Trying To Keep Busy

[Blackjack]

I'm trying to keep busy today. I'm tired of thinking about me and trying to get some things accomplished...

Music is my support, my distraction. It's helped me greatly. Learn to play an instrument, pick your favourite band or artist and research them fully, learn all about each of their songs. It's my constant companion and it won't let you down

 

[EmmaOwl]

I watch a lot of TV (probably not all that therapeutic).

Hey, don't knock it! There are plenty of days where I am thrilled if I can sit through entire tv shows while actually following plot etc.

Sometimes distraction is absolutely the best thing. If I am depressed and cannot concentrate on anything...then I know I've got a problem. In a way it's a good way to gauge my level of health.

This maybe sounds weird but I've also started binge-watching a sitcom with my dad - it's been nice - the past month or so, instead of retreating to our own respective corners to eat dinner we watch a couple episodes together. Yeah it's kinda like "tv tray" but it's nice to have something we can both enjoy and spend time with each other without having an awkward sit-down dinner every night - and it gives me a chance to be in the downstairs area of the house "safely" - meaning, without the news blaring.

- So far, I vetoed Luke Cage; he banned "Freaks and Geeks". We're working on agreements here !! ;) We're quickly running out of our current compromise of How I Met Your Mother.

Since I'm here... Anyone have some suggestions for a Baby-boomer dad and Gen X daughter?? Anything on Netflix or Hulu. One of the British costume dramas next? We are all over the spectrum from the silliest to some ridiculously pretentious shows and movies :)

 

[Nessa7]

Dusting. There's always something that needs it. I also do routine computer stuff, like running scans and tidying folders. I rotate my books, so that the ones that I want to read next are displayed where I see them first. It is also not too early to get stuff out for the holidays, if you celebrate them.

Last January, I used the KonMari method to go through my clothes to get through a rough time.

 

[Deleted member 34328]

Laundry and messy floors. Those are necessary evils.

This is a good thread for me since right now I'm completely unmotivated to do anything creative. I have done several loads of laundry, swept and did some cleaning downstairs. As I said - necessary evils.

 

[EmmaOwl]

I think it's cool that so many people get USEFUL stuff done when keeping busy. I try to keep busy, and somehow in that process the laundry goes unwashed. Etc.

Also I'm coming to terms that I'm a hoarder. I can't help it. Everything I should throw out, I think "That *might* be useful someday... When and for what I do not know, but still...."

I'm the kind of person that would keep a stack of New Yorkers with the impossible idea of "catching up." (umm... I AM a person that keeps a.. oh never mind. I pretend to give them to my mother. lol)

 

[EmmaOwl]

This is a good thread for me since right now I'm completely unmotivated to do anything creative. I have done several loads of laundry, swept and did some cleaning downstairs.

See, I am the opposite. I have "projects" all over the place.... at one point I taught myself "off-loom seed beadwork" and have a bunch of half finished jewelry projects. I tried to learn to knit... failed! Other odds and ends. All that is busywork, though.

What I would LOVE to do creatively is write again. I don't mean write on the boards although that is a bonus, helping me on the way.

 

[EmmaOwl]

There's always YouTube :)

Today I've "lost" about 4 hours to general browsing around online... There is always more! I was just now asked if wanted dinner soon... "Dinner? It's 4 o'clock!"
'Uh no it's 8'
Ooops.


**Still, even YouTube doesn't do it ALL the time... Depressed enough, or anxious enough, watching the minutes crawl can be brutal. Hence, needing different ways to keep busy. Jeez I AM slow today.

 

[Deleted member 34328]

I am by nature a very creative person. When things get dark and scary, my T encourages me to get out my drawings, painting, rocks & sea glass (I create landscape type of painting on flat rocks found in Scotland.) I started experimenting with wiring sea glass.

I'm also a musician (flute). Problem with all this is that I can't just turn on the creative side and "make something". It would be nice I guess, but usually when I start something, I'm never really sure how it's going to turn out. It just happens.

Maybe if I get out my supplies something will come of it.

 

[EmmaOwl]

I am by nature a very creative person. When things get dark and scary, my T encourages me to get out m...

stp: I understand. I veered away. I do "crafty stuff" to pass the time of a depressed disabled person. In reality, I was always the kid the art teacher wanted to fail - but couldn't, because..it was art class. Lucky for me. I am so unskilled, in my mid to late 20's, I started picking up children's craft kits.
I took a knitting class, but could not knit (only now does it occur to me - the teacher ought to have either refunded me or given extra help...but I thought, Oh, I just suck at anything artistic - nothing to do about that!)

HOWEVER, people like my therapist encourage me in terms of creative writing. That, I have trouble with. It's something that in the past I just DID, without thinking about it - with a lot of positive results. I think when you have expectations, it becomes more difficult. At least, that's how I am. I can write a message board post but I have no ability or desire to turn an interesting phrase.

 

[eloc]

i swim 45 mins and walk 45 mins and I am trying to learn a new script language so I can help my sons with their national languages - a stressor for them and consequently for me . It s a right left language so I think of it as EMDR when I work between English and it. I have been dabbling with it for more than two years and finally know the alphabet, vowel signs and have worked out how to learn to type it on the computer - somethjing most people have not learnt they can do despite the tech being available for word and desktop publishing for over four years- it might revolutionalise the learning as each letter has 4 forms depending on what it attaches to and where it apppears in the word - now you can see them change as you type. I have not even bothered for 20 years it seemed so hard and now with time and my kids meltdowns as motivation - I am all over it- something Pre PTSD that may have taken lless time or maybe I never would have bothered with - my own struggles have made the kids efforts less daunting.

 

[water_sun]

I currently swim an hour everyday, at noon. So between 9am and noon I pretty much freak out about what to do with all that time. Im currently trying coloring, and tomorrow Im gonna do groceries and start cooking more.

 

[I_will_recover]

Perhaps mandalas. I print them for free and just color.
You can google mandalas and then go to images, print and color. It's free. Also there is a cool sand mandalas video on YouTube. It's 9 minutes long but kinda soothing and kinda cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdUFqkX2d6I&sns=em

Ps- I usually avoid websites for people are allowed (including YouTube). Reading comments subject always seems to upset me.