Post-potter Depression?, Tips to get through it in real life and on the Lounge |
 Jul 23 2007, 06:08 AM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 84 Joined: 2:45am July 21, 2005 Location: Finland  |
I've just noticed that many people seem to feel like they've lost their old friend or something, so I thought it could be nice to collect tips for them to survive it!
Here are some of mine: Get fresh air (not after re-reading or posting just a couple more times - NOW). An hour of walking, listening some music and clearing your head always helps. Call to a friend or a family member and disuss anything non-reated to Potter. It's good to remember there are still loving people and happiness out there. Have a Potter-free day. Stay away from the Lounge, from the books, from the movies... Gives a little distance and perspective. Sleep. 48h of non-stop reading makes anyone feel bad. Things always seem more simple after prosessing them while sleeping. Remember you're not alone. There are people in here to discuss anything with. Not trying to play a shrink or anything,just that these things have helped me at times when it has felt like world is never gonna be the same. -Emilia- --------------------  |
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Jul 23 2007, 06:19 AM
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Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner Posts: 226 Joined: 2:43pm October 25, 2005 Location: Baltimore, MD USA |
I've got another one..
Ignore DH.  Pretend it didn't happen. Lol. I mean.. None of this stuff is real anyway  It's ok to be delusional... *pats self on back*Personally, i plan to read fanfic til my eyeballs bleed.. -------------------- |
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Jul 23 2007, 06:27 AM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 19 Joined: 1:17am July 22, 2007 |
Funny, i've done the exact opposite and i feel it working. I read the book twice and started writing a fan fiction version of what an eighth book would be like and feel alot better. The writing was able to release some of my feelings it would seem.
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Jul 23 2007, 09:46 AM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 327 Joined: 8:25am July 22, 2005 Location: Having a candlelight dinner with Lucius |
Aaaah, luckily we have all those fan-fiction writers who will continue the epic saga of HP...
 Write people, write please 
-------------------- 'Don't let the Muggles get you down!'
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Jul 23 2007, 09:54 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 277 Joined: 4:50pm March 28, 2007 |
its just so reassuring that the fandom isn't "ending"--there are still melissa and john and sue and leakylounge potttercast and (if you're not against it) emerson and mugglecast! That has helped me the most.
And remember friendship and love are immortal-- as JKR always points out! Harry potter will never die
-------------------- ~ "Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing" ~ --Cassandra Mortmain Avatar "Damien Hirst's The Magical Impossibility of Anything Much in the Mind of a Pickled Grindylow" by Red Scharlach |
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Jul 23 2007, 09:56 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 19 Joined: 7:28pm March 6, 2007 Location: Ravenclaw Tower |
Pottercast, Pottercast, Pottercast!
(as soon as we can, that is...) -------------------- "Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans --"
--Minerva McGonagall |
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Jul 23 2007, 10:08 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 41 Joined: 12:03pm June 9, 2005 Location: VA ^_^ |
aww to bad I dint read this two day ago! am still kind of sick from reading none stop already! haha but am gethign better now that I finish and try not to think about it, tough I did get realy frustrated with the peopl lazy enoph not to read it that ask me if potter dies and naging me to tell me about it! god! what a nightmare!
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Jul 24 2007, 03:58 AM
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Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 542 Joined: 7:51pm July 16, 2005 Location: Singing a heartbreaking serenade in front of Snape's door  |
Well... I'll start reading the book again tonight.
English is not my mother tongue, maybe I'll find out many things I didn't notice the first time? (OK, OK, I don't think so... but I don't have better ideas for the moment!) -------------------- [Sorry for my english, it's not my mother tongue]
"The Bravest Man I Ever Knew"  The Prince's Tale I'm not the author: Phoenixproductions05's work. |
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Jul 24 2007, 02:08 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 63 Joined: 8:16pm December 23, 2006 Location: San Jose, CA |
There are movies and conferences and scholarly essays and plenty of hero's journey fiction.
Plus some lovely Harry Potter parodies
-------------------- Valerie Frankel, author of Henry Potty and the Pet Rock: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody. www.HarryPotterParody.com
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Jul 24 2007, 06:12 PM
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Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 522 Joined: 7:18pm April 29, 2007 Location: stealing last memories with snape in the penseive |
QUOTE(kagome_eb @ Jul 23 2007, 10:08 PM) [snapback]1337350[/snapback] aww to bad I dint read this two day ago! am still kind of sick from reading none stop already! haha but am gethign better now that I finish and try not to think about it, tough I did get realy frustrated with the peopl lazy enoph not to read it that ask me if potter dies and naging me to tell me about it! god! what a nightmare! i know you mean. i just stopped telling people what happened. now i tell them to go read the book! --------------------   avatar by theonlysong** |
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