The COVID news definitely made things worse. It made me more anxious, helpless, and depressed.Magnesium and other vitamin and mineral deficiencies are very real and causes problems, in your self assessment do you think your diet is poor and needs to be cleaned up?
No routine, schedule or daily rituals can put you in an awful state of mind.
Developing some habit can help alleviate stress, especially getting to sleep and getting up at a certain hour that you make a good effort to always stick to helps.
It's difficult; but for some, literally doing anything is better than letting time pass and overthinking and letting the anxiety creep upon you.
Are you always online? The great problem of being in a connected world is that constant stimulator is so easy with new novel information.
You can always change directions so quickly, we really aren't meant to be exposed to this. In normal conversation this isn't supposed to happen, unless you are talking to someone with ADHD.
I've notice just unplugging and reading a book, be it non-fiction to learn something you're interested you train yourself helps alleviates this stress.
So does a good novel or story.
The news is bad too, because it relies on always exposing you to the negative. COVID, COVID, COVID it's fucking boring realistically but there is always a wanting to learn the new numbers
Or learn to relax, some people just always need to be busy and don't know how to do nothing without worry.
Speaking of books I found this book "The Happiness Advantage" to have some interesting things to think about regarding mental health, and positive psychology.
Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin recommended it in one of his biographies.
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Okay; I'm a certified TERB doctor so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I really hope things start to get better.
I am online almost all the time, as there’s nothing else to do. I definitely think that this has something to do with my depression, and it’s making me sick and tired.
I am seriously thinking of moving to a Third World country such as Thailand, and living in the village. I just think it’s so much more wholesome, with lots of people, laughing,and an easy-going lifestyle. City life focusing on career, money, status, etc is making me isolated, miserable, depressed and sick