Fun little things you do to keep from killing yourself

[A.M. Thomas]

4 hours a week of therapy?  that must be great.

Imagine being Julie's therapist?  I would actually pay to have her talk to me four hours a week.  And I'm being sincere.

[Julie]

Make up songs about the cats or whatever I'm doing at any particular moment.

I always make up those kinds of songs, too, mainly for Yetta. I don't feel crazy for it anymore. Thank you so much!

[Julie]

4 hours a week of therapy?  that must be great.

Imagine being Julie's therapist?  I would actually pay to have her talk to me four hours a week.  And I'm being sincere.

We could work something out. I do love talking and I adore money.

[Patrick]

i tend to drink a lot of alcohol at the end of the day.  it does the trick. 

also long bike rides, or yoga.  i find that loud rock music helps. 

[erika]

http://www.cuteoverload.com

[Susannah]

This might sound weird, but one of my favorite things to do when I get really stressed out is look at the AAA Road Atlas and plan routes for potential road trips.  It doesn't even matter if I never take them, but somehow picking a weird destination, figuring out how I'd get there and what I'd do along the way is greatly distracting and oddly relaxing.  Otherwise:

--Eating copious amounts of Rocky Road ice cream
--Looking at this David Hockney painting (swimming pool, diving board, etc.) I have hanging on my wall
--Reading essays by EB White and Roald Dahl
--Calling my mom to listen to her prattle on about her day.  She's happy I'm calling her and I like the details of her small-town intrigues, so it's a win-win situation.

[Fido]

I gaze at road atlases too, Susannah, imagining possible future trips. I do it a lot actually. Actually taking such trips is much, much better, but just planning them is good too.

Also, I think I know the sort of David Hockneys you are referring to, and I like those a lot. I liked your post.

[A.M. Thomas]

4 hours a week of therapy?  that must be great.

Imagine being Julie's therapist?  I would actually pay to have her talk to me four hours a week.  And I'm being sincere.

We could work something out. I do love talking and I adore money.

Start a talk radio show, lady.

[Susannah]

This is the one I meant, but others are good too:



James Thurber is also a good substitute for EB White and Roald Dahl.  I love those 1940s-50s-era New Yorker types.

[tenspeed]

I actually live above a yoga studio, which is great because it's a quiet building.  So I pace back and forth in my apartment.  I have a special path.

I also mutter.  Muttering helps.

[erika]

I smoosh my face into my boyfriend's chest and leave it there for like 5 minutes while inhaling slowly. Lately this has been working pretty well to diffuse the stress. So if you have a significant other, give it a whirl.

[Martin]

--Calling my mom to listen to her prattle on about her day.  She's happy I'm calling her and I like the details of her small-town intrigues, so it's a win-win situation.

I do this all the time. Calms me down.

[John Junk 2.0]

Draw a picture of a guy killing himself.

[Martin]

Kill someone else.

[Amplituden]

When in an elevator alone I like to dance.  When people come on the elevator, its fun to try not to laugh or smile.