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fuck it.
ever have these days / weeks?

i have spent the last 4 days in a fuzz, but so many things have happened that i 'should' be attending to.
blah de blah.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 2 October 2003 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

overload.
shutdown.
know it?

― donna (donna), Thursday, 2 October 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

so much

you don't know

temp work

wearing my glasses all day

internet

coffee

how old am I now?

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 2 October 2003 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes indeed. Work, drudge that it is, sits stagnating in front of me as I fill my head with NaNoWriMo ideas never acted upon.

And I never get my work done, either.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 October 2003 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Trayce, those were exactly my thoughts, apart from the 'NaNoWriMo' bit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 2 October 2003 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

my life owns this thread

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 2 October 2003 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this is very much me of the last two weeks

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus.. who can't relate to this? Oh, right... successful people.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 2 October 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the more things i am supposed to do, the less i feel like doing em. i have been having a month like that, and the coming month will be exactly the same.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's becoming too much of an effort to actually leave my room at the moment.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Arghghghghghgghghgh.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to post here this morning and then I thought "no negative vibes for me".

THEN TODAY I GOT A CALL FOR SOME WORK!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not really unmotivated, just overwhelmed by so many things I feel I need or have to do. There aren't enough hours in the day, it's true. It's a cliche, to be certain, but also honest. I have tons of ideas and thoughts swimming in my head at any given moment, and by the time I can jot them down for posterity's sake they've either scrambled themselves up into some undecipherable jumble, or they've simply disappeared. Major, major ackage.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I love having staff, the have to do stuff for me. Most things seem too much like hard work at the moment.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I have been lost in a whirlpool of motivationless misery for the past 4 months. I am, quite possibly, the single worst employee in the history of the world ever. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUSDFJAWIENFWQIEFNQWEPIOFMPOSMDFA so insanely frustrating!!

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

You have friends here. Many, many friends.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Tons indeed -- but it sounds like he's talking about his work, which is another dynamic altogether.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

A timely revive, actually... I've been showing up late to work, doing nothing all day, and then feeling terrible about it, and I can't seem to break the cycle by... I dunno... DOING something. It's frustrating to not be able to make yourself do anything. I don't know what it is. The weather?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Can anybody explain to me why I have such an amazingly intense aversion to doing stuff that is not really that difficult? I mean, I used to be able to get stuff done. In fact, I still can. It's just this particular work for these particular people which I just cannot bring myself to put any degree of concerted effort into.

Any advice at all is welcome. Yes, I've tried to "just fucking do it". It seems like no matter what I do I always find a way to procrastinate.

(xpost: exactly!!)

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

In simple terms, it sounds like neither the work nor the people you work with/for is engaging your interest anymore. Would you want to look elsewhere?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm quttin in a couple of weeks. I just have this stuff that really needs to get done before I go.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Andrew, I feel you more than you can possibly believe.

It's just this particular work for these particular people which I just cannot bring myself to put any degree of concerted effort into.

I think I said this almost verbatim to my girlfriend yesterday. It doesn't feel like laziness -- God knows that I know what that feels like. It's like some kind of mental block.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm quttin in a couple of weeks.

That's where we differ... I think (warning: self-diagnosis ahead) that part of my problem is some buried fear that if I work hard at what I'm doing now, I'll be doing it forever.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

I just have this stuff that really needs to get done before I go.

Sounds a bit like senioritis, as we say over here. Just let it build up for a day and then you'll feel more motivation, I'd figure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

If your work is like mine, your internal clock will tell you when you can't procrastinate any more and still make deadline. I fuck around and fuck around, and finally I say "eh..." and quit the browser (and ILX) and get on with it.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. You can concentrate for maybe 5-15 minutes, and then somehow you're drawn away by something frivilous and just cannot bring yourself to keep working. WHY WHY WHY!?!?!?

If your work is like mine, your internal clock will tell you when you can't procrastinate any more and still make deadline.

Oh no, that point has passed a LONG, LONG time ago.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Andrew, you had me fooled a while back when you said something on Kate's thread about her employment troubles when you said something about enjoying the weekly status meetings.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

i've been doing what's described in the thread title for a while now and i think i'm basically destroying my own life doing it. is there like some quick fix to making yourself motivated at all?

― Allyzay Highlights The Fallacy of Radiohead (allyzay), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

it's so easy, to get into it.

I wonder how I ever get out, now and then.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Andrew, you had me fooled a while back when you said something on Kate's thread about her employment troubles when you said something about enjoying the weekly status meetings.

The last time I enjoyed one of those... wow.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you didn't use the word "enjoyed" exactly. It wasn't that long ago, last November maybe?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I wonder too. I have this piece of writing to finish and it's absolutely killing me. I cannot bear to even look at it! Thing is, once I finish I'll never have to do one again. But I just can't drag myself through the process one more time. It completely sucks. I don't know, did you try bringing a flask of gin to the office?

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

how motivated are we all lately?

I'm knackered, almost at the end of my tether with failed unfinished projects building up around me. It's almost making me sick to think about them, I'm lacking my creative back bone to even get started on some of the stuff I should be doing.

Doesn't help that all my irl friends are quite well self motivated either.

I'm getting plenty of exercise and fresh air, my diet has improved, perhaps more sleep may be needed i dunno. I just don't know why I can't get up off my arse lately.

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I am motivated by spite right now. I'm doing pretty well out of it, too.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

not too good, I am waiting to hear about getting a job again, to bring an end to the drift of freelancing and anguish about having no ideas or having ideas rejected.

I have a few projects of my own on the go but find it hard to give them attention too.

I know that weird feeling you mention Ste, it's sometimes like something inside me is reviled every time I try to do something.

― Ronan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

i suffer from this part of the time, and not at all the other part of the time.

there are two answers

1. routine/structure. this cannot be overstated. if you need to go to bed at 11 and get up at 7 then make sure this happens, no excuses. dinner on the go as soon as you get in, not lounging about for half an hour first, because half an hour becomes an hour - if youre the kind of person that can let time slip away, you have to take steps to maximize it

2. little and incremental targets. target is too big and it turns into ah fuck it i'll do it tomorrow. for me some saturday go like, get up too late, dont shower and breakfast straightaway, suddenly food is happening at wrong time, then feel lacklustre hungry and tired all at the wrong time and either dont feel like going out, or do and dont enjoy it. other times wake up, target get up at 8, shower 830, breakfast 9, then im going to be working on reaktor for a few hours , but even in that there might be targets so i dont end up fiddling, lunch 1230 on the dot, etc etc

then day is structured i feel good physically and emotionally, and not tired, and then i can go out and get fucked if i want. course sunday is a write off then but it doesnt matter.

all the above can be easily thrown away if worried or stressed or preoccupied. this is the exact time you need to be focusing on the above. structure and mini-targets

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

it often comes down to simple things, like if i remember to drink a pint of water before i leave in the morning, i know im structured and positive. if i dont, im more likely to get off on wrong foot. no water and play snake on tube=bad start. water and music/book on tube=good start

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I am dangerously unmotivated. I have to go through a mini-nervous-breakdown for every press deadline I have, to really buckle down and get busy on the work at hand. These little spaz attacks are starting to show some accumulated effect. It's getting where not even saying to myself "excuse me, how would you like to have to go out and find an actual JOB?" helps.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

that's some good advice, I've been convinced for a while that I need more structure to make things happen. And I can totally relate to that feeling of when your plans for eating and sleeping aren't being met=something suddenly amiss.

I certainly need to assert myself more. I suffer from long hangovers, endulging at the weekend, even if its just on Saturdays, can result in nil activity for about three days later and depression is prone to set in at some point which may extend it even further.

I hate it when I have good intentions though and then I go and turn on the playstation and thats me for the evening and all my plans out the window. just because the damn couch is so comfy.

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have a few projects of my own on the go but find it hard to give them attention too

it's annoying isn't it. it's not as if you don't even want to give them attention, in fact most of my projects are pretty exciting (to me) and I'd love to spend whole evenings on them. so why don't I?

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

because you own a playstation

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

playstations are great

― onimo, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

and i speak as a seasoned unmotivated procrastinating skiver

― onimo, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

i really think the role of diet cant be overstated here. the healthier diet is the better motivated i am. one falls a bit, so does the other

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

non-gamers talking shit about video games is funnier than racism.

― g-kit, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I plan on buying guitar hero tomorrow and know I'm willingly sentencing many of my personal projects to a slow death.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

i haven't played it yet but I understand it fucking owns

why can't guitar hero BE a personal project?

― onimo, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

answer: it can

― g-kit, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

no one is saying anything is/isnt/should/shouldnt be a project or whatever. thats what you have to define yourself and itll be different for different people. ste quite clearly is saying that playstation is getting in the way of things *for him*.

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it's stopping him from updating his gamesblog and getting CS:S practice.

― g-kit, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

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me, i blame the weed.

― ian, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

massive lack of motivation at work for me. this is a problem since i'm covering for a team leader that left six weeks ago and hasn't been replaced yet! so half the time i sit and wait for problems to arise. really i just don't want to be there any more, so my own attempt at getting motivated is getting channeled towards finding a new, better-paying job.

― haitch, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

essays due in three days, birthday presents to buy, rent to pay. Have wasted the past few days waking up at 2 in the afternoon and making excuses like shops closing in a few hours, bit pointless to go out, innit? Doesn't help that the job gave me the week off, so i don't actually have a reason to leave the house during the day.

― Roz, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

to be fair the playstation is the least of my worries for motivation sapping, there's something else going on mentally. If it wasn't the playstation it would be something else.

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Roz, nasty. I hate myself for wasting days off work. The easter holiday weekend was supposed to be more productive than it turned out to be, getting up at 6pm on sunday and 2pm monday.

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

what i've done recently is throw myself into things that have been organised by other people. a writing workshop, an amateur baseball team. (does the radio show count here?) it's all stuff i love to do. they're not "my" projects, they're not even "projects", but i find that i look forward to them a LOT and that's enough for me. life's too insane for everyone to come up with everything themselves, individually - people have already done the work! catch a wave!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

That's hard for me Tracer b/c it's painful to make myself go to such things so then I just feel bad for letting other people down.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

aw really? yeah i dunno. sometimes i get nervous about baseball practice - most of the guys are better than me - but it's so much fun once i'm actually there that i just make myself go. i think the peer aspect that you say you worry about - letting people down - can actually be a force for good, too, i.e. since they're depending on you, you actually go do it!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

ste i know, hate myself for wasting time as well. I just need some kind of jolt to the system to get me started. It's just how you know how the work isn't intensely difficult so end up putting them off until the last possible second. I'm also naturally nocturnal, holidays are bad for me for this reason - without something to get up to in the morning, I will always end up waking up in the late afternoon, and not do anything for the rest of the day.

I can't wait for easter break to be over, I'm much more productive when I actually have school and work to attend to.

― Roz, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

to be fair the playstation is the least of my worries for motivation sapping, there's something else going on mentally. If it wasn't the playstation it would be something else.

I agree. To me the playstation is something to use when I lack motivation. Not a cause of the demotivation - more a handy way of entertaining myself when I can't be arsed doing anything other people would think of as more constructive.

no water and play snake on tube=bad start. water and music/book on tube=good start

600 sees reading/music as a better way to journey to work than playing games (albeit Snake). I think books/music are simply alternatives to gaming. I'm just as happy to unlock some new Pokemons in the morning as I am to finish a chapter in a book or listen to a new album.

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

onimo i think 600 was just talking about himself, not trying to create blanket rules for others!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I know, I am just talking about myself and comparing it with other people's motivation.

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a bit surprised that people still see gaming as wasting time but not reading and listening to music. To me they're all part of the same group of things I like doing more than working.

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

theres nothing wrong with gaming. im just talking about myself, and how it reflects mental state for me, i dont actually LIKE playing snake on mobile! but if feeling agitated or not right, cant concentrate on book/music. its indicative of mental state

and in regard to ste, same thing, he brought up the playstation, but as he says its obvious not the playstation itself, its indicative of mental state, and in this state he would find something else to use as a procrastinatory aid

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

just lately i've gotten much better at getting motivated and getting stuff done. i thought it was by coincidence that it was at the same time i had to get a better routine, which i really thought was because i just started a second job due to financial worries. but maybe it's not a coincidence at all! what 600 says is so true... the routine is key for me. but i totally get that sometimes you need a kickstart into it... for me (this time) that was being broke and a rental crisis in my city. and also - giving up TV during the week! i can't believe how much more time this has given me. in the past i remember this same productivity happening just after i gave up smoking pot.

i'm feeling pretty good right now, i love going to bed feeling like i've been really productive all day. there have been times in my life when i was the complete opposite... when my first honours thesis was due i remember staying up all night a couple of weeks before the submission date trying to get through the last stage of tombraider. i think sometimes you just get motivated, and sometimes you aren't, it's a bit of a cycle. but i also think you can change your life with a bit of structure. everyone is different though.

― gem, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks to you guys and this thread I've been feeling more spritely today, and last night I was having some buzzing ideas.

I'm taking up photography this year and going to see how that goes as a way to channel my creativity. My painting just isn't happening at the moment, perhaps one thing will trigger another tho.

Do you like my first attempt..

http://www.mullsports.com/images/Trooperblood_small.jpg

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

I love it!

― nathalie, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

so do i! i love dude on the far right

― gem, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

I like the composition and the lighting is fan-bloody-tastic. :-) Did you come up with the idea? What class are you exactly taking? Digital photography or WOT?

― nathalie, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

in what i guess is the modern equivalent of catholic schoolgirls 'experimenting' at college, having not really been brought up with computer games -- just coz i had no money for them and it all went into records when i did, it wasn't a "thing" -- i know that if i ever got into them now they'd pretty much take over my free time. they are my forbidden fruit, way more than drukqs.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

i can totally see catholic schoolgirls experimenting taking over my free time as well

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

i love that Ste's photography is inspired by a PS2 game. :D

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's a half a-level or similar there-of, not sure if its' just digital or basic photography but I'm assuming the former. My mate is taking it after she's finished her night course and I'm sort of jumping on the band wagon.

We've been kind of using each others talents to get ahead, she has no idea of computers and photoshop but loves photography. I'm the other way around so we keep helping each other in those areas.

The lighting is actually a row of christmas tree blue lights in a lego lighting rig. I messed around with the 'Curves' in photoshop to get it a bit less saturated, i don't know whether this is classed as cheating.

The idea is all mine yes, I just set it up this lunchtime. The bloodied warriors are from a scene from a daft animation we've been doing.

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

haha kit

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

build on what you already know, is what i say.

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Cheating? You can "cheat" with developing (regular film) so I don't see how this could be seen as any different. I mean, the endresult is what matters mostly in this case and I love it. (Truth be told, I know shit about photography and how to judge it.)

― nathalie, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear... I guess I'll be snapping in Iraq before you can say "storm the front" :( xpost

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

that one guy that quit otm, i was a catholic schoolgirl and when i went to college i soon found all my free time consumed by the dropping of sodium into water and seeing what happened next, also sometimes i would put antacids into hydrochloric acid and before i knew it half the day was gone.

― estela, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

this is exactly what i'm talking about.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

giving up TV during the week! i can't believe how much more time this has given me

I hear this a lot, I thank god I no longer care what goes on in Albert Square or Ramsay Street.

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, I wish I could get out of the Corrie/Stenders habit. I just can't manage it.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

i am so sick of doing homework, the amounts just are starting to seem ridiculous to me, i have 2 short essays due at midnight tonight (friday!) and one in russian that i'm supposed to have drafted by sunday night, and i actually have plans this weekend so it just really makes me mad. if i were a totally efficient robot person, they'd all be done in the first free moments and i'd be free of them quickly, but i'm not!

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

I brush up on my french by playing on CS servers in france. This is true!

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

what are your plans? Are they not put off-able.

xp

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

i guess that's the point tho is it.

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

*NOT* the point, i meant to say. damn

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

my plans? i have family coming up tonight & saturday, and church sunday morning and a girl scout event for a troop i lead sunday afternoon. i don't want to spend my day with family writing an essay, since it's the first time they've visited me this year, and i don't want to skip either sunday thing, but i can only get this done by sunday night if i do both of those things or stay up all night working saturday, which is not an attractive prospect. i'm going to ask for an extension but i'm pessimistic.

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh when do i graduate

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

tonight i plan to unwind by writing a couple of violin sonatas, i don't even care if no one ever hears them, i just do it for the satisfaction it brings me

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

90% of my artwork is never seen by anyone else, and curiously these are the pieces I had most fun drawing.

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

finding motivation to get out of bed in the morning and do things like exercise: discuss

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

like Tracer mentioned about, my exercise consists of a group bike ride on most Sunday mornings so as I'm not left to plan this for myself - it gets done.

Saturdays however are an entirely different story

― Ste, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, motivation. Every year between April and May I get lazy, unmotivated, angry, worthless and depressed, god knows why. I conjecture it's because of the clocks moving around, but since it doesn't seem to affect anyone else this can't be true. I've started yoga and eating properly and sleeping regularly, all to no avail. I know I need to cut down on the w33d, but it's really not excessive, a joint a night?

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

if i don't get a full night's sleep, there's no way i'm getting up extra early to exercise, so i do it in the afternoon or not at all if i'm very busy (and i am busy, but grateful that my schedule's flexible enough that i can run at 4 pm sometimes, i will miss that in the working world). i really feel like sleeping 8 hours a night 5 days a week would totally replenish all my motivation, but there's no way i can imagine to make myself efficient enough that that could happen besides cutting out all social contact or something.

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think excessive is the right word but if you have tendencies towards depression than any such depressants (weed, alcohol) are bad. (says a depressed person who likes her drink.)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

is THC a depressant?

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

yes.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

alcohol definitely kills motivation, for me anyhow. even just 3 or 4 beers once a week has a big difference to none, ever.

― Ronan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

that's surprising! it certianly doesn't depress inhibitions in the same way as alkyhole. o xpost

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

that's not what "depressant" means

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
I think the depressant category means it depresses your central nervous system. which can cause problems if you already have brain chemicals that don't play nice.

yes drink causes big problems with my motivation. I don't have trouble abstaining as long as others aren't drinking. If my boyfriend for example is having a beer, well all is lost.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

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too much to think about, too much to say, no motivation to do either - the 'totally unmotivated' thread