(OT) Some advice for me / My Depression Thread / Thanks forumers

[minipol]

Hmm. That's a tough one. Getting yourself motivated is the clue. And to get yourself motivated you need to know exactly what you like to do. For instance, you like SEIV and what do we see? You spend a lot of time on this forum and you invest time to play the game. So obviously you're not amotivated or lazy because you do stuff but you probably only do stuff that you like. (who doesn't?)

Get some other interests, set some goals. Doesn't matter what. On the other side, it's kind of normal to feel "amotivated/'lazyness" when you're only 17. That's normal. I think nearly everybody went through that fase. Also, i even have that now and then.

And about girls, like you said, you're 17, you've got plenty of time.

Also, you seem like a person that analyzes a lot of stuff that happens around him. If that is the case, try to not over analyze stuff. Can really start to annoy you. I used to do that and even know and then i have to say: "minipol, stop processing those thoughts over and over and over again and DO something about it rather than thinking about it all the time".
It helps. Sometimes i have to use voilence to make my brain listen to me

[oleg]

Originally posted by Taera:
Oleg: i dont get along too well with russians as it stands. israeli/russians (i mean, those who are both) have quite a different mentality. i will be though looking into that when a chance arises.

Are you sure ? I have two good friends emmigrated to Israel. I feel much more in common with them than with average "christian" russian. But it may be a generation gap. In fact, I'm pretty sad by all the corruption of money lust inflicted on the generation grown later. I can see that the young russian people you can meet are sons of "new russians" (bandits who ran the country now). Of course you can feel sick just talking with them

[Taera]

yes and no, most russians here are not from 'russia' but from southern countries like Kazahstan. While its okay i dont have anything in common with them. The 'real' russians are sons of 'new russians' tho. yes.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Taera:
Q: how to deal with amotivation/'lazyness'?

A: Drink Red Bull. No, seriously. Drink some kind of energy drink; it'll give you that itchy energy that you just wanna get rid of.

[Taera]

haha are those things are realy any good?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

and willpower helps alot. i have 'blah' days or hours sometimes, and i just tell myself 'if i do this, i'll enjoy it.' then i do whatever it is.

[Taera]

EDIT: what i posted was pointless... i edited it to make more sense

i have developed myself a strong willpower over the Last few years that helped me a lot - i often had been able to overcome the, as narf said, 'blah' moods. lately it've been kinda crushed by evening depression - ironically evenings are the time when im doing things, like 3d modelling or doing hw or writing letters or ANYTHING. im a night person, usually my inspirations strike me after 10 o'clock and im motivated to do stuff.

right now i have hard time finding myself anything to do at evenings. i dont know the reason though, i did always spend many of my evenings at home.

[ May 25, 2003, 07:09: Message edited by: Taera ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe your getting bored with your evenings?

[Taera]

maybe

[dogscoff]

I'm not sure I agree with that Red Bull advice. I mean maybe it would work well for you but it just makes me think of this girl I used to know who was utterly dependent on "proplus" caff tablets. She was working really long hours (we all were) and she was unable to function without taking huge doses of this stuff and believe me she was damned scary- an unnatural amount of energy and mood swings like you wouldn't believe. Not good.