Anhedonia - not finding pleasure in things you normally take pleasure in - is a symptom of depression.
When depressed, you will also be reluctant to start things, and won’t find things appealing.
This sets up a nasty vicious cycle where ‘life feels bleak’ -> ‘nothing sounds fun’ -> do nothing -> don’t have fun -> ‘Hey I’m not having fun, life really is pretty bleak right now’ -> More depressed.
The way to break that cycle is to do things that you enjoy. Doing things solely for the sake of having fun is an important part of handling depression. Not only does it keep you from getting more depressed, but it can make you go ‘Hey I’m having a really nice day’ and give you bouncy energy to do productive things with.
I get so focused on all the things that need doing that I forget that when depressed, doing things solely because they’re fun is the practical thing to do if I want to get thing done.
There is a difference between procrastination and having trouble activating. If there’s a thing you need to do and you know you aren’t going to be able to do it now, do something fun, and afterwards you will have better odds of actually doing the thing.
If you find yourself in the situation in the picture, pick something that you are intellectually aware you would find fun if you were feeling better and start doing it.’ This means that you are focusing on something other than *sigh* and playing a game can make you feel productive, put ‘life is good!’ and ‘I can succeed at things!’ chemicals into a brain that is sorely in need of them.
A couple weeks ago when I couldn’t even find any interest in reading fanfic, I eventually managed to start playing a random RPG and felt much better a few hours later.
i certainly wasn’t expecting anything close to actual, halfway decent advice that might help some folks out when i threw this little Funne Picture out into the wild, but that’s nice. thank you. i’m not sure if i’ll ever break this little cycle for more than a few hours, but .. yeah man. it’s just a little nice to see folks trying to help other folks out on posts of mine instead of the usual terrible nonsense
Exactly what I needed right now.
Easy to parse version:
Anhedonia is a symptom of depression, it’s not finding enjoyment in things that once made you happy.
If you find yourself in this situation, pick something that you KNOW you would find fun or enjoyable.
When you’re depressed, the best thing to do is do things BECAUSE they’re fun, it’ll help motivate you more.
Tumblr, settle a debate for me. Does “Oh, man!” as an interjection imply anything about the gender of your interlocutor? Or can you say, “Oh man, those fireworks were awesome!” to a woman or enby and be accurate?
No implication.
correct.
‘Dude’ (as an interjection) also mostly does not imply a gender, although I would be inclined to use a different interjection when speaking to a trans woman.
“Oh man” should only be used when talking to men, “Oh God” should only be used when talking to God, “Oh hell” should only be used when talking to the Devil, and “Oh no” should only be used when talking to the Void.
It’s dawning on me just how genuinely difficult it is to figure out if an FMA character is good or bad when they’re introduced.
And this is because literally 90% of them debut by trying to beat the crap out of Ed. Seriously. If you tally up every good/ally character at the end and divide them into “tried to beat up Ed in their introductory episode” and “did not try to beat up Ed”, I’m willing to bet the first category is larger.
A list of eventually “good” characters who were introduced by assaulting Edward Elric:
Roy Mustang
Winry Rockbell (manga introduction)
Scar
Izumi Curtis
Greed
Greed again
Slicer(s)
Tim Marcoh
Ling Yao
Lanfan
Fu
Mei Chang
Buccaneer
The Entire Briggs Mountain Army
Jerso
Zampano
Darius
Heinkel
I made a helpful collage
Extra fun fact, the series Big Bad, Father, is introduced to Ed by healing Ed’s wounds. Ed and Al spend at least five minutes of that episode thinking “Maybe this dude isn’t so bad” which honestly I understand when you consider 2/3 of the people Ed meets typically try to kill him.
“the entire briggs army”
also the characters whos introduction is friendly tend to be evil people
Father healed him right up without even being asked
Pride fanboyed over him(if only as part of his disguise)
Wrath was impressed with his alchemy and complemented him at the exam
Shou tucker was happy to have them over and share his research
Tumblr just passed a new law. No more discourse unless you list your references with MLA citation
Shut the fuck up
Your Face, and Your Mother. The Fuck Up. Shut: Scholastic, 2017. Print.
Okay, so…
This is an MLA citation of a book called “The Fuck Up” published in the small town of Shut printed by the children’s book company Scholastic within the last month and a half by a fellow name “and Your Mother Your Face”
REFERENCES
“MLA 7 Quick Guide: The Basics” EasyBib. Web. 14 Feb 2017
Why are you guys even using MLA, if you’re old enough to know what you’re talking about you should be using APA or Chicago
It doesn’t matter what format you use (unless the journal you’re submitting to has a particular style guide), butremember to be internally consistent! Don’t Shut the Fuck Up in Chicago, Get Fucked in MLA, and then Mind Your Own Fucking Business in APA. The important thing is for your readers to be able to go fuck themselves easily without having to ask the author directly for more information as to the location of their orifices. Happy citing!
context: the DM just made my character (a half-elf) lose some of her elven beauty. then our halfling sorcerer collapsed. my character went to make sure she was okay.
Me: I run over to Stellae and put my hand on her shoulder and ask if she’s okay.
Sorcerer: I flinch away from her.
DM: Why?
Sorcerer: Because she ugly.
