How do you de-stress or cheer yourself up?

[HomokHarcos]

Bristow9091 said:

HomokHarcos said:

Also I'm not sure if this will work with you, but think of this (because I don't what your issue is). Will the problem matter in 5 months? 5 years?

Well I mean, I was diagnosed with dysthymia when I was sixteen, which is mild depression, and over the years it's turned into MDD (Major Depressive Disorder), and I've been through a series of different medications which haven't worked, they've just made me feel worse, or in a state of numbness where I never really felt anything, but at the same time, all of the medications I've been prescribed have conflicted with my epilepsy medication and caused my seizures to become worse. So in short, yes, the problem will still matter in five months or five months, since it's now been ten years and I'm still having the same problem, just worse than when I started with it, lol.

JRPGfan said:
Bristow9091 try getting more sleep too.
It sounds weird, but theres a link between sleep (less) -> stress (more).

Take the time you need to rest properly for a month or so and see if your stress isnt better from it.

My sleep pattern has been so fucked up since back in my high school days, so much so that I now average around three hours sleep per night and that feels normal to me, sometimes I'll only have two, some days I'll force myself to stay in bed and only end up with five hours anyway... it's as if I have some form of insomnia that has been brought on from a dreadfully abused sleep pattern for so long. 

This is hard to solve. Some like to tell others to just think more positively, but if people were able to do that they would have already.