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Everybody has blue days.

These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach.You can’t rise to the occasion.Just getting started seems impossible.On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.This is not always such a bad thing.You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!On blue days you feel like you’re floating in an ocean of sadness.You’re about to burst into tears at any moment and you don’t even know why.Ultimately, you feel like you’re wandering through life without purpose.You’re not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting,“Will someone please shoot me!”It doesn’t take much to bring on a blue day.You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose.You could forget your date’s name or have an embarrassing photograph published.You might get dumped,divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,or just have a plain old bad-hair day.Maybe work is a pain in the butt.You’re under major pressure to fill someone else’s shoes,your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.You might have a splitting headache,or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache,chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toenail.Whatever the reason, you’re convinced that someone up there doesn’t like you.Oh what to do, what to do?

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每個人都有憂郁的時候。

那些日子真是慘透了，你覺得心里亂糟糟的、怨氣叢生、寂寞、整個人徹底的精疲力竭。那些日子總會讓你感到自己的渺小和微不足道，每件事情似乎都夠不著邊。你根本無法振作起來。

根本沒有力氣重新開始。 在憂郁的日子里，你可能變成偏執狂，覺得每個人都想要吃定你。 其實情況并不總是那么糟。你感到灰心、焦慮，可能開始神經質地拼命咬指甲，然后不可救藥地陷入一眨眼吃掉三大塊巧克力蛋糕的瘋狂！ 在憂郁的日子里，你會覺得自己在悲傷的海里沉沉浮浮。不論在什么時候，你總有種想哭的沖動，卻不知道為了什么。最后，你覺得自己猶如行尸走肉，失去生活目標。

你不知道自己還可以撐多久，然后你想大喊一聲：“誰來一槍把我打死吧！” 其實一點小事就讓你一天都郁悶難當。也許只是一覺醒來，沒有感覺到或者看到自己最棒的一面，發現自己又多了幾條皺紋，又重了幾斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一個大包。你可能忘記了約會對象的名字，或是有張可笑的照片被登出來。你或許被人拋棄、離了婚，或是被開除，當眾出丑，被刻薄的綽號弄得心亂如麻，或許只因為你得整天頂著一個其丑無比的發型。 也許工作讓你痛苦得如坐針氈。你在強大的壓力下頂替他人的位置，你的老板對你百般挑剔，辦公室里的每一個人都讓你發瘋。你可能會頭疼欲裂，或重心不穩跌個正著，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口干舌燥，或是指甲長到肉里頭了。不管什么原因，你確定上面有人不喜歡你。 唉，該怎么辦，到底該怎么辦呢？