I've been dealing with depression a lot since I quit drinking. I've found that exercise does help, but for me it has to be exercise that I actually enjoy. I've been going for walks. I like exploring different parts of my neighborhood and now that I've been doing it a while I can cover 4 or 5 miles in a day! Being in better shape gives me more energy and I actually feel like getting up and doing something instead of just vegging out in front of the TV for hours

I've also found that just cleaning my space has been really helpful. I let my house turn into a disgusting mess when my depression was at it's worst, and the act of tidying it all up helped improve my mood a lot. Having actual space to work and everything where its supposed to be has made me much more productive artistically too. Seeing a mess every day was just making me more depressed.

Finding a new hobby that you have to learn about and get better at can really help with getting the creative process going too.

I hope this is helpful. I know the same things don't always work for everyone, but I'm in a much better place than I was 2 years ago now

I don't know if we're still doing the beans thing or not, but I'll upvote the baked beans gaming dice because they are awesome lol

I just put a big rubber band around my ID, my debit card, my laundry card and a little cash!

Not true! I stopped carrying a wallet almost 2 years ago!

When the scammers spoof numbers they usually just get a block of random numbers that are local to where they are calling, then they just try them one at a time. They pick numbers that look local because people are more likely to answer.

They never actually bother verifying whose number they're using though, so it frequently results in them calling from the persons own number who they are trying to scam, local businesses, and even local government numbers.

I work for the phone company and I've frequently gotten calls from people telling me someone just called them from their own number lol

So three men kept her trapped in a car for 3 hours and spent the entire time basically saying how much they want to gang bang her.

She apparently felt resigned to put up with this up to the point that it escalated to one of you actually putting your hands on her, at which point she quite understandably felt that she was in real physical danger and could not longer keep up pretending that any of this was ok

When you realized she was still clearly traumatized by this event a week later you patted her on the head like she was a wayward puppy so she would know how silly she was being.

This is either fake or you are the most clueless misogynist in the world

I hope for her sake that this story is rage bait

Either way you are clearly a gigantic gaping asshole

I just recently took up cross stitching. You can learn all the basics for free on YouTube and there are tons of cross stitching communities online and there are tons of free patterns online too. All the supplies you need at first are some thread, some Aida cloth and needles. When I started I got a stitching hoop too I think my total investment was about $20.

Boost finally stopped working last week. The dev says he's making a version of Boost for Lemmy though!

I see some coward has added a play button to it... It's not really Hamster Dance unless it plays on incessantly at full volume while your parents try to figure out how to make it stop

4500 students housed in one building and 94% of them would not even have a window to look out of...and he seems to think it will be like "being on a cruise ship"

That should end well

Please don't allow AI posts. If we start having AI posts this place will basically turn into a fan art page.

I'm the same age as my tongue, and a bit older than my teeth