Lately I have been feeling better, I guess. I dropped some people in my life, they caused my excess pain, that I didn’t need. They were like chains, holding me down. I have begun a routine of self appreciation, after so long, of hating myself…. Treating myself to spa nights with friends I’ve pushed away, has improved my social skills, I hope. Trying to re-build friendships I’ve broken down out of pure pain. Having some people around me helps me quite a bit. I have started trying to surround myself with positive things, the best I can.
I have no idea how long this positivity will last… I don’t know if this is even worth it, but I really hope so…
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Good for you….hopefully you’re able to maintain it…. it’s great to see somebody have a positive change every once in a while
Chance are it will not last — that’s life: a person’s emotional state fluctuates indefinitely. I don’t say this to discourage you, rather to remind you to stay on guard. When you do enter another of those troughs, just remember that life isn’t an endless ascension: there are downs and ups; and when you enter a trough, you must have the will to climb back up to the next crest.
I apologize if I sound discouraging; I don’t mean to. I just don’t want you to fall into the trap of thinking that you’ll never again have a down time in your life, and that when you do, all is lost.
One thing i’m always wary of, is how i see that so many people seem to blindly set themselves up for severely detrimental disappointment… but when i try to intervene, in attempt to help them stop setting themselves up for disappointment through false hopes and improperly formed expectations, they get upset and call me negative, and perceive that i am attempting to “bring them down,” somehow.
@Clevername
It’s big problem with the depressed. The more volatile one’s emotional state, the more myopic their visions, as a business is more scrupulous with its money when there is less of it about.
People in these kinds of situations often only see their current state — they don’t have the luxury of thinking about the future — and are thus much more likely to succumb to discouragement: if they’re happy, they think they will always be happy, and if they become despondent, they think they will always be despondent.
It’s hard, but I think it’s best for people to acknowledge that there will always be ups and downs, so they aren’t as jarred by the motions.