I remember laughing with friends: it feels exhilarating, like ice skating or driving down the highway, fast, with the windows down, singing along at the top of your lungs to that song on radio. I try to imagine new friends and new scenarios where we run into debates and then get distracted by a cute dog or a lightning strike or a dirge so doleful that one has to laugh at one’s own absurdity.
I picture nature: rock formations, forests, all sorts of wondrous creatures.
I picture someone beside me, breathing quietly, and I try to imagine enjoining with their peace.
I remember laughing with friends: it feels exhilarating, like ice skating or driving down the highway, fast, with the windows down, singing along at the top of your lungs to that song on radio. I try to imagine new friends and new scenarios where we run into debates and then get distracted by a cute dog or a lightning strike or a dirge so doleful that one has to laugh at one’s own absurdity.
I picture nature: rock formations, forests, all sorts of wondrous creatures.
I picture someone beside me, breathing quietly, and I try to imagine enjoining with their peace.
If you can concentrate enough, read a book, watch something on Netflix (even a documentary on a subject you like, since that’s usually not too emotionally or mentally taxing), draw, write a short story or journal. Listen to soothing music (I have a few stations on Pandora for this; Liquid Mind is good if you want to meditate or sleep). If you’re in one of those mental states where you try to read but ten minutes later you realize you’re still on the same paragraph and have no idea what it said, then try something really mindless like a casual online game – like Bejeweled or Inside Out Thought Bubbles. Sporcle is a fun website for distraction, too (mainly word games).
Or find something quirky that works for you. In my case, Cryptogram puzzles. I buy them by the book and do them every night to transition my brain from anxiety-filled craziness to calm sleep.
I generally get drunk. I don’t know what it is, I’m always so miserable and unhappy but put some booze into me and I’m relaxed and content. For a brief moment I can let go of my many afflictions and somehow my emotions are restored. I feel things once again and can experience nostalgia when listening to old music or watching old shows.
Don’t be an idiot like me, it’s just a temporary fix.
I forgot to mention one that I had started to do but then stopped – adult coloring. It can be soothing and mindful and whatnot when you’re able to do it. I wasn’t, for a while, because my anxiety or anger would make me shake like someone with Parkinson’s. That makes it pretty hard to draw or color or do anything requiring fine motor control! But now that I’ve taken an Ativan, maybe I can try it…
If by “happier” you mean by temporarily distracting or numbing ourselves:
-Food (choco, chips, cakes, sugary stuff)
-Music (tho I tend to listen to sad or angry music…which makes me more angry and sad…)
-Watching videos, movies
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Draw, paint, take photos,listen to music… I used to snuggle my dog, but she’s gone
Play My Hospital XD
I remember laughing with friends: it feels exhilarating, like ice skating or driving down the highway, fast, with the windows down, singing along at the top of your lungs to that song on radio. I try to imagine new friends and new scenarios where we run into debates and then get distracted by a cute dog or a lightning strike or a dirge so doleful that one has to laugh at one’s own absurdity.
I picture nature: rock formations, forests, all sorts of wondrous creatures.
I picture someone beside me, breathing quietly, and I try to imagine enjoining with their peace.
I remember laughing with friends: it feels exhilarating, like ice skating or driving down the highway, fast, with the windows down, singing along at the top of your lungs to that song on radio. I try to imagine new friends and new scenarios where we run into debates and then get distracted by a cute dog or a lightning strike or a dirge so doleful that one has to laugh at one’s own absurdity.
I picture nature: rock formations, forests, all sorts of wondrous creatures.
I picture someone beside me, breathing quietly, and I try to imagine enjoining with their peace.
If you can concentrate enough, read a book, watch something on Netflix (even a documentary on a subject you like, since that’s usually not too emotionally or mentally taxing), draw, write a short story or journal. Listen to soothing music (I have a few stations on Pandora for this; Liquid Mind is good if you want to meditate or sleep). If you’re in one of those mental states where you try to read but ten minutes later you realize you’re still on the same paragraph and have no idea what it said, then try something really mindless like a casual online game – like Bejeweled or Inside Out Thought Bubbles. Sporcle is a fun website for distraction, too (mainly word games).
Or find something quirky that works for you. In my case, Cryptogram puzzles. I buy them by the book and do them every night to transition my brain from anxiety-filled craziness to calm sleep.
I generally get drunk. I don’t know what it is, I’m always so miserable and unhappy but put some booze into me and I’m relaxed and content. For a brief moment I can let go of my many afflictions and somehow my emotions are restored. I feel things once again and can experience nostalgia when listening to old music or watching old shows.
Don’t be an idiot like me, it’s just a temporary fix.
I’m playing Tomb Raider right now, but any game you have to concentrate on so much you just cannot think about anything else is good.
Move a muscle and change a thought. Go for a walk or a run. Go to the gym.
I forgot to mention one that I had started to do but then stopped – adult coloring. It can be soothing and mindful and whatnot when you’re able to do it. I wasn’t, for a while, because my anxiety or anger would make me shake like someone with Parkinson’s. That makes it pretty hard to draw or color or do anything requiring fine motor control! But now that I’ve taken an Ativan, maybe I can try it…
I hope some of these suggestions work for you.
Watch funny vines, listen to trippy music, write, see something
I hope it helps
If by “happier” you mean by temporarily distracting or numbing ourselves:
-Food (choco, chips, cakes, sugary stuff)
-Music (tho I tend to listen to sad or angry music…which makes me more angry and sad…)
-Watching videos, movies