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This can help with anxiety or unpleasant situations or whatever but it helps me most on bad chronic illness days when i feel completely sick or in pain or wiped out and start lowkey panicking about how the rest of my day is going to be fucked because iām flaring up.
Rather than spiral about whatās wrong, I do one thingāforce myself to eat a little, hydrate, take one of my rescue meds, just lie down perfectly still, whateverāthen wait 30 minutes before letting myself reevaluate how I feel and if further action is needed. I know it sounds obvious and kinda robotic but it really helps with the overwhelm/letting goā¦ and most bodily pain/discomfort changes at least somewhat in 30 minutes!
Jun 12, 2025
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i like to ask myself āhave i eaten within the last 4 hrs? have i drank enough water? am i overwhelmed by my environment?ā and making sure those things are taken care of helps a lot with my own irritability that i didnāt realize was there.Ā
taking a short 5 min. walk does a lot for ur mood, especially in the sunlight (as cliche and overused that advice is). and if i have no more energy and all else fails, i force myself to take a nap. when i canāt sleep, i do breathing exercises, and that helps me feel more calm too.
i hope that helps a little bit!! i feel ur struggle and i believe in u š«¶š good luck
Mar 6, 2025
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i think that thereās a level to which this is possible physically (calling out sick or skipping class if youāre a student or whatever) but even if thatās not possible emotionally checking out + going through the motions and making space and time for your recovery afterwards is almost always how you beat a bad day
for me if the vibes are atrocious beyond reason iāll call out of work, clean my apartment, then go for a walk, go to the jewish deli and get an egg + pastrami hash on a kaiser roll and a coffee, then go home and either watch tv, play video games, and if iām feeling up to it later do some kind of writing or reading or other enrichment activity (and sometimes enrichment just isnāt on the table at thatās cool too)
whatever your comfort rituals / little treats are, pull out all the stops and really just stop for a second, take a breath, and let yourself just be, and itās guaranteed to make getting through it easier by making the day less hard, or giving yourself something to look forward to afterwards
Apr 4, 2024
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Obviously weāre all so different, but that also means itās hard to give advice because how we process stress / how it manifests physically / how we soothe it can vary so much from person to person, and even season to season. Iāve learned to take advice and TRY EVERYTHING until I find what works for me. In my experience itās better to try 10 different things to weed out what works for you than to pick & choose what you think will work. Just try whatever is feasible from what we recommend!
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Microdose gummies were a huge help for me in certain seasons. I am not a person that wants to get high; I donāt have anything against it, just donāt do it myself. The microdose is so so so low that you donāt feel it. If anything, the ones I took felt like a light melatonin feeling. Helped me calm down a lot and often helped me sleep.
Baths were huge in certain seasons. Add some salt, dim the lights, play some ambient sounds or your fav calm album, and fully submerge into the void.
Long drives are how I make sense of lifeās puzzles. I often take the long way home if I think the extra time will help me arrive at a calmer state. I always find myself enjoying the local traffic, getting to really look at my surroundings, using red lights to breathe and refocus my thoughts.
3 practical things that are relatively easy to do. I think anxiety / stress rob you of your time and energy. Iāve spent so much of my life under stress only to get through the very thing that stressed me and realize that I had nothing to worry about. I lost days, weeks, maybe months to stress and anxiousness. At this point in my life Iām very aggressive about not living life with stress or anxiety in the drivers seat. Itās my life to enjoy and I only get one and I want as much of it as possible to be filled with joy / happiness / peace. Hope that helps! Sending you good thoughts + prayers + vibes.
Apr 10, 2024
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bc itās what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but Iām just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English coursesābarely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
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the only place i win the social interaction
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conflusional. delonfident, even
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