Self-Pity; Is it better to eat chocolate or something more constructive?
Fri, 2001-06-15 23:41
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Self-Pity; Is it better to eat chocolate or something more constructive?
I had a wallow day yesterday and I suddenly thought, what do other people (writers in particular) do when they have the self-pitying blues? Do you fill up with rich food and tea, lashings of alcohol or do you sing songs from The Sound Of Music to create a false jollity? Do you like to hiberate (my solution) or wail and gnash your teeth in public? Or something entirely more constructive/destructive/morbid/dull?
Self Pithy
Me, I pity Will Self too.
wolfie
I have just realise that my topic question does not make good grammatical sense. However, pedants amongst you please do not point this out. I am fragile enough.
stormy petrel
lashings of alcohol, music and hibernation.
all at the same time.
others I know listen to Morrisey. But that would tip me over the edge.
ivoryllama
when languishing in self pity (which happens rarely - only about thrice a week) ... we drink gin,chainsmoke and complain loudly to our friends ... they are seldom any use at all ...
our motto here at the IvoryLlama Crest Counselling Centre is
"Pull Yourself Together" ... " Get A Grip" ... or sometimes we are heard to say "you think YOU have problems ... listen to MINE"
Emily Dubberley
I phone all my mates. Of course, they're all out 'cos that's what happens when you're in the depths of feeling rubbish. Then, chocolate and white wine beckon (along with Ally McBeal - who deserves a slap - and Friends)
soft lad
i want to be like my dad
when i throw up.
iFB
soft lad ... tell your dad it is time you had your fringe cut .. will he please take you to the barbers
robert
i think about the person worse off than me
ivy & myrt
and who can THAT be ... oh 9 stone cowboy????
stormy
cheers robert
robert
as it happens stormy the position of person worse off has recently been vacated...if you'd like to apply please do so (include full details of your cd collection)
iFB
hey cowboy ... who was IN the position before???? *agog*
Liana
*standing up nervously*
I appear to have an Acker Bilk cd in my collection.
stormy pity
collection?
robert
*raises eyebrows and goes to bed, sober*
Liana
*sobs*
Not through choice Robert!!!!!
I bought it in the mistaken belief that my mum liked him.
She snorted " Noooo, it's Herbie Hancock you fool!" and threw it back at me.....
l dont play it! much.....
robert
i know a very good therapist liana, she may be able to help you...perhaps...
iFB
*ups dangle quotient in hopes of fat fee*
steady there
The worse thing you can do is write about it, I've read some of the stuff people have written in their low moods and frankly those people would have been better off, laying off the writing and in the words of Why Don't You ?......go and do something less boring instead.
Get out of the flat....go to a pub, see a film, a play, go buy a book....anything
spritely llama
no leaping ...
spritely llama
no chasing dogs ...
poodle
phew!
iFB
down boy i said!!!!
wolfgirl
A giggle. Job done.
Eddie Gibbons
for those of you without llamas and poodles, may i suggest the following site for a bit of perspective?http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
awesome!
Builders Mate
I eat bricks or breeze blocks when I'm in self pity mode - they are very constructive.
iFB
self pity mode is really very self indulgent ... i should know ... there are two ways to deal with it ... but neither of them work ...
Andrea
Get out the sloe and put on Cohen, Fish. It won't work either, but at least you'll be oblivious...
tony
Wollow in it wolfie!try and get your local willy wonka neighbourhood charachter to give you a swift bubble blow job,it makes you feel like an aero,then we can all get on with the serious stuff,shiting perfectly shaped toblerones..........