How to survive the summer?

[expectingbetter]

I would be grateful if someone could help me to survive what is left of this summer.
I remember a similar thread connected to the autumn last year where another member asked for recommendations from people who really love fall.
I find the summer to be the hardest for me.
I can't leave my city and we have temperatures around 40degrees of Celsius almost every day.
My therapist is on 11 weeks vacation as usually every summer.
I am stuck at home with both parents and terrible relations between me and my father and him and my mom.
I barely leave home because of the heat and because of me feeling sick physically and emotionally most of the time.
I have half of the summer yet to survive. I'm drowning during the last week and it is becoming worse every day.
Please if you had some tips for me be so kind to share.

 

[LuckiLee]

Just get out of the house. Do anything. Bike ride. Nature walk. Take a book to the park. Feed the ducks. Art institutes. Museums. The library. Donate your time to a charity. Write. Draw. Paint. Color. Learn a new language online. Help someone in your neighborhood.

Sorry you're struggling. You're not alone.

 

[expectingbetter]

I appreciate your will to help me.
I can't apply the majority when it's heat like this. I would collapse if riding a bike these days. It's terribly hot.
My city doesn't offer any museum or similar.
I am learning a language but today my mind got blurred that I wasn't able to focus on anything. I can't stand the heat neither inside or out.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I do not know any tips but I understand not being able to go out in the heat. Use distractions and diversions and write in your diary your progess or process whatever the case may be. Give yourself whatever treats you can. You deserve self care and it is so hard when homebound. But I can relate. I do not have any money and I live far away from the places in town so I cannot walk to get out and away. I use diversions and distractions as much as I can. Later on in the fall you will feel much better so you do have this to look forward to. Hugs.

 

[expectingbetter]

@Rain Thank you again.
I can't invent any happy thought or feeling right now unfortunately.
Thank you for doing that instead of me. Yes, my season is just around the corner, it will come even sooner than its exact date of beginning. I will try to make myself a bit stronger again to be able to go through those few more weeks.

 

[Chiqui]

Is there any shops, coffee places with AC? I go there. Inside, try to keep yourself fresh: Showers, wet hair, lots of water, soaking in the bathtube...eat icecreams, melon, cold food. I can't stand those 40 degrees neither, and I have to find tips to keep my body and head fresh. Also, sometimes, I wake very early, so it is still fresh and go for a walk and shopping. I am back home before hotter. I use to sleep during the day time, it is unuseless to try to study and concentrate while sweeting. So nights are more productive than daytime, at last, it is silence and fresh, sometimes.
Best for you. Yes, autum is in the corner!!

 

[ladee]

It is very hot here also... but I have air coditioning... or I would not survive.... sometimes I will get a few ice cubes and wrap them in a dish towel and put around my neck... that tends to cool me off a lot... especially if I am outside.... summers are hard...I am hating being so housebound.... it makes me cranky....

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am hating being so housebound.... it makes me cranky....

me too!

 

[expectingbetter]

Thank you.
You are so wonderful people.

I have air conditioning. But few days ago the main one in the living room broke down. Now it's like million degrees in all parts of the flat but in my room.
It's like a shock every time I leave the room.
I didn't even sleep last night because of the mosquitoes. Another thing of summer.

My situation in the home is like that that noone would bother to fix the air conditioner and currently we are all whole day at home.
It only makes everything more tense.

My heart is aching me literally.

@MariaY

Thank you for your recommendations.
I was having even health issues recently and I don't have health insurance.
I wasn't able to eat so it was making everything harder. I started eating almost normally.
I'll try to be nice to myself in that sense too. To give my body decent food.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

This doesn't help in all situations, but does ease the suffocating feelings rather well in many cases. I keep a spray bottle filled with water with me during the summer. I use it in my car with the windows rolled down. I use it at home with a fan on. I use it when I sit in the sun and hope for a breeze. I use it when I garden, go jam to outdoor live music, etc., etc. If it's hot, thick, and humid, having a fan or a breeze helps so much. Sometimes, I add Peppermint essential oil to it (just one or two drops) to enhance the coolness feeling.

 

[Anrish]

You once showed me the wonderful sites of your city where was lot of green - how about going there once a day? ...the air should be better there and you could get out of the flat.

You could also take your homework with you and learn there. Imagine I sit next to you and ask you the vocabulary...:p:hug:

 

[expectingbetter]

My @Anrish you made me smile broadly :laugh:
Thank you:hug:

I had a little walk at the place few nights ago (you know me and nights :D), but actually the place is located on the remains of the fortress and is incredibly hot by day, that stone is like a heating element, and even by night wasn't pleasant. When temperatures are like that you need a car to really escape the heat.

We have a pause in the heat today and for me amazing weather, cloudy and drizzle, too humid but I was so pleased not to see the sun for one whole day. I know I sound bad, but it was killing me for days.

And you warmed my heart which is overwhelmed by anxiety and pressure today with what you said to me to imagine:happy:. I'll apply that for sure!!!!:D:p