now, looking back.

There were times when I think I was better of feeling "down" because, there were long stretches when I didn't feel anything.

Since then, I've gotten passed that, and am, all things considered, having a pretty good time.

Thank you.

And, Tooter.... thank you, Ol' Blue Eyes did a pretty good version of that one.

my pleasure, doc. none of the other artists thrilled me and none of the different tracks by judy collins grabbed me either, so i went with a sure thing and the chairman of the board. barbara streisand is on the boycott list because of israel.

Streisand has more going 'for' her than just that. But OK.

Whenever I know a good friend of mine, and I mean a "GOOD" friend (which I can count on one hand), is 'down in the dumps' I send them this one, and tell them I really mean it.

And I still maintain, Art Garfunkel was BORN to sing THIS song, and for no other reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-PNun-Pfb4

 

[~KAGE-008]

we have to be content inside ourselves first and that's a lot of work for me because of my own condition. my rabbi taught that we were made imperfect intentionally so that our spirits could grow from how we responded to life's ups and downs.

everybody and everything is good for something and i've found the easiest way to stay content is to go with the flow seeking things and people that make me feel good and avoiding things and people that make me feel bad. it's worked pretty well so far and i've met a lot of people in the indie music and arts world who approach life the same way. don't empower anything that's getting you down.

Agreeing with this statement. From what I've seen from people I know, being alone is NOT a solution for most RL problems. I had to seek support from my family and close friends in order to overcome some serious issue that happened last year. Now, for this one which is being lonely all the time and I hate that, I'll be getting some comprehensive help from my guidance counselor because trying on my own didn't work well.

 

[TommyTooter]

Lord knows I've had my fair share of weeks, possibly even months, of absolutely Magnificent depressions.

But, now, looking back.

There were times when I think I was better of feeling "down" because, there were long stretches when I didn't feel anything.

Since then, I've gotten passed that, and am, all things considered, having a pretty good time.

Thank you.

And, Tooter.... thank you, Ol' Blue Eyes did a pretty good version of that one.

my pleasure, doc. none of the other artists thrilled me and none of the different tracks by judy collins grabbed me either, so i went with a sure thing and the chairman of the board. barbara streisand is on the boycott list because of israel.

Streisand has more going 'for' her than just that. But OK.

Whenever I know a good friend of mine, and I mean a "GOOD" friend (which I can count on one hand), is 'down in the dumps' I send them this one, and tell them I really mean it.

And I still maintain, Art Garfunkel was BORN to sing THIS song, and for no other reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-PNun-Pfb4

i know she does and i really feel bad about being compelled to say it, but there is a growing groundswell of outrage against zionism from the jews. i'm administering part of several multi-faith alliances seeking reunification of palestine and removal of the zionists and the islamists from power at facebook. the people themselves know how to get along. all the fighting is a put on by the banker gangsters. it always has been.

that is a great pick me up song. i don't get in the dumps so much as get over amped. my friends watch out for me zooming and getting panicky or hostile. this is one of my grounding tunes by those guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc&feature=player_detailpage

this one is the one of simon and garfunkel's that was most inspiring for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr-5zaSjfmA

here's some garfunkel and oates for anybody needing a good laugh.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7dfPL7Kho&index=11&list=UU1R9fG_iKqvt9FIhEQH9nTA

 

[TommyTooter]

we have to be content inside ourselves first and that's a lot of work for me because of my own condition. my rabbi taught that we were made imperfect intentionally so that our spirits could grow from how we responded to life's ups and downs.

everybody and everything is good for something and i've found the easiest way to stay content is to go with the flow seeking things and people that make me feel good and avoiding things and people that make me feel bad. it's worked pretty well so far and i've met a lot of people in the indie music and arts world who approach life the same way. don't empower anything that's getting you down.

Agreeing with this statement. From what I've seen from people I know, being alone is NOT a solution for most RL problems. I had to seek support from my family and close friends in order to overcome some serious issue that happened last year. Now, for this one which is being lonely all the time and I hate that, I'll be getting some comprehensive help from my guidance counselor because trying on my own didn't work well.

the way my life played out, my parents refused to accept what i was saying about my gender and i had to suffer in silence until only a very few years ago. i'm never bored or lonely inside myself because there's plenty of things i've found to do that i like to do that i'm either occupy or sleeping and never let myself just sit and brood. i'll always at least be reading a book.

i have to push myself to go out in public. i can't handle any kind of aggression at all from people without running the risk of boiling over and snapping on somebody. my anger is well managed, but i have my thresholds. the bad chemistry of those events is physically painful, so it's something i do my best to avoid.

in my social circles, people don't tolerate the least aggression out of anybody. you almost never see even loud arguments around the real hippies. when we get loud, we're whooping it up. the more tense things are, the quieter it will get.
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[Corleone]

Just listen. By offering your time to me to just listen is very meaningful. Even if you do not have any advice to offer, just the fact that you're is willing to lend an ear a lot.