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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2008, 04:32:49 pm »
I think this year has been my worst case of Kan withdrawal (as I like to call it). I had so much fun, and then having turn around and face normal life again pretty much bit me in the ass. I kept browsing youtube and stuff in denial.

I can't wait for next year though.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2008, 04:35:14 pm »
I've never been all that upset after NDK.  It sucks for it to go, but I certainly couldn't do it every day of my life.  A week wouldn't be bad, though...
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2008, 05:48:26 pm »
Quote from: Pestilence on September 16, 2008, 04:35:14 pm
I've never been all that upset after NDK.  It sucks for it to go, but I certainly couldn't do it every day of my life.  A week wouldn't be bad, though...
Or one weekend every three months, instead of twelve.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2008, 05:56:25 pm »
We've already got a thread about how frequently we'd like to see the con. Let's keep on topic, please.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2008, 06:09:34 pm »
Become a senior/upperclassman in college! You won't have TIME to experience con depression. Real life came and smacked me in the face as soon as I got home, so I'm getting about as much sleep trying to catch up with school as I did at the con.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2008, 06:11:41 pm »
Quote from: Greg Hines on September 16, 2008, 05:56:25 pm
We've already got a thread about how frequently we'd like to see the con. Let's keep on topic, please.

Are you trying to tell me that the infrequency of the convention has NOTHING to do with post NDK depression?  That if it were MORE frequent, that we wouldn't have a DIRECT EFFECT on it?

Hmm, okay.

My friend Nick was actually going through his NDK funk, like he does every year.  He was trying to get some people together that Sunday because he didn't want the NDK weekend to end.  Alas, everyone was too tired to do anything and him and I just ended up watching Dodgeball.  Did anyone do anything to try and supplement the NDK depression?
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2008, 07:09:13 pm »
Sir Pscyho went to wrk, that dumb-butt  :P

This year wasnt so bad. Maybe its because of all the meetup stuff that Its supressed that after con anxiety cause I know some of you Ill see again in about a few weeks to a month later anywho  :o
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #27 on: September 16, 2008, 07:10:25 pm »
Quote from: toadstoolssecretluvchild on September 16, 2008, 07:09:13 pm
Sir Pscyho went to wrk, that dumb-butt  :P

This year wasnt so bad. Maybe its because of all the meetup stuff that Its supressed that after con anxiety cause I know some of you Ill see again in about a few weeks to a month later anywho  :o

Yeah, I could see that.  It's like, you don't have to worry about replenishing friendships for another year because you will be able to cnnect much sooner.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #28 on: September 16, 2008, 07:39:01 pm »
One of my friends was suffering post-kan depression on the trip home.  It was his first kan (as well as mine), but he's 10 years younger than I am, and has not been so culture shocked either.

All you need to do to get past it is this:

Take a week to watch ALL of the amine you can (and get some sleep, please!)
Take a few days to decide on who you are going as next year
Start saving, preparing, and designing your costume (350 days of prep time is a whole lot better than 35 days)
And keep posting/reading the NDK forums.  No time like the present to get excited about next year's kan!
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #29 on: September 16, 2008, 07:50:32 pm »
Its good to see that I'm not the only one who felt this way about the end of the con.
Reality sucks! I wish I could go to meet ups but I dont know if any are going on here in colorado springs cause the ones i hear of are in denver. I regret nothing from the con, i came with very little money and bought a vampire hunter d tshirt and the first two discs of Pumpkin Scissors but the memories and feelings are forever imprinted on my mind. I've spent the last day or so looking up amvs and the songs to them, crying while watching some of the amvs, feeling very alone because no one that I usually hang with understands why I get like this. My digital camera is a walmart special so i got some good pics and some bad pics. I watched anime till I couldnt see straight! ^^
This was my 7th con and all of you are like family... NDK shows you an escape from reality for a while and i get the chance to meet people similar to myself. I know life will get back to its usual ness but I love the time I can take away from all the hassles of everyday life and forget them for a weekend! Its just very hard to get back into the swing of things for the first week. I have watched anime religiously since the con and it helps. I look back at all the things i did, all the people i met, and all the anime i watched... good times. I'm looking for the anime i saw at the con *kanon, shuffle ...* and realize i have no money now and cant buy it for quite a while but I still have anime to watch so I should stop complaining, yet its what i saw at the con and how it made me feel that makes me so anxious to watch that particular anime. @_@ I think thats enough of that for now lol
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #30 on: September 16, 2008, 07:57:00 pm »
im fighting it by listening to carmeldansen, ad naseaum. That and cleaning house via the method in my sig.

Cheery Jpop cures depression
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #31 on: September 16, 2008, 09:26:43 pm »
Weirdly enough, I've had post NDK depression in the past as well. Speaking from a Staff perspective, I think it's because we spend a lot of time (in some cases all year) preparing for the con, and then everything happens very quickly and it's over and done and suddenly it's gone, and we have nothing to do. The first time it happened to me, I called my ex girlfriend whom I had just recently broken up with, asked her to lunch during the workday and ended up breaking down in tears on her shoulder in the stairwell of my office downtown. I couldn't figure out WTF happened at that time, but eventually I became familiar with it.

The thing that helps me the most, and that is very easy to do in my current position, is to start planning the next one and thinking about how great it's going to be. Keeping focused on the positive and keeping yourself busy are two standard ways to avoid depression anyway, and thinking about con just makes you even happier. ^_^
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #32 on: September 16, 2008, 09:33:53 pm »
Quote from: BakuDan on September 16, 2008, 09:26:43 pm
Keeping focused on the positive and keeping yourself busy are two standard ways to avoid depression anyway, and thinking about con just makes you even happier. ^_^

I like to talk about all the positives.  Reminiscing always makes me feel better.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #33 on: September 16, 2008, 10:47:28 pm »
I fought off the post con funk by watching Silent Hill and Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko was fantastic. Silent Hill wasn't. :P

Now for Men in Black. The flashy thing rules.
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #34 on: September 16, 2008, 10:49:05 pm »
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Now for Men in Black. The flashy thing rules.

I'd end up flashing myself and forgetting I had it at all...
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #35 on: September 16, 2008, 11:09:46 pm »
Quote from: Armstrong08 on September 16, 2008, 10:49:05 pm
I'd end up flashing myself and forgetting I had it at all...

But if you did that, would you remember to go again next year?

I do have to agree with Pest, thinking about all the awesome stuff that happened does help.

My con depression the last couple years was always due to missed connections on sunday. I'd meet someone I really wanted to stay in contact with and in at least one case, made arrangements to connect on sunday to exchange info, and never managed to make it happen.

I didn't have that issue this year. xD
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #36 on: September 16, 2008, 11:14:21 pm »
OK...I guess I'm suffering NDKPD myself.  As my first go at this, I found that I didn't want it to end either.  It was new, alluring, and intoxicating.  A new drug, so to speak, with all of the side effects of a healthy social life.

I have found myself glued to these forums solid for the last three hours.  I keep playing the same disk of Ghost in the Shell 2nd GiG over and over because I don't want to get up.

We are all going to want more, and I know that I am not exempt.  In the meantime, I will check on the forums, start renting anime from the local Hastings, and get a better feel for what I just witnessed: over 5,000 people who dressed up as someone else for a weekend, just to be with other people just like them.

No wonder we want more...who wants to go back to work with some group of people that haven't got a clue?
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #37 on: September 16, 2008, 11:27:05 pm »
same boat here arm, this was my first full kon weekend after 3 saturdays only and it was really sad going back to real life monday to school and people in normal clothes and no carameldansen running around. ><
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Re: Post ndk depression
« Reply #38 on: September 17, 2008, 05:34:56 am »
lol thats exactly what most of us are thinking!!! @_@ I'm gonna rewatch some anime that I bought a while back *hasnt had money for anything new really* besides pumpkin scissors but thats because I only bought the first 2 discs of that series and as an avid otaku I easily watched that in a short span of time and craved more! ^^

Quote from: Armstrong08 on September 16, 2008, 11:14:21 pm
OK...I guess I'm suffering NDKPD myself.  As my first go at this, I found that I didn't want it to end either.  It was new, alluring, and intoxicating.  A new drug, so to speak, with all of the side effects of a healthy social life.

I have found myself glued to these forums solid for the last three hours.  I keep playing the same disk of Ghost in the Shell 2nd GiG over and over because I don't want to get up.

We are all going to want more, and I know that I am not exempt.  In the meantime, I will check on the forums, start renting anime from the local Hastings, and get a better feel for what I just witnessed: over 5,000 people who dressed up as someone else for a weekend, just to be with other people just like them.

No wonder we want more...who wants to go back to work with some group of people that haven't got a clue?
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