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⌈ Secret Post #3320 ⌋

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(Rick and Morty)

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03. http://i.imgur.com/u0ymbUk.gifv
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[Steven Universe]

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[Hanna Barbera Comics Reboot]

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[The Flash]

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[Renaud]

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[The Shannara Chronicles]

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11. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]

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12. [WARNING for incest / underage]

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13. [WARNING for rape]

[Okane Ga Nai]

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14. [WARNING for rape]

[Hockey RPF]

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I asked for a bunch of adult coloring books for Christmas because I wanted to see if it would help with my anxiety. I've only colored like 4 pages. I feel terrible about it. They're wasted! Wasted! :(

I got a bunch of coloring books for my mom for Xmas. She'd xeroxing them so she can reuse the patterns. Maybe try that?

No, they are still there. You can colour in them tonight.

Same, except I bought the book myself. Instead of calming, I'd stress out about picking out the right colors to use and messing up the coloring. lmao.

Exactly! I tried to pick out random colors and it looked terrible. And then I made a really nice one and tried to color in the background and it looked like shit and I felt so bad.

You're being too hard on yourself. It's just a fucking coloring book. It's okay if it looks like ass. And if it's shittiness bothers you, take a page from another poster's book and make a copy before you start so you can do it again but better.

I think you're meant to take them slowly and colour bits and pieces at a time, you're doing great!

I've been off my psych drugs for 4-5 years now. I just stopped taking them. I'm scared to restart. On the one hand, I'm a complete mess and my depression is bad. On the other hand, I'm at a particular point in my life at this moment where I'm scared that a changed mental state would affect me in ways I can't anticipate and it could be bad. I just keep telling myself to just get through the next couple of months and then I can start taking them again. But I'm also scared I won't get through the next couple of months.

And, to be honest, part of it is that I can't swallow pills, Prozac tastes nasty, and my insurance won't cover the liquid form.

Would it be possible to try out different antidepressants?

I don't know if you can do it with prozac, but when I was younger and couldn't take pills, my mom would crush them into applesauce. Can you do something like that?

Coloring books don't go bad. If you enjoyed them, then they aren't wasted! And if you didn't enjoy them, you've probably got a friend who would.

Also, I own several adult coloring books, but I've only colored two pages because I'm super busy. Hobbies exist to relax you and make you happy, they don't come with a deadline. You are doing just fine.

Yeah, try the photocopying idea that was mentioned before. You can also print patterns off the internet. Maybe you can even digitally color them too, so you can erase and start over without having to worry about wasting anything. I find that helps with my anxiety.

I post here regularly under two different names and also anon.

I think I'm developing yellow fever

>_>

I remember before Deathly Hallows came out and there counselors preemptively getting ready to help kids in case Harry died

Dumb as it sounds, I wish I had that. A fictional character's death really upset me and I know it's not normal to be this upset. I know it probably has to do with my depression rl, but I feel dumb because wtf self they're fictional. Why are you projecting all your issues onto a character?

Haha. After the death in The Half-Blood Prince, I was like fucking heartbroken for half a day. I comforted myself by writing a stupid crack theory about how the person was still alive, and pulled all sorts of "evidence" out of my ass, and then posting it on the internet. It wasn't a bad outlet, and believe it or not, it improved my mood immensely and helped me to accept the death.

That's how I was with Sirius in OOTP. And I was even spoiled before hand but refused to believe it because of course she wouldn't do that to Sirius right? I totally read all the fix-its where he was really alive or Harry got him out of the veil.

I stopped watching OUAT when Neal died, but I'm still lurking in fandom, hoping he'll be back, even though I know the only reason his characterization wasn't totally awful is that the writers killed him off before they could completely ruin him (even if the manner of his death made him look less intelligent than he should've been.) Still mad he's dead and it's been ... Two years? Something like that. It's not the reason I'm depressed, but I get where you're coming from because seriously, brain, you have real shit to worry about, a dead character from a shitty Disney soap shouldn't freak you out so much.

Ugh Neal's death was such bullshit. OUAT is such shit.

I know I'd be putting more time and effort into finding a new job if I wasn't living with my parents and being financially supported by them.

Frankly, coloring books are best left in childhood. As an adult I've never felt that coloring would calm me.

It sounds counter intuitive, but if you can, choose light to moderate physical activity to treat anxiety/depression rather than quiet activities. The physical exertion produces helpful endorphins, it's sort of forcing your body to prioritize its physical needs over your mental/emotional ones. As an added bonus, you'll be in better physical shape with regular exercise, and your mental health can only benefit from that.

omg that sounds so fun. Why not scan the pages and color them with photoshop or any other program?

Confession... mmh well I have a giant Goku poster inside my closet I've been meaning to hang in my bedroom.

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