Last year it wasn't so bad because we had the Winter Olympics to distract us. Once they were over however, my support group realized that this year would be extra bad with no distractions. Our physicians wanted to put us on meds which none of us were too keen on. Our thrapists kept asking about our childhoods. Of course we all had the same answer, we spent 85% of our time out in the yard playing football with every other kid in the neighborhood. DUH!
So, in our quest for help we got together and commissioned a nation-wide survey to try to find some answers. The polling organization contacted dozens of PFSAD sufferers to ask what works for them in overcoming this condition. Surely, in the collective wisdom of this great nation we can find help. What works for someone in another state, just might work for you too.
Read on, then, and maybe the therapy that has helped another will be your solution as well.
"Wayul, my wife's sister's son's best friend's piano teacher is good friends with the coach down to the high school. He gets us the hook up e'ery year. We go into the field house during the school lunch period and sit in the equipment room and watch the video from every game, one per day. If we 'uz in the playoffs that season that's almost three weeks of therapy; for free! Shoot. You can't beat that with a stick."
--Jim Bob Jumpback
Pascagoula, MS
"I always just go quail hunting. Makes me feel much better."
--Chick Daney
Beeville, TX
"I light a few candles in my Grant Teaff shrine and meditate. Ya, I chant my mantra. What is it? "waytilnexcheer, waytilnexcheer, waytilnexcheer'. I just repeat it over and over, you know, between six packs. I always end up feeling much better. Been doing it since 1987."
--Jerry Don Spruill
Waco, TX
"I like to get an SUV. I equip the locks with a remotely controlled mechanical system that cannot be overridden without the proper radio frequency. I fill up the gas tank, park in front of Al Gore's house, leave the engine running, and lock the doors." --Dan Quayle
"I run down to the hardware store and buy a jug of denatured alcohol. Then I go out in the backyard and use it to set all the anthills on fire. Makes me feel much better."
--Bubba Barnes
Gatlinburg, TN
"What's football?" --Elliot Higginbotham, Bangor, ME
"Soon as I start to feel those blues coming on I know exaclty what I gotta do. I start collecting daily water samples in all the local cricks. I plot the water temperature and clarity with the day length, moon phase, and ambient temperature. In just a couple weeks I can predict the exact date and time that the white bass will start spawning. That way I will be ready for it. I'm always on the water as soon as they start. Fill my freezer with filets the first week every year."
--Billy Boudreaux
Munroe, LA
"Donuts. Lots of donuts and I always feel much better." --Joe Don Jackson, Huntington, WV
"Shoot. I found out a long time ago how to deal with that. The day after the Super Bowl I start making my brackets for the NCAA basketball tourny. Then, I spend the next several Saturdays with a pencil and eraser changing them up and getting them fine tuned. When March madness gets here I'm ready for the real thing. By the time that's over I'm feeling pretty good and I can go up to the high school and watch spring training."
--Eddie Ray Kincaid
Houston, TX
"Hog hunting. Every Saturday until turkey season I go hog hunting. The more I kill, the better I feel."
--Bubba Washington
Alpharetta, GA
"Buying a new gun always makes me feel better. The problem is that every time I get a new gun I have to buy my wife something too; its only fair. So, I was going broke getting my wife outfits and computers and jewelry every time I got a gun. Of course, being broke negated the benefit of the new gun. I found, though, that I can get my kid new stuff and that's fair for everyone. So, when I start getting depressed, Robyn gets a new gun. She's not really sure why she needs a closet full of guns, but she's happy to get presents. And for just a trip to Baskin Robbins, she lets me borrow them for the weekend."
--Jeb Gordon
Farmers Branch, TX
"I bake a lot." --Girard Odgen Thayers, Boston, MA
