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May 3, 2010

What is the motivation for giving someone a thumbs up or down?

I’m curious to see what makes you want to rate other people’s answers? I mean what makes you decide to click on one vs. just reading it and continuing on? I’ve gotten thumbs down for what I thought were decent answers and I’ve wondered why. Do you think people are more likely to give thumbs up or a thumbs down? Is this an interesting question?

What do you do to pick yourself up when you are feeling down?

I am so bummed out I don’t know what to do. My whole life is a big mess. Usually I am very neat, clean, and organized. Since the last week of April, I have been completely off track and it just gets worse and worse everyday. I’m throwing papers on the floor, laundry is piled way up, I haven’t been to the grocery store in over a month, except for little trips for little things, and most days I don’t even make the bed. It’s like I can’t get going around here. After backing out of buying a house, I just went from wanting to move out of here to hating living here. I don’t even care about being clean anymore. It would be nice if this whole thing would end and we would move. I have cabin fever in the worst kind of way living in the same room I eat and sleep in is putting me over the deep end. Three years living in this apt. is way beyond my limit. I’m sorry this is so bummed out. There’s no one around to talk to, the kids are asleep. so it’s just me, the TV, and the computer.

Why does something always have to bring me down when I am happy?

Life always seems to be going along smoothly and then once you think everything is fine and dandy, BAM, it turns to crap. Why does this happen and what do you people do to make things better or make yourself happy once again?

Can you write down positive attitudes and techniques for surviving life?

…, optimistic people?
give me more. i need more charge.

How Do You Not Let The Bad Parts Of The World Bring You Down, & Keep A Positive Attitude?

I feel like there is so much ugliness, selfishness and BS in the world, that I just get so angry, depressed, and just affected by it, and sometimes I just feel like, why bother, people suck, I hate life, and it really just turns me into this nasty, angry, jaded, bitter, person.
Being that the world is how it is,…and most likely getting worse,
is there any way we can just..despite that, still get the most out of life and try to be more positive, or will our environment/world inevitably have an impact on us however small?
Most people are already being conditioned to be that way anyways, I see it all the time.
It’s hard, I mean I seriously get so desensitized, to the point where even when I hear about bad news, I think, so what big whoop or laugh because I think, that b9tch probably deserved it! haha. I start turning nasty myself, & lash out, and just treat others like total sh9t.
At the end of the day I just want to be happy and I don’t want to be this mean person towards others, but I see this world as a shitty place, and I’m sick of it, and I turn into this mean/nasty person because of it.
I also tried the “God” approach, but it’s so..completely extremist at times, and alot of the so called “god” people also let you down and aren’t really that great of help, it really depends. That path was just…wayyyyy too unrealistic and theyrre screaming “OMG THE END TIMES ARE HERE RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAH” inducing fear in you, if you even believe in them; they lack the abilities to rationalize and see things from another point of view.
I tried the whole drug/therapy etc approach, which does work, being that you have great doctors, but …still, you walk out that office….and you re-enter the f’ed up world we live in, and eventually it sucks you back into its…..chaos.
Any advice? That is, if you’re not already gone yourself, lol.

Have You Ever Going Through Something That Really Broke Down Your Self-esteem?

I want to speed up my progress over the summer. I haven’t been able to get back to my old self as quickly as i thought i would bounce back. I am just not sure how to promote that sort of growth – feelings of self efficacy. Before I got my self esteem from external sources, now i dont feel like i can draw from the same ones… Anyone have advice for me?

How To Get Back Motivation Down The Gym?

Ok this is for my friend. He is lacking motivation down the gym lately and barely does a decent workout, I went through the same stage but not back to loving it.
Any ideas on how to get his motivation back?

How Would One Get Organized And Settle Down And Do Homework?

ok so i have soooo much homework to do and im soo behind in every course that im in and i have 3 days weekend to finish everything
can someone help me
i just need tips on how to calm down, realive my stress and how/when to start my work
thanks