What Helps You Get Through Your Bad Days

[franciemarnie]

Everyone has great advice.

It helps me if I can get totally absorbed in something else - like a riveting movie.

If there is any way to laugh, I can instantly feel a switch.

If I can workout, I stop feeling so powerless and it creates endorphins.

I have a couple favorite books I reread that give me a sense of peace and safety.

If I am burying anger, it helps to bring it up and out safely. Nothing has been so exhausting and despair inducing as keeping anger down. I can usually tell if it's an anger burial by what kind of energy I have once I start a work out.

It sounds like possibly you are in a depression. I hope meds can help. Sometimes when the darkness is overwhelming, they can pull you up and out.

At my worst, all I could do was put one foot in front of the other and keep myself distracted like watching a marathon of some show. Be gentle with yourself. Know this will pass.

 

[Definitely..maybe]

Silly Lifetime movies with my dog, some chocolate, dr pepper and good junk food.

I know that's not so great, but some days I'm just proud of myself for making it through them.

Other days getting busy or a nice walk can help.

 

[Julesnaz]

I love fresh, clean sheets. A clean bed just seems to make me feel a bit better. I love the smell and comfort. And watching my cat, she's very relaxing.

 

[Seasounds]

Ive been having a lot of bad days lately. I feel as if I am in a deep deep hole that im never going to get out of.

I wanted to speak a bit more deeply. I, too, have felt like this; deeply overwhelmed, and deeply depressed. The road of getting myself out of the hole, was unseen, as was the light of day. Misery is no fun.

In those times, when I would rather not have been alive, I rooted myself in mindfulness meditation. This gave me a way to discover peace, and non-judgement, amidst the storm. If I didn't want to 'sit' for meditation, there was a form of walking meditation. You can find a book or google to get the basics.

My resentful attitude shifted to being patient, and i cultivated acceptance with my life's situation. I realized I had a new task in life in addition to my other goals.

Everything is such an effort to and I just don't enjoy much in life anymore.

I know. This sucks. That inner mood affects everything. Do what you can to shift the mood, so you don't feel like a victim to it. Doing this helps your mindbody to be less stuck. Meditation helps break the low moods.

I'm trying to be strong but I don't know how much more I can handle but I am waiting to get on some new meds and i'm hoping they will help me.

Instead of being strong, you might consider being yourself, allowing feelings of pain; this helps adapting to what is, instead of fighting what is.

It is a challenge. You have a sister on the path.There is a way through it. Cultivate patience, and self-love. You can make it.

 

[Stanley Shi-Yume]

The subject is getting through bad days. I really don't know. The only thing I can do on a bad day is get out of my routine and focus on me ... on relief. In the past I just suffered or left work on sick hours... getting me into trouble. Sometimes I can break the routine, get away, and do my run at the gym, and be ok again. Feeling okay, that's the hugely tough thing once you've started scrutinizing how bad or good/functional you actually feel day by day. It's a challenge you are not alone in facing.

 

[JustBe]

I try to sit with myself and quietly accept the feelings, reminding myself this will pass and that today isn't the only day.

 

[Changing4Best]

I had been having a rough day. So I looked up one of my favorite Bible verses. I read a bit of what was before it and what was after it in the Bible. This way I could better understand the one verse that I so love in the middle of that whole passage.

 

[Ronin]

To answer the original question...

Music.

Poems.

Listening to others' experiences when I'm too overwhelmed by my own & find it hard to verbalize (goes hand in hand).

Dreaming. Just letting my associations run wild, flip me to surreal world, and back. Creativity, on the more energetic bad days. On the less, just dreaming with open eyes.

Booze & smoking, though I'm quitting on both various times.

Fire setting in safe ways. Cuts past off present, fast.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

i wear soft comfotable clothes. I watch good movies to distract me. I eat my comfort foods, and I cuddle with something soft. I also take naps. I try to figure out what I need and want and meet those needs.