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Maybe you should try some music other than Wagner, then? Oddly enough, one of the few things that can consistently snap me out of a bad mood is spending an hour listening to one of my favorite CDs from beginning to end.
What are your favorite CDs?
Promise not to laugh?
Music From Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI Video Games
Weird Al Yankovic - Running With Scissors
Pokemon: 2B A Master
Rob Balder - Rich Fantasy Lives
Complete tangent: here is an excellent piano rendering of some FF music that you might well enjoy.
What kind of AGI are you? How do you do the things you do-o-o? Could it be our utility you maximi-ize? What kind of AGI are you? Are you Friendly through and through? Please tell me paperclips don't int'rest yooou What kind of AGI are you?
I do use music, but it works inconsistently for me, so I wasn't sure if it was good general advice.
I do have one dramatic example. This summer, a friend of mine suffered a loss and had several personal worries, and I was considering cutting him out of my life completely because it seemed daunting to try to comfort him. I found a recording of the Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio and I had an epiphany -- "Hey, that would be an incredibly shitty thing to do! I care about my friend, after all!" And, of course, I stayed in touch with him. It was really a remarkable change: the song actually made me more caring and motivated.
This is something that I often forget and have been trying to keep in mind recently. I don't listen to music most of the time and am not very passionate about it, but it's still a surprisingly good way of improving my mood.
... although I have to choose it carefully. Of my two recent favorite albums, one is a little too blue for a pick-me-up (Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass - Fitzgerald and Pass ... Again), and the other is too bouncy for me to tolerate when I'm in a bad mood (Teapacks - Disco Menayak).
I find music draws me out of a bad mood best when it first matches my mood, then gradually changes toward my desired mood. You might try making an "anti-nihilism" mix that starts with Wagner and progresses through Elle Fitzgerald into the Teapacks.
My girlfriend just posted this site on facebook, which looks like it could systematize the process I described in the sibling comment.