Ten Things To Do When You Feel Like Crap:
1. Have a really hot, long shower. Cry if you need to. Sit on the ground. Feel sorry for yourself. Let the steam soak into your skin. Let the hot water wash your face clean. But the moment you turn off that water, you are done feeling sorry for yourself. Make a decision to move on from that sadness.
2. Clean. I know, cleaning is boring and annoying - but how about that feeling you get when you are finished? The smell of the vacuum. That feeling of accomplishment? Who knows, you might even find money along the way. Totally worth it. It’s like starting with a clean slate.
3. Call a friend you haven’t spoken to for a while. If your first choice doesn’t pick up, choose someone else. Ask them all about how their lives are going and tell them about yours. Not only will it take your mind off whatever crappy thing you have been plagued by, but you will laugh with them! Laughing triggers endorphins and endorphins make you happy!
4. Go for a run or a walk. This get’s your endorphins and dopamine going crazy. You will get more energy and more happiness just because the chemicals in your body are running around!
5. Stop and take it all in. Walking in the night? Stop and look at the stars. Breathe in the cold air. Feel alive.
6. Stop whining. Ever heard the saying “love life and life will love you back”? Or, the idea of the power of attraction? It’s true! If you sit around saying “why me, waaaaa waaaa” then bad things will happen to you. You’re already defeated. If you start saying, “I will be happy, I will accomplish my ambitions, I will find love, I do look amazing, I am a great friend” etc., then not only will you start to believe them but you will be amazed at what amazing things start to happen.
7. Drink tea. This always works. Not a tea fan? Try hot water with a slice of lemon and some agave syrup.
8. Make a conscious decision to stop holding certain grudges. We all have people we have held grudges on in the past. Let them go. If you feel like you owe this person an apology, don’t be too proud. Send them a sincere facebook apology. Sincerity is in the intent, so even if it’s a 2 sentence apology - as long as you mean it it’s worth it.
9. Cook some really nice, warm food. Stimulate your taste buds with anything as simple as two minute noodles or as lavish as a three course garlic bread, pasta bake, chocolate mousse triple combo.
10. Write down a list of goals to achieve for the week. As simple as “buy insect repellent” or as large as “jog for 25 minutes non stop” and tick them off when they’re done. You will feel very accomplished and that alone will help pep up your mood!
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Stop whining. Ever heard the saying “love life and life will love you back”? Or, the idea of the power of attraction? It’s true! If you sit around saying “why me, waaaaa waaaa” then bad things will happen to you.
Um, no. Bad things will happen to you because there are assholes in the world. Thinking happy thoughts only works for fairy dust. There’s a difference between allowing negative thoughts to affect your daily life and believing that thinking bad thoughts makes bad things happen. If I think that a giant purple moose will attack me in the night, a giant purple moose is not going to attack me in the night. Thinking bad thoughts doesn’t make things happen to you.
Please do not peddle bullshit like this, because it is so ridiculously victim-blaming it’s not even funny. The other tips are very nice in comparison.
I’ve got depression. I’ve got anxiety.
Stop whining? You’re not allowed to still be sad when you turn the water off in the shower?
Do you even realize how insensitive that is toward people who suffer with mental illness? Do you haveany fucking idea how hard it is to “think positive” or “think about happy things” when day in and day out you suffer with an illness that won’t let you be happy? Do you have any fucking idea what it’s like to have to be on medication just to make sure you’re not as depressed so that maybe you’ll be able to sort of enjoy something?
No?
Then quit telling people to “stop whining.” Because maybe someone reading this has a mental illness like I do, and you just erased the reason for their depression like it’s not even real. You can’t turn mental illness off like you can turn off the water in the shower. You’re stuck with it every fucking miserable goddamn day of your fucking life. Even if you’re on medication, you’re stuck with it. The medication just fights some of the demons off for you. It doesn’t make you happy, it doesn’t fucking “cure” you, it just makes your life some form of tolerable so that you can just barely live it.
The rest of your list is somewhat plausible. But seriously? 1 and 6 are complete bullshit. “Life’s a bitch and then you die” is my motto, because it’s the fucking truth.
Go check your fucking ableist privilege at the fucking door.
