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Post by Lance Uppercut on Oct 10, 2023 1:00:06 GMT -5
I don’t want to say something “pulled me out of depression” as depression is a loaded word.
But yeah, I remember a thread where someone mentioned how Impractical jokers was a show they got into at a low point in their life and they have a lot of favorable memories of that show due to it.
I have similar experiences. Around 2009, I was feeling really down for reasons I don’t want to get into. I just remember the only thing giving me comfort and eventually put me back in a good mood was watching Chuck and Community over and over.
I graduated college a year earlier, had no idea what to do, and would take community college classes for fun, so it really resonated with me. I felt like a mix of Jeff and Pierce, and my weird obsession with tv, I could resonate with Abed.
Chuck was also a story about a guy whose life fizzled out and had no idea what to do as well, so that resonated with me as well.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 10, 2023 2:00:34 GMT -5
Parks and Rec kept me from going crazy when Covid knocked me on my ass for three weeks a couple of years back.
And back in 2010 I went through an absolutely horrific breakup, and playing Red Dead Redemption solidly for almost the entire year following numbed the pain.
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Post by ayumidah on Oct 10, 2023 2:11:05 GMT -5
My father passed in 2008, and Supernatural helped me through. I think it felt relatable in a way because the brothers were mourning John at the time as well.
wrestling has helped give me other things to focus on during low points quite a few times in my life.
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 10, 2023 2:13:17 GMT -5
No specific examples from me, but "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Oct 10, 2023 5:01:26 GMT -5
Critical Role and it's thousands of hours of content desperately helped me stay strong during the pandemic lock down. That and Persona 5 Royal.
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Post by Derk! on Oct 10, 2023 6:48:59 GMT -5
BTE and AEW in general helped keep me sane during the pandemic.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 10, 2023 7:01:42 GMT -5
movies: Hot Fuzz Forgetting Sarah Marshall Monty Python and the Holy Grail Friday the 13th Par 4 specifically
Albums: Agalloch - The Mantle Deafheaven - Sunbather Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Comics: Transmetropolitan Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Games: the Suikoden franchise Tetris
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 10, 2023 7:07:01 GMT -5
I remember when my fiance started self-destructing and destroyed our relationship I started getting really into the Stargate shows.
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Post by Gunhaver on Oct 10, 2023 9:33:33 GMT -5
At a point where several major changes occurred at once and I felt powerless to change things, there was ALF.
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Post by Bobeddy on Oct 10, 2023 9:42:15 GMT -5
About a decade ago I was in my early 20's, was in my final year of college and was unsure if I'd done the right course and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I was studying and working part-time as a dishwasher in a restaurant, so I was stressed, tired and fed up. A lot of the media I was consuming at the time was fairly dark and bleak so at this particular low point, as silly as it sounds, watching something as overbearingly wholesome and optimistic as MLP:FiM actually helped a great deal. No specific examples from me, but "Mystery Science Theater 3000". MST3K was another show I discovered during college. I've strong nostalgia of watching full episodes late at night on YouTube feeling a sense of nostalgia for the aesthetic and vibe of the show. So double-nostalgia for me. Similarly, during that first year or so of the pandemic when lockdowns were strictly enforced here in Ireland, having NXT and AEW to watch was something to look forward to every week.
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Post by thechase on Oct 10, 2023 9:49:07 GMT -5
1999 (first bout with depression after being rejected by college)
Power Rangers In Space Space Ghost: Coast 2 Coast Dexter's Lab Powerpuff Girls Johnny Bravo Sunset Beach Hercules and Xena Stargate SG-1 Pokemon (Indigo League)
2010 (mental health breakdown)
A daily dose of Pre-School CITV Sam and Mark's TMI Friday Tracey Beaker Returns Dani's House Doctor Who Sarah Jane Adventures Toy Story 3
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 10, 2023 10:12:20 GMT -5
Rocket to Russia side 1 Damaged entire album UHF,the movie not the second dial on the TV Robert E Howard's Conan the Barbarian Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Post by agent817 on Oct 10, 2023 10:18:44 GMT -5
I went through a tough time not long ago. I went through a bit of a mental health breakdown mixed with depression. How it happened was a long story. I know back in March, I binged on a lot of movies. I also went for long walks. One of the days that I walked I listened to Tha Dogg Pound's "Dogg Food." I listened to a lot of hardcore rap as it helped comfort me. That often helps, particularly West Coast rap, along with other stuff like Bone Thugs.
Then came the end of the semester when I became a recluse because of some other related things to those issues. I listened to a lot of rap like before. One of the things that helped was watching "Speed." I love that movie. It never gets old for me.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Oct 10, 2023 10:47:38 GMT -5
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
Not anything depression-related but I found out about the show one month after I hastily returned from Japan from a research trip for my master thesis due to 3/11 happening in Japan. After I returned I was in a funk due to the German media making it seem like Japan would be close to being lost forever, making me worried about my future job prospects having studied Japan Studies and being in general in a sad mood.
That's when a certain thread on FAN opened, I decided to check out the show...and it led to probably the happiest 9 years of my life so far.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 10, 2023 10:55:16 GMT -5
Parks and Rec kept me from going crazy when Covid knocked me on my ass for three weeks a couple of years back. I never had covid, but when the lockdown was going on, I found Parks and Rec to be something of a warm comfy blanket to relax under
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Post by schma on Oct 10, 2023 12:46:58 GMT -5
This wasn't a huge comfort, but I was roughly the same age as the characters in How I Met Your Mother. So when they were struggling with entering their 30s and life not having turned out the way they thought, their plans not going how they'd hoped, etc, I could really relate. It was nice to see characters being portrayed with similar struggles.
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 10, 2023 13:30:26 GMT -5
Friends and Buffy helped me through the more...turbulent times of adolescence.
2010 was the roughest year I've had so far in my personal life, and as daft as it sounds, TNA in their prime LOLTNA era as well as this place to riff on it kept me sane.
Similarly AEW both softened the blow of lockdown a few years back and rekindled my love of wrestling again.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 10, 2023 13:35:30 GMT -5
Yes it'll mostly refer to That Year....
While we couldn't go out a lot, we binged all of Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated. Rewatched various YouTubers: AVGN, Funny or Die...
We also binged a series of YT videos devoted to presenting all the MST3K host segments, season by season.
Concentration (the '70s version with Jack Narz) just started on Buzzr.
Think I went back to watching some Raccoons too.
I tried various stuff on Netflix, most notably The Stranger and Tiger you-know-who. There was a nice Masters of the Universe documentary there too.
As things went back and forth in the subsequent recent years, I've found similar in Ghosts (both versions) and What We Do In The Shadows. Any rarities that Buzzr was presenting (Match Game/Hollywood Squares, Whew!).
I guess TV and gaming helped a lot when I was really younger. I had tops one outside-of-school friend and I was bullied/misunderstood. I was happy when watching all my favorite stuff or listening to songs I liked.
Shows that remind me of my original house when I was starting grade school give me comfort in general. This is how things like short-lived 1983 game shows, The Raccoons, He-Man, Laugh-In, various sitcoms that local stations showed reruns of, Popeye shorts, etc. came to have sentimental value.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Oct 10, 2023 14:23:06 GMT -5
My “comfort” movies when I feel crummy? Die Hard, Total Recall 1990, the Back To The Future trilogy, a lot of MCU stuff like Guardians, Thor Ragnarok and Winter Soldier, Disney films like Aladdin, Zootopia, Emperor’s New Groove and Lilo & Stitch, Talledega Nights, Blues Brothers, Good Burger, UHF, Austin Powers 1, Friday, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, some of the camper Bond films like Goldeneye, Octopussy, Live and Let Die, etc.
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Post by Soultastic on Oct 10, 2023 15:38:36 GMT -5
I got into One Piece as I was having a crisis over what the f*** I was gonna do with my life. I can't express how much I needed it.
Also, there's been waaay to many times that I've been down in the dumps and then newLEGACYinc just saved the day. The pandemic lockdown was killing me and then boom, Kingiest of the Ringiest.
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