Does your mood or stress level affect your participation on Fluther and if so, how?

@noelleptc. I’ve been having a hard time finding the funny ones today. I feel so….meh. I need a Dr. Jelly hug.

By the way, if I don’t respond to answers right away, it’s because I’m about to make my lovely 50 mile commute home and then have to battle my kids for possession of the computer. Sigh..not a great mood improver.

I don’t consider myself a very moody person but if I am feeling stressed or down (and it happens to all of us from time to time not always for any particular reason) I tend not to use Fluther at all. The down feeling doesn’t usually last very long :-)

When I’m run down and tired, I don’t answer as many questions. I still read everything that comes up in my activity, I just don’t respond much.

If I feel low or lethargic from day to day toils, then I find it hard to answer questions on here – at those points I’m not in the right frame of mind to give fun, good sense of humour answers, nor serious, meaningful answers, and at those points I don’t necessarily have the confidence to think my knowledge-based anwers would be of any use…

Thankfully, as with @flutherother, the feeling doesn’t usually last very long.

(Have been a bit pre-occupied of late though… but don’t want to slip out of the community, I love it here.)

I am sometimes funnier when I’m in a pissy mood…it’s like I become that cartoon character “Marge”. You know…the wise cracking old lady who wears glasses! But not everyone laughs because it’s humor gleemed from what someone else has written and so some people are very sensitive about what they’ve written. They take offense.

Fluther hug to you.

I participate more when I have deadlines. It is a perfect distraction, darn it.
I participate less the day before the thing is due. I tell myself “I will not click that link. I will not click that link…” If I’m in big trouble like “due date minus 6 hours” I disconnect from the internet completely and drink another coffee.

I actually haven’t seen any effects of stress on my Fluthering because I almost always experience deadline-related stress when I’m under stress, and I procrastinate through Fluther anyways.

Thank you for the great responses and hugs too! I am on via my cell phone and it won’t let me give good answers though. Odd that. It is good to hear other Jelly’s thoughts.

When I’m in a bad mood, I usually don’t answer because I get annoyed by questions for no reason. My mood does affect my participation. Sometimes I won’t answer for days.

The more stressed out I am, the more I want to fluther. fluther keeps me from thinking about myself. It keeps me from being lonely. It keeps my mind occupied. It keeps me from feeling like a failure. So of course I spend more time here, if I can, when the stress is getting to me.

Usually, though, I can’t. I have other problems to attend to. Sometimes I wish I could do other things, but I guess I have lost perspective on this.

I find my mood, in reverse, responding too much to Fluther.

Whilst I often try to use Fluther as a distraction if I am having a bad day, in truth I struggle to Fluther when I am low. I have a look to see what is going on but rarely stay for long. I prefer to Fluther when I am feeling more carefree.

I’ll say not really, although it probably does. We’re not always conscious of such things, especially on a place where most of us have no fuckin idea how the others truly are.

More than that however, alcohol most certainly changes my moods, haha. Of this I am convinced.