News and insights about GAD, depression, phobias, OCD and panic attacks
I haven’t posted here for a month already and I’ll tell you why: I was dealing with things that disturbed me.Although it can be hard, but trying to shift daily routine to think what actually worries you may be the start of yor self-therapy. You see: depression usually starts with: “I feel bad because of “. Later on it converts into “I feel bad because I feel bad because I feel bad….” – reasons – true and …
Now as we found the source of depression…Here’s the first point in our to-do list: learn to accept who you are and don’t distinguish either your good or bad traits from your personality.A common thing is: when you feel bad you start thinking about your handicaps, feel guilty, feel sorry for yourself just like these traits are something from outside and has nothing to do…
In step 1 you learnt to accept yourself as you are with all the good and bad sides of your personality (well I hope you did). Now what about other people. They are annoying, they are rude, they are.. they are what they are and most of the times you can do nothing about it. When a person does not want to change – it is almost impossible to to change her/him.Having read the above you can go sit in the corner and mourn about the unjust way of life. Which of course won’t help you. Or…
In parts 1 and 2 we have dealt with ourselves and people who surround us. Let’s now move to distracting objects. If you followed my advice – you should now have a list of disturbing things. Time to classify them. Divide the objects into the following groups or if you don’t have a list – then try to fill the following classification:- Memory triggers (photographs, presents, miscellanous objects in your room, music, videos…
Let us continue dealing with triggers. In the previous post I tried to explain what to do with memory triggers and annoying things. (And if you’re new here – here is the beginning of my self-help steps series).Today let us face web triggers and sensual triggers.Web triggersWeb triggers are those sites, blogs or communities which somehow worsen your mood. And if you decided to improve your mood and your state…
