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Activities to Help You Cling to Sanity
Staying out of the depression hole or off the anxiety tight rope can be a real challenge.
If you are privileged enough you can see a doctor, take medicine, and find support from others. Those things are great, but sometimes you need some small ideas to try at home.
I have compiled a list of activities I find useful when I’m trying to stave off the blues or the scare-zies. Let’s think beyond bubble baths and manicures. These are actually helpful for me. I don’t know why they work, and I am most certainly not a doctor, but perhaps you might find them useful too.
Direct yourself to the nearest potable water source. Fill a cup HALF full of water. That’s right you only want it half full because the world is really hard right now and a full cup of water is just too much. Drink the half cup of water. Slam it down on the table because you are victorious. Walk away, rehydrated and slightly better able to face the day’s demons.
Go outside. Find some grass that no dog has recently used as a bathroom. Take off your shoes and just stand in the grass. Bonus points if the sun is out and you can take in a few rays. Breathe deep. See what you can smell, hopefully it isn’t the scent of decaying garbage. But if it is at least it’s proof you are still here…
