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for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 9

My pleasant activities are playing golf and hiking in nature. I am still trying to find out the pleasant ones in winter, particularly this year.

for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 2508

Some of my favorites are reading, sewing and lounging around on a warm sunny day..

Red.

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Original Post by: Ashley - Health Educator
According to some experts, depression is caused by a lack of pleasant activities. What are pleasant activities? Pleasant activities are simply things you like to do.

The basic idea is that when people are not depressed, their lives are made up of a wide variety of activities, some pleasant and positive, some unpleasant and negative, and some neutral. According to the theory, in order to feel better you need to have at least some positive activities in your life. Also, people stay depressed because they have at least the usual share of unpleasant activities but not enough pleasant activities. One of the solutions to overcoming depression is to try to schedule more positive and pleasant events in your life; this will help to get the balance between pleasant and unpleasant activities closer to what it is for people who aren’t depressed.

One of your most important jobs in this program is to take the risk of actually testing some of your predictions about what will happen if you try to do something pleasant. Because any experiment can go wrong, we’ll want you to repeat some experiments to see what happens each time. You don’t have to believe that you’ll enjoy the activity; you just have to be willing to try and see what happens. Think of yourself as a scientist who is performing experiments on your moods.

If you’re having some trouble coming up with some activities, here’s a list of some simple activities to get you started:

Going for a walk
Getting dressed up
Meeting someone new
Going to a concert
Having coffee with a friend
Going shopping for myself
Going to the beach
Playing golf
Climbing
Reading sacred books
Going to see a sports event

What pleasant activities do you enjoy?

Bumping this thread topic up for all the new members. It was started by Ashley one of the Educators from The DC Support Team....

Enjoy..

Red.

for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1853

Hi Eleveno,

Thanks for the reminder. You are absolutely right - we often try to fight feelings like sadness and depression, but it is often necessary to sit with these emotions in order to understand and get through them as opposed to burying them within ourselves.

~m, glad to hear you are feeling better today!

Vincenza, Health Educator

for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1022

Thanks Eleveno... Yes, I am feeling better today. Thank you also for sharing the idea that sometimes it is useful to just go ahead and feel depressed. I forget that. I'm always fighting it so hard! Fight or flight. Beat it back or run away. Time to learn to tolerate some discomfort and allow myself to just b e a l i t t l e b i t d e p r e s s e d and see what happens.

for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 619

Hi ~m,

I think pleasant activities are really nice but sometimes I also think it is useful to have a break and allow oneself to feel depressed.

Hope you are feeling better now.

for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1022

When depressed it IS hard to remember how important fun activities are... but I find it even more difficult to actually make myself do something about it. I even have a long list of pleasant activities ready to choose from, but still I balk. Having a low Monday today... knowing I need to do something fun... but can't move. Just feeling really sad today. Asking myself what's the easiest fun thing I can do. Still blank. Any suggestions on how to get moving when you just ... can't?

for 11 år siden 0 +0 / -0 619

Hi Ashley,

Pleasant acrivities are really very important and essential to control depression. I found it one of the most important part of CBT one can do to help himself. And it is so easy to forget it when one feels more depressed but the payoff is huge.

Some of my favorite pleasant activities include: time with family and friends, going out for a weekend and travelling by train.

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According to some experts, depression is caused by a lack of pleasant activities. What are pleasant activities? Pleasant activities are simply things you like to do.

The basic idea is that when people are not depressed, their lives are made up of a wide variety of activities, some pleasant and positive, some unpleasant and negative, and some neutral. According to the theory, in order to feel better you need to have at least some positive activities in your life. Also, people stay depressed because they have at least the usual share of unpleasant activities but not enough pleasant activities. One of the solutions to overcoming depression is to try to schedule more positive and pleasant events in your life; this will help to get the balance between pleasant and unpleasant activities closer to what it is for people who aren’t depressed.

One of your most important jobs in this program is to take the risk of actually testing some of your predictions about what will happen if you try to do something pleasant. Because any experiment can go wrong, we’ll want you to repeat some experiments to see what happens each time. You don’t have to believe that you’ll enjoy the activity; you just have to be willing to try and see what happens. Think of yourself as a scientist who is performing experiments on your moods.

If you’re having some trouble coming up with some activities, here’s a list of some simple activities to get you started:

Going for a walk
Getting dressed up
Meeting someone new
Going to a concert
Having coffee with a friend
Going shopping for myself
Going to the beach
Playing golf
Climbing
Reading sacred books

Going to see a sports event

What pleasant activities do you enjoy?

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