Posted by pinkeye on February 25, 2005, at 21:55:22
In reply to Re: sorry guys » pinkeye, posted by alexandra_k on February 25, 2005, at 20:46:31
I just thoguht of something which might help you. While you wait to work on things out with some therapist, meanwhile do what you can do to atleast feel temporarily better.
Try not to ruminate. If you catch yourself ruminating, distract yourself. It helped me immensely.
And reach out to others and try to help others as much as possible. As I said in the other thread, it has helped me hugely in not thinking about my own issues.
Stop doing anything which makes you feel sad and distressed - don't see sad movies, don't listen to sad or pathos songs and don't associate with people who invoke negative feelings in you. Working on your things is long term solution, but temporarily you can do certain things to feel little better. I used to watch movies which were very sad and read novels which were all somehow complicated and lie listening to songs which were sadly romantic and cry. Just the simple step of stopping that and starting to see comedy movies, and movies like Sound of music, Tarzan, Charlie Chaplin, Lion King, Finding Nemo, and other disney movies and listening to songs like Michael Jacksons songs made my mood much better.
I believe you should find some good therapist and work on underlying issues definitely, but meanwhile you can try to make your life a little easier with these simple and effective steps.
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