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Originally Posted by nekokami
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3 - Creative projects - as long as I haven't promised the results to anyone. (Otherwise it becomes another obligation.)
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I hear that, though I tend to promise the results to myself rather than anyone else. I've too many projects and ideas that I've barely started, or not started, only to stall. That's dreadfully disappointing.
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4 - Meditation... but sometimes it's hard to focus, if I'm really stressed. I have a biofeedback program (The Journey to Wild Divine) that has helped with this a lot. That was how I discovered that creative projects help so well.
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My Dad used meditation to aid with the stresses and depressions of his metastasised prostate cancer. I think it was of great use to him, and he seemed to end up with some kind of weird combination/mash-up of Buddhism and Catholic Anglicanism at the end. I have his meditation stool now, though I don't use it (I don't meditate).
It was only years after he died that we considered that Dad may have been dealing with depression, and that his means of dealing with it was his long-distance running, which he practised to an obsessive degree (later on in conjunction with cycling and swimming, and inevitable competition (against himself, knowing Dad) in triathlons). Mum is "mum" on such subjects mostly, and cannot be comfortably drawn on the subject.
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6 - Meds - I don't like this at all, but the anxiety attacks and depression got bad enough at one point that I had to really look at this option.
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I avoid medications, often even in the midst of migraine (though I concede I've just taken two Panadeine for my current migraine - damned things seem to be on a roll lately). Please don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that medication is wrong at all, it's just that I'm distrustful and slightly ego-paranoid. I fear side-effects of all drugs, and suspicious over things that modify my brain-chemistry/mind. It is a personal (and not necessarily rational) choice - not a moral position I'm taking. I also distrust pharmaceutical companies.
Cheers,
Marc