How do you cheer yourself up?

Watch something I think is funny, or just do something distracting.

Taking a walk with my dog.
Taking my birds out of the cage for some indoor flight time while my dog tries to catch them.
Go to the All-You-Can-Eat Sushi place and fill-up on my favorite sashimi, sushi and rolls.

You can do anything you like that will break the monotomy of the moment

I’ve been trying to distract myself with listening to music (I’m a sucker for Disney music and it always makes me feel better), doing research for my National Novel Writing Month story, writing other stories, cleaning, watching funny shows like Reba, reading, and doing other things.

When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead… True story !

Talk to a friend. It always makes me feel better.

If the source of the doldrums is something I recognize as just some temporary ‘blahs’ then I try to get out of the house for a bit. Especially enjoying walk in the park etc.Generally that presses my reset button.

If it caused by something problematic – some kind of a relationship impasse for example, then I probably can’t get righted again until time and talking it out bring perspective and hopefully some resolution. Perhaps it is agreeing to disagree.

If the source is loss, well it is a long lonely experience that only listening to your heart and doing the things you know are right to do to bring you forward will bring you out of the overcast atmosphere inside you.

Music, favorite movies, books – what ever it takes – go looking for the light!

I ain’t got time to feel down, life’s too short….blah blah blah.
When I feel angry or irritated though I get the wife or whoever happens to be around to throw rolled up socks right in my face. Works a treat so it does.

Leave your house and go to the mall. Simple.

Chances are you will see some of your friends there and laughter will once again prevail!!!

@john65pennington: If someone wrote me a prescription that had me go to the mall, I would consider it equal to being chained to a trireme, on the bottom layer, with a heavy oar.

Exercise, meditate, make soup, playwith your pet, and find someone who needs a little help.

@sydneyMASH4077: note that all of the activities you are currently involved in are solitary ones and keep you isolated. If the mall works for you, go for it. (I remember that Sydney on MASH was a psychiatrist. Any hidden meaning there?)

Sleep/food always work for me.

You could try things you normally don’t do. Maybe you’ll have the courage to do them now.

Music works the quickest and is most readily available as far as a “fix”. After that would be a choice meal.

Talk or PM with a good friend.

I’m not sure I cheer myself up so much as distract myself. I like fluther as a good source of distraction. Finding some project like mowing the lawn or cleaning the basement or painting the deck—those are always good because you get really get into doing a good job and that will pretty much guarantee you won’t think about anything else. It’ll give you hours of relief, and at the end, you have accomplished something useful.

I especially like really dirty tasks like sweeping up the basement or turning the compost heap (which is under the deck, so you can’t stand up and there are lots of cobwebs hanging down. I was probably a troll in a former life. Heck, some people think I’m a troll in this life!

But that’s a different kind of troll ;-)

Go for a long walk with my dog or take a bus to somewhere different and take photographs. Or if it’s really late at night, too late to go out, I just pour myself a large scotch.