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ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
yeah, totally get this. replace ‘phone’ with ‘computer’ and ‘sad’ with ‘bored’ and you could be talking about me too.
some advice i got secondhand from a fren’s therapist was to try to do at least one thing different from your normal routine everyday just to break established patterns. friend had been going thru depression when he got the advice but i tihnk its good regardless. i just need to kick myself in the ass and actually follow it lol
i listened to one of the jordan peterson audiobooks last year and it had some similar stuff in there. i think one of the examples was if you had let your paperwork pile up and were overwhelmed by the task, then start off with 1 or 2, just do some small piece and force yourself to come back to it and keep doing small pieces. probably can be adapted to a lot of stuff but my brain is shutting down for the day and can’t really think
Thank you man, it means alot. I have two cats. I’ve had dogs before and you are right about that. Having them forces you to get up out of bed bc you have to take care of them.
I see how it helps. Even though I don’t have to walk my cats, even though they have food and water, they’ll cry for me to get out of bed when I’m sleeping all day.
They knudge me and won’t shut up lol until I get up and at least open the curtains and turn the TV on.
logen@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
“Try to do something different” This is strong advice, however, I’d change to it “Go do something”
Doesn’t matter what it is, doesn’t have to be new, you just need to do.
Have a thought? Go do it instead of convincing yourself not to do it.
Super simple, yet still hard to do when… well… life is what it is.
ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
excellent point. it probably was closer to this originally based on how my freend described it
LarrySwinger@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
Obligatory.