If it can be said that there is anything good about depression, this is when you'll
see it. Assuming that you are feeling much better than you did a month ago (and
if you're not, please check the info on my Medication
page), you may feel almost as if you've been reborn. After having been deprived
of the ability to enjoy everything your life has to offer, you'll notice that
colors are brighter, sounds are sweeter, smells and tastes have more depth. Having
had a lack of interest in things you normally enjoyed before being depressed,
you may find, as I did, that you are all of a sudden interested in everything,
even things you never thought about before.
- Fitness (Mental and Physical)
- Beauty and Fashion
- Useful Stuff for Getting Your Life Back Together
- Exploration/Learning
- Nature/Ecology
- Food/Entertaining
- Travel
Fitness (Mental and Physical)
Keeping physically fit is one of the best ways to supplement what your medication is doing. The more fit and less tense you are, the less work your medicine has to do.
- Sex? What's that? Seriously,
if your sex drive has returned, check out the Good
Vibes web page for supplies and inspiration (21 and over only, please).
- I always know that I'm getting better when I start singing along with music. Then I usually put on some good music with a beat and dance around my room. Try it - it really gets the blood flowing, and makes you feel alive.
Beauty and Fashion
- Check out the web pages from these cosmetic companies:
- I use skin care from Paula
Begoun, because I have very sensitive skin, and her skin care works and
is cheap.
- BeautyNet and Cosmetic
Connection are online beauty magazines.
- alt.fashion is the fashion/beauty newsgroup, which is extremely
active, although somewhat clique-ish. You may feel like you're in high school listening to the cool girl's table, but you can't sit down.
- If you're feeling adventurous,
take a look at Tattoos.Com or BME/Tattoo
and consider getting a tattoo. It's a very bad idea to get one while you're depressed
(kind of like making a decision when you're drunk), but perfectly fine when you're
feeling good about yourself. I got my first tattoo the year I came out of my depression
- now I have three.
- Feel like fashion is fun again (as opposed to only
noticing or caring that you were wearing something)? Get back in the swing
of things at FashionUK, Fashion
Net or Lumiere.
Useful Stuff for Getting Your Life Back Together
I know that when I "awakened" from depression, I realized that I had let the weirdest things go, like renewing my car registration. Other depressives, especially bipolars, may find that they need to get out of a financial hole, either due to overspending or just letting the finances go down the tubes. I hope you find something useful here to help you get things back together.
- CarTalk.com
- Consumer World
- Credit InfoCenter
- Genus Credit Management
- Getting Out of Debt
- Nolo
- SmartMoney.com
- If you live in the UK near London, you might be able to get training in your home at a low cost from U Can Do I.T.
Exploration/Learning
As your thoughts begin to turn more outward than inward, you may have some interest in discovery and learning.
- Take a free online course at
Barnes
& Noble.com. Offerings range from computer and science courses to
literature and languages.
- Fathom pulls together everything
you need for online learning.
- Henrietta Leavitt
Flat Screen Space Theater is a virtual planetarium; very cool.
- Ocean Planet
Home Page is a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Museum
of Natural History.
- Exploratorium:
Exploranet
- The National
Geographic Society's web site hosts its magazines, books and television shows.
- Paleontology
Without Walls
- Virtual Antartica
kept me absorbed for over an hour in the flora, fauna and facts about Antartica
and Virtual Galapagos was equally
fascinating.
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