Personally I find that I can use certain sad music to push through vague mopey depression into a state where I can do something about it. If I just sit there b

Personally I find that I can use certain sad music to push through vague mopey depression into a state where I can do something about it. If I just sit there being sad and useless I’m gonna start feeling sad about how long I’ve been sitting there moping and it’s a horrible downward spiral. If I lay there on the floor in the dark with headphones on listening to a double album full of exquisitely constructed instrumental crystals of particular flavors of sadness then I am likely to actually start crying and find some release from the endless circles around the mental drain. Or I might also start laughing at what a caricature of an emotion I’m being by doing this - and then the sadness is banished in another way. Aphex Twin’s “Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2” is my go-to album for this. That or Nine Inch Nails if I want to be more angry. Which probably tells you a lot about my age.