This topic came to mind because I enjoy the task of shoveling snow during the winter, and I feel slightly off since I've only had to shovel once. Dealing with snow usually balances out the warmer months, when I garden and do yard work. That mostly entails pulling invasive weeds out from my yard, which I then let dry and use to start fires. This is opposed to my neighbors who use chemicals to kill whatever they don't want growing, then ask me how I get my lawn looking so healthy.

There's also riding bmx, hiking, golfing, and looking at pictures of cats, obvi.

What does everyone do to relax their mind and body? I'm sure everyone on this site can agree that music is satisfying in various degrees. What else do you find soothing?

Jerk off.
Do drugs/drink.

Taking the lives of helpless woodland creatures then preparing them into delicious meals.

Cleaning guns. No idea why, but it relaxes me.

Then of course, the obvious various intoxicants.

+1. One thing I sometimes miss about growing up in my parents house during the winter.

Always hated gardening though.

Smoking a bowl and going for a run, followed by yoga, followed by a hot shower

Star Trek: TNG is like a pacifier

Cleaning, helping people organize or pack, pretending to be that crabby bitch from What Not to Wear and helping people clean out their wardrobes

Jerking on

it's the solvents.

Hooker head.

everything everybody has mentioned, except i wish i had a gun to clean. video games.

also time-travel in tabletop RPGs.

This sums it up for me

Changing guitar strings. Don't know why, this used to aggravate the shit outta me, now its therapeutic. Taking a shit always relaxes me, to the point of sleeping on the can sometimes

my wardrobe does need a purge, i have one too many dragonforce and goatwhore shirts.

Actually, this does the exact opposite cause when something doesn't go my way, I get frustrated lol

Hit yourself in the head with a stick until you can't.

Agreed. Taking a shit at work is the closest I'm going to get to a george costanza desk nap. And changing strings on a 7 string bass is like an all-afternoon zen session.

ark bring it all to my house, I'll turn the rejects into throw pillows

same

play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night until my eyes fall out.

Mixing bands recordings
Hiking and lifting weights
Music
Being around my gf

Preparing imaginary monsters for my friends to imaginarily slaughter with imagination swords.

also firin mah troll lazer

Word son

pull ups with just my middle fingers, i try to do 70 everyday.


seriously.

make things in the shop. do circus-y stuff. avoid the internet. play loud music and attempt to keep my library of hoarded recycled crap organized: a pile for everything, and everything in its pile.

you do have a gun to clean. JERK OFF!

ITT: a lot of ineffective coping mechanisms.

doping > coping

'cause dope and booze don't help to hide

meditating.

not going on rttp

Perpetually trolling.

shoot people,not dope.

My relaxation technique was always to bust a fat load on Samantha's Tits

Get your gangrenous semen the fukkattaheyah...

There's always zombie porn

watching silent movies on mute while playing records. slapping women. one-fingered push-ups. seriously.

Been watching TNG for the past few months, almost done with it.

Huffing shit seems to make me feel better.

I thought this was about anal.

THAT WAS THE JOKE BRO

sucking on/playing with tits is always relaxing to me.

I really like drawing.

Listening to music is about the only thing that relaxes me, that and exercise of any kind. Anything other than that is just something else that makes me anxious, stressed, agrivated and makes it hard to stay sober/clean. :\\

whats up with exercise relaxing people? I mean i like excercise but it suuuuuucks.

http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/exercise-depression

depression is for faggots.

^^ yup

everyone gets sad and bummed out, calling it a 'condition' like depression is just making excuses and using it as a crutch. Excercise to be healthier or gtfo. Also on that note, only recreational drugs are real.

Depression is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. It has nothing to do with people making excuses, although a lot of pseudo-depressed FB idiots do.
I don't know if you're serious or not, but real depression isn't to be fucked around with.

it's kind of like the whole 'its not your kids fault hes doing bad in school, he has a DISORDER.' fuck that shit, all it does is allow the person to avoid being accountable for sucking at school. your kid doesnt have some made up ADD bulshit, he just hates school and needs a smack to remind him not to fuck around.

Theyve been telling me my whole life Im clinically depressed. Fuck all that bullshit, life isnt that hard.

Im not saying it isnt a real thing, Ive just seen too many people whine about how theres nothing they can do about their shitty life because they have 'chemical imbalances' instead of just manning the fuck up, being accountable, and making the changes that need to be made to have the life they want. If a shithole person like me can do it, anyone can.

I've got low-level drepression (dysthymic disorder) and fucking love it. It makes everything negative and makes writing music easier.

I get hungover depression, but then I eat a cheeseburger and it all works out.

The link I shared was to show that exercise releases endorphins, but nice off-topic discussion. Carry on, and I hope you come to terms with your condition Rossi.

ITT: a goofy kid asks me to slap him

My ex made me get on Paxil. FUCK THAT. sucked hard.

ITT: some sad kid gets butthurt

To release endorphins, all yous gotta do is bite into a Habanero Pepper. Noobs.

I need to golf more.

me too

seriously alex, please, pleeeeeease say that to my face.

Why did this upset you, Ross?

It's hard to relax under the gaze of that dinosaur

why do you always got to get butthurt?

He is probably mad because it comes off as condescending. Nothing new here, move along folks.

well that makes sense, ok

took a run and a cooldown after work, vaped up and put on champion's league soccer. THAT SHIT WORKED.

I agree with there being too many people claiming they're "depressed" just because they had a bad day, but true depression is a neurochemical state as aril said. That difference is one of the things I use for lyrical content when writing songs. And sorry Ross, that was a romney thing for me to say and didn't mean to insult you.

lol!

Chemical imbalance = crazy

Gimme some of that olde time stigma.

me too. besides music, painting really helps. find a nice girl to exercise with
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