Going for a week without AntiDepressants

Post #3,307 by orion 7/31/01 6:24:05 PM Reply	Going for a week without AntiDepressants My doctor wants to see how I do for one week without any AntiDepressants. Wish me luck. Any ideas on how to combat depression drug-free? I tried many before like: Biofeedback Yoga Relaxation Therapy Hobbies Excercise Changes in Diet (ate more veggies and green veggies) Multi-Vitamins (Folic Acid and other goodies) There are others I tried, but I didn't seem to get any results. "I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!" Moe Howard
Post #3,314 by addison 7/31/01 8:30:28 PM Reply	Find something you like. THat's always been how I dealt with it. Find something you like, and go do it. Go fishing. Take a flying lesson. (you can't get your medical for a while with those drugs in the system, but you don't need that til you solo, so you can take lessons with the CFI in the right seat). Go to a baseball game. Whatever. Just pick stuff that's fun to do, and don't worry about it. Find a solution. Started your project yet? Addison
Post #3,395 by orion 8/1/01 9:45:16 AM Reply	My project It should just be a simple checkbook balancer program. I haven't started the analysis and design on it yet. I want to get something that can help the average person balance their checkbook without having to pay a hefty price for bloatware. I haven't decided what language to do it in yet, but as a challenge I may do more than one version of it in different languages. First VB, then Pascal/Kylix or C++. I'll also have to research the licensing, I was thinking of Open Sourced, but not sure if GPL or BSD would be better. Or maybe I can just make it commercial and give them the source if they pay for it? "I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!" Moe Howard
Post #3,408 by addison 8/1/01 10:20:23 AM Reply	Stop delaying. I'll also have to research the licensing, No, you don't. Don't even start that til you have at least an Alpha candidate for release. You don't need to worry with what license. That's for later. Code now. Whatever you want to do, then do it. Start it. Set up the directories, the flowcharts, however you want to. Do a milestone list of what you want to accomplish - that's all productive. Worrying about licensing isn't (right now). So get busy with the project, and have fun, and see if that helps. Addison
Post #4,164 by orion 8/8/01 6:38:32 AM Reply	Put on hold I haven't done anything on it, and am putting it on hold until I get better medically. I will consider it when I am starting to recover. "I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!" Moe Howard
Post #4,245 by addison 8/8/01 3:24:02 PM Reply	Missing the point. Sure, you have to prioritize, but until you SET some firm dates, it will always be delayed. And I think you might learn a lot, not just about programming, but about how to set those dates, how to get stuff done - and I think that might help on the depression front, as well. Why would you wait? What medically is keeping you from coding, rather than typing? Addison
Post #3,413 by jlalexander 8/1/01 10:32:28 AM Reply	Yeah... The best way is to just dive in. Sure, get a rough draft of architecture and how you want to design it. But, don't get bogged down in it. Next thing you know you'll get down on yourself because there's so much design work to do. Design a little, code it, design some more, code it, etc... keeps you busy on the project, and keeps you from getting bogged down in the mire of design. Don't get me wrong, if it's a huge project with many team members, design is good. But, in the case of solo programming and smaller projects, you have to KISS. Just my .02, -Jason ---- My pid is Inigo Montoya. You "killed -9" my parent process. Prepare to vi.
Post #3,422 by DonRichards 8/1/01 11:04:55 AM Reply	Combatting depression Pleasure seems like a good strategy. Go to a comedy club, act gooofy, buy an ice cream cone, fly a kite, go skinny-dipping, do something nice for sombody else, have some meaningless sex (or meaningful), take a walk in the park, get a puppy, volunteer for a literacy program. Just have fun dude. "When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead. It's given me the strangest collection of hats"
Post #3,505 by Fearless Freep 8/1/01 5:56:28 PM Reply	Bummer, dude ...oh wait...bad answer Jay O'Connor "Going places unmapped to do things unplanned to people unsuspecting"

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