Your Mental Health

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snyps said:

My mental health is quite bad actually. I've known for a long time but resisted therapy until today. I just got back from my first session ever and I really liked it. I wish I had done it sooner. I was doing well for a while though, and tried various morning routines but couldn't stick to one for long. I want to give and receive love, have a job I'm happy at, and be independent.

I've found that coffee is addicting to where if I try to not have any I become hypochondriac or something. I'm drinking scarlet tea instead now and it's somewhere in the middle. Hoping to quit caffeine. I lost my job at Rockstar and then at Nintendo. I'm starting work at Xbox as a game tester. I'm having major girl trouble atm. And I want to move out but am scared.

Since losing my job/girlfriend, feeling uncertain about my future.. and quitting caffeine.. My muscles are burning and tingling. I'm depressed, anxious, and fatigued. I'm nauseous, with stomach aches. I have insomnia and lucid dreams. I have headache and foggy brain. There's a huge knot in my stomach. It took this to finally motivate me into therapy. Im glad, I definately found the right guy.

I did therapy for about half a year, then I mentioned a few political comments, nothing that specific really, and my therapist couldn't help but emotionally react. it was awkward. So I stopped going and just recently started this past week so go figure!

It's definitely very helpful. There is a delay effect in every habit, emotion, and activity we partake in, whether positive or negative - only after some time can yous ee the true benefit, so if you're pretty certain you made a good habit of something but with no tangible consequence, keep doing it. Same for stopping bad habits.

Also, when my health has gone south in the past it always seems to manifest itself in the stomach, and skin for acne sufferers like myself, though I don't fancy that word "sufferer." Even mroe so now that I'm on the brink of extinguishing it out of my life through intense(but reasonable) daily exercise, good food(organic! not expensive), mental stimulation(novelty, the point of this thread), and now trying to solve the "socializing" puzzle. Oh, and the job thing of course.

And don't get me started on relationship troubles, btu at least that's one thing every human can relate to! ;)