For me it's music, i just have a fantasic conection with music :D
What about you?
i play guitar it is my solitude moment i put on head phones and play
jessica
What gets me through is incredible stubbornness - I just wont quit.
What I do to relax and let go is snuggle my hound. She loves being snuggled and returns the affection so everything else just melts away.
Durning tuff times I just try to stay really busy.
That way I don't have time to think about it.
Jillieann
Reading, studying.
Music, Drawing, Good Food, My Daughter, My Partner, My Friends, Stubbornnes, And massive doses of painkillers! ;)
My partner.
crying and meditation. Oh, and sometimes chocolate.
music
Crying, getting my mind distracted by my favorite TV shows, My family here.
Hugs,
Janet
My Partner (that's her in the photo, she is the blonde...) and my uncle Russell (some of you from the UK may just have seen him once or twice... ;)) who has a lovely villa in Tuscany where I can go to chill out!
(PS - and yes he kind of really IS my uncle... I told you I had a sympathetic extended family. ;D)
music, humor, and stubbornness
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Note the importance of the Giant Bar, anything less is just a waste. Nothing beats a night of chocolate and Buffy the Vampire Slayer dvds.
Quote from: Becca on December 22, 2009, 04:54:53 PM
oooooooh yea, and vicodin!
erm... sorry to be dim but what is vicodin?
Vicodin is a trademarked brand narcotic analgesic product containing hydrocodone and paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen). Vicodin is used to relieve moderate to severe pain.
Good stuff for pain, but addictive.
Quote from: Janet Lynn on December 22, 2009, 05:01:24 PM
Good stuff for pain, but addictive.
Ah! thanks - That expains it. Like I say - sorry to be dim, but I saw it mentioned in a couple of threads and I wondered. I'm a bit of a medical minimalist myself... I don't really like taking even asprin so other than HRT I'm a bit clueless about meds.
Vinny and I are old friends thanks to my back. I, personally, don't get high off it but here in the US, it is a Schedule III Controlled Substance. And was recommended to be banned by the FDA advisory committee on June 30, 2009. But as of yet the FDA has not banned it.
Janet
QuoteAbout 124 million prescriptions for Vicodin and its generic equivalents were written in the United States last year
That's just Vicodin, I didn't look up Percocet.
Yeah it's addictive but it also works really well. I would hope the fda would stay out of things and stop trying to idiot-proof the world, because Vicodin has greatly improved the quality of my life. I haven't seen Percocet in action yet, but I will soon.
Honestly if they banned it I would prolly buy it off the street until electro is done, it makes that much difference for me. If anything having to answer to a doctor and running the risk of NOT having it for electro is good motivation not to abuse it.
What gets me through? Music, silly movies, meditation, and - best of all - friends. My friends here and IRL have pulled me out of plenty of tough times in the last year.
Thanks, friends. :icon_bunch:
- Kate
Music, Equlibrium is the best. German folk at it's finest my dear.
Blut im Auge is a song you can never be depressed to, no matter how bad you feel.
Quote from: Becca on December 22, 2009, 04:51:20 PM
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Note the importance of the Giant Bar, anything less is just a waste. Nothing beats a night of chocolate and Buffy the Vampire Slayer dvds.
Oh you read my mind~.
Ice cream of some chocolate variety (Blue Bell's Fudge Brownie Nut is my favorite, thought it's not always available), alcohol, and the internet. :)
Quote from: MissAshley on December 22, 2009, 11:44:58 PM
Ice cream of some chocolate variety (Blue Bell's Fudge Brownie Nut is my favorite, thought it's not always available), alcohol, and the internet. :)
double choc fudge ice cream, southern, hershey's dark, ginger ale and internet. yup a feast for heaven( and some sleep)
Oh.. Meditation does wonders too!
Music, and sleep seem to do the trick (not at the same time!). And sometimes alcohol (hey i'm only human).
a good book (usually Sci-fi), friends, coffee, music - especially the blues, work, beauty wherever I can see or hear it - and imagining it being very different.
(Vicodin and alcohol scare me - I work to help people recover from the bad effects. But the government telling us how to live scares me too. Not everything that is not ok should be illegal)
I think imagining meditating helps me sometimes too.
You lot.
White wine - but I'm giving it up
Shopping
Reading
Leonard Cohen
Working out at the gym with Pink Floyd blasting my ears off through the Ipod.
Cindy
Yes good book (usually Sci-fi). That helps me too Kendall.
Really...really good sex. Merlot. A savings account. Reading something inspirational. The magic of cinema. Watching the sun come up.
A bath, a good book, listening to music, sleeping, exercising, talking to the people I love.
Thinking of what the alternatives are. Then I pick myself up and get on with it.
Quote from: CindyJames on December 24, 2009, 01:29:23 AMblasting my ears off through the Ipod.
Woo I forgot my iPod. I discovered some Monopoly and Uno apps the other night and now can curl up under the blanket for hours and play games with myself.