robzo100 said:
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.
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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! ;)
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Good to know. I tried all sides of politics and finally resigned my interest in it. So my neutral stance will make it simpler. Gratz on going back this week! It's a great thing to pour out any troubled things in our head on someone who can decern a proper course. Rather than dumping it on the people in our daily lives.. it's not fair to them and their reactions may not be the thing we're looking for.
I will be starting a variation of your morning routine incoporating Brain Age 3DS. I was using the game at the begining of the year and it worked wonders and I thought I was done with it but the results diminished when I stopped. It's true to stick things out and thanks for the perspective. I'll find a way to stay firm. Best to you as well.
I was an acne sufferer throughout adolescence. Now it's all stomach ache and weakness. I decided to stop porn for 5 months and lost my girlfriend privilages. It's been a month without fapping. (hope you don't mind me going there but it's definitely tied to mental health). I've concluded that porn has wired my brain to be ultrasensitized to lustful pleasure, desensitized to the gratification of socialization, and caused an issue with storing and retrieving memories in my frontal lobe. yourbrainonporn.com
One thing that helped me a lot for finding a girlfriend and friends, something i avoided my whole life, church. I started going to Unitarian Church last spring. They are non denominational so it's made up of atheists, jews, christians, muslims, buddhists, you name it. It's been totally awesome. I met many cool people and got a girlfriend very fast by asking a girl out for coffee the day I met her. Just throwing that out there incase it's helpful.
