The most depressing humanoid

Remember the depressing robot from "The Hitchhikers guide to Galaxy", Marvin? That dude is one of the most interesting characters that I've come across in all these years of watching movies and TV.
( GeekTalk(normal people, shoo!): Only from such a crazy, bizarre and random formulation of ideas that built that movie can such a character arise. What is interesting in the character is not its depressing attitude, but the opportunity of introspection it offers. Its a swift attack, like suddenly I feel sorry for all the depressing thoughts that have come into mind till now, like I feel guilty for relating myself to that robot. I guess the authors intended the same. They also heighten the contrast by building the environment extra cheerful at times).

You shouldn't have read that.

Moving on...the reason I said its interesting is that it gives a higher look on how we deal with what is around us.

There is one very good exercise I once came up with...dunno if its out there. When you get too depressed, it sure does help. We all consider ourselves very knowledgeable, right? I mean, there's nothing that flies above our heads when it comes to helping others in their crisis situations, that's why we are all so good in advising others. When others go wrong, we mysteriously gain the power to tell them how to resolve it, even though we would have been dumbstruck if the same stuff would have happened to us. It's one of the many basic freaky human natures. This exercise uses that same power, but on you.
It's basically done by splitting yourselves (mentally, duh!) into two individuals. In your head, there are two guys, or girls...or whatever). Now one of them is "the depressing you", the one in the situation, and the other is the "normal you", the cool chap. The normal dude now flies off (yes, he has special powers...he's a dude) to some distance, and looks at the depressed loser. He notices how different it is from the normal behavior, and how he is hurting himself by being such a loser.
It's the same situation where you are trying to console your best friend. That should have happened to you at least once, right? (Why not, there are so many depressed people in the world, and one of them oughta be your friend) Anyways, what happens is that you end up being frustrated, because your friend just doesn't get through his head that what he is doing is just hurting him/herself. If there is something that can be done about it, do it, and if not, its no use getting all depressed, just forget it and move on with your life!
Anyways, at least in this situation the ones in your head are both you. While the normal one says all these stuff, the depressed one listening to it, is the same you. So you listen, because if not, you lose your self respect. Yep, because you are the one who advised your friend in the first place, to get out of it, when he was depressed...

Actually, it's a good way to see yourself as someone else and judge them once in a while, as you do to your friends. Judge may be too harsh a word there, but you get what I mean...lie look up and down, scrutinize, analyze, inspect, (and all their synonyms from the Word editor).
What this split up thing does is that you see yourself as someone else, and then you feel the way you feel to someone else. You might make excuses and judgments for yourself, but others...there's always something they did wrong which got them there. And there is always some way to fix it.

Glad to help, try it out. And by the way, if in the end something goes wrong with you ( like you get a split personality or you become a homicidal maniac), hey, don't blame me. I'm just a messenger; the idea came from below.