Depressed and riding a bike?

[MikeyC]

Never a good combination. Got a bit, how shall we say... hurt, by a woman unsurprisingly... was a bit down, had a mixture of sadness and anger... all happened late last night. Woke up this morning, still feeling the same emotions... got on the bike and rode to work.

Dont try riding a bike when your angry.... you just wanna kill everyone! Pity the person who cuts you up too!!! I found that I simply did not care, I dont think its such a good idea to ride when your depressed!

[cqueen]

chin up mate! she dont deserve you anyway

[gauloises]

I often find riding whilst being sad, depressed and mostly down. Is the best way for me to get my mind off of things that are at an issue im my life (riding gets rid of them types of feelings).

Cheer up



S.L
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[MikeyC]

Now im sitting at work and posting this, I dont actually feel that upset, just a bit low.... you know when nothing seems to go right, even the smallest of things? I guess life has this habit of making you reach rock bottom before you can find some happiness?

[timmya]

[MikeyC]

We always hang on to this tiny bit of hope that the next woman we meet is gonna different from the last... we wouldn't possibly think most women are all the same......oh how disappointed we get! lol!

[Barker-CBR 600]

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[Method]

[headlamp]

I'm glad I'm not in the office today - it would be very gloomy....no the real reason why you are depressed is that you know you are going to be missing the best party night in the West End for 20 years on Saturday!!
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[lap_time]

Always best to check your emotions at the door if you're going out riding - and that goes for any extremes - you just wont think straight!

Wish I could follow my own advice!
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[MikeyC]

[Gazdaman]

I went out on my bike after a fairly good argument with my girlfriend.

I find it clears my head, either way the fucker broke down. Which didn't restore my faith in my bike!

So there I was, pissed off, standing at the side of the road with my tool kit out.

Gaz

[mchaggis]

Around Christmas time at uni, when I was seriously snowed under with work (mainly the MIRA testing week if anyone remembers me posting about that) and seriously paranoid about failing university, dropping out and letting people down, I almost couldn't go on a ride without thinking about what will happen if I just don't bother cornering. It was a very bad condition to be in.

Overworked, overstressed, staring failure in the face (or certainly the paranoia about it), crappy weather, slimey roads, hardly even seeing the sun for being stuck in computer labs for 14 hours a day, probably my worst time at uni. Riding never helped. Time is the only true healer for most things, even if it doesn't get better, you'll learn to cope with it.
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[Villers]

Ive been through that particular grinder too mate.

Thats the way it works, your with a girl and you think its wonderful. You split up and think you will never find anyone like that again. Then you find someone who is so much better that you forget ll about the first one. You split up and then find another one thats EVEN better and this goes on and on until one day you finally think 'How much bigger can these girls breasts get?'

Anyway, some of you will know that a woman knocked me and my bike over and is now lying about it. Im fed up, its hanging over me like a cloud. If she wins then my biking career is over, Im aiming for bigger things and the insurance will cripple me. Ridng home today, in the rain, was awful. The hire bike has shit tyres and slides everywhere on roundabouts. I miss my CBR, and Ive got to wait weeks for it to get sorted out. Im starting to fall out with myself and biking. Im losing my passion for the only thing thats made me happy for the last year, even when im on the bike Im fed up now, all because of one bitch.

Hopefully in a month or two it will be sorted and I will win the case. Thens its a Mille for villers, and a year to wait for an injury claim.

anyway thanks for listening.
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[-Savage-]

Ive always found my bike to be a release from anything in my life. If im feeling down, angry, or hungover . Going out for quick blast along the roads sorts things out.
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[Visitor Q]

I must admit the only way i could see me committing suicide is 'running wide on a left' repeatedly at very very high speeds until something was in the way.

To be honest thought it would take alot to get to that stage, but when im arsed off i will go from A - B as fast as humanely possible, proper road racing agressive driving. Never good. Hasnt happened on the cbr properly yet, i dont want it to tbh. I used to be amazingly dangerous just on the 50, 125 or 350 when i got in that mood. 100 bhp ... not so good.

That said, being in that state and listening to heavy heavy rock probably exascerbates it, so id avoid that too.

Rides like that i wish i had a tank cam

Edit: @ Marjay,
Good thinking batman

Yeh when depressed, a nice quiet cruise always perks me up. But i still find i get very volatile. With me depression leads to anger very very quickly, must be the irish in me or summit. I tend to wallow aswell, infact im in a very wallowy mood today and compared to my usual riding i was 100 times more sedate. just kept with traffic, barely overtook and was happy to just lollop along in the middle lane of the m'way at 80 odd.

Anyone else become uber polite when a bit depressed? Let ALL the cars past, nicely courteous, make sure NO ONE gets upset by your behaviour (foot high clutch up... with a car a mile down the road on the incoming carraigeway... not for me! etc)

I find having music of an emo/cheesy disposition to croon along with usually helps too. Just try to carry on caring, im sure weve all at some point dabbled in some depressed risk taking/truck headlight staring etc. I dont know if i speak for all, but usually you subconsciously save yourself. What would worry me is being abit hacked off about a girl (as i am now aswell), binning your bike into something in a pissy whinge, and losing the only thing cheering you up.
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[G]

In the past I've sometimes found that riding can almost be a kind of 'meditation' - as you're focused on that and nothing else. Often track riding is like this for me.

However if you're in too bad a mood it's easy to start pushing a bit to make yourself concentrate on the riding, but end up still generally being depressed and riding way faster than you should be - a bad thing.

[MarJay]

I would say that there appears to be some confusion here between depression and anger.

I for one have ridden when feeling in the depths of despair and incandescent with rage.

The rage was definitely bad for my health.

When I'm feeling really low, if the weather is good (sometimes when it isn't actually) I don't think I've ever been for a ride that has failed to make me feel better...

Don't ride when angry IMO.
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[Andy C]

when im sad or got somthing on my mind that dont want to and pissing me off i go for a ride i have a 20min route thought a village near me and roads are pritty easy, it gets my mind off everything and come back and it doesnt seem to bad anymore!

The best thing when i have girl trouble..and this happens to much!!wanting more than one girl is my problem i think!
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[Sparks!]

I'm kind of glad I don't have a [working] bike at the minute. Would almost certainly hurt myself. Seem to be doing a good enough job without a bike let alone wiht one lol
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[minesweeper]

Few years back i drove my nsr over a cattle grid at 70 after an arguement with my mrs, wouldnt recommend it...... swear it rattled loose a few teeth....

Matt

[Type_Mo]

Chin up mate! BTW - gotta link up soon so i can check ur bike out
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[jamie192]

well, at least u can sit and work and post this, i got sacked because of company restructuring. they actually told me i was one of the best, they got rid of all there part time staff. girls will come and go man, thats life, chin up and stay safe on ya bike!
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[Zen Dog]

Biking always seems to cheer me up when im down, but i find riding when you are angry or frustrated a really bad plan unless you can safely ride like a lunatic (i.e. empty roads, national limits etc.).

I went out the other day on the bike feeling really frustrated. I really felt i needed that release you get from just opening the bike up and letting it howl.

But i went out at 6pm during rush hour, with endless traffic in both directions, tractors, coaches and lorries blocking all the filtering possibilities etc etc. I got so frustrated i ended up just riding like a complete gimp, stupid overtakes, flagrant speeding etc. In the end i just went home before i got myself killed.

3 hours later the roads were calm, i went out and concentrated my riding on smoothness and perfect positioning, and the whole experience was deeply relaxing.

Zen Dog
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