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What's up, guys. I'm gonna straight up rip off @heavy_industry with this thread, so I'll probably get sued soon. Basically, I'm going to be doing a progress thread on getting out of a very big slump I've been in for a the past few months. What I'm going to do is find what has worked for me in the past and condense it into actions I can take every day.
Long story short, I went through a very heavy mental burnout, health crisis and existential crisis this year back in March. All at once. It was as if I had suppressed so much negative energy it just blew up in my face. There were a lot of signs before this (panic attacks, fatigue, tachycardia, trouble breathing, disassociation, trouble concentrating, etc) all of which I chose to ignore because I got cocky. Needless to say, the stress, anxiety and depression I felt were astronomical.
I feel much better and the progress I've made has been amazing. However, depression, intrusive thoughts and anxiety still creep its head every now and then plus I've been somewhat apathetic about a lot of things for about 2 months. I'm going to change that.
I've had some very good days of good/normal moods, energy and relaxedness. I've managed to find a pattern of when I have these good days (I found the pattern thanks to CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy]):
-A good bedtime routine: Meditation/Prayer, Journaling, Wim Hof Breathing Method, reading, CBT.
-A good morning routine: Same as above + a little exercise and cold shower.
-Momentum. It's what I call taking initiative about whatever I have to do right in front of me (whether it's cold calling, socializing, manual labor, dealing with a client, etc.)
-Good Stress Management. This means I didn't let something stressful affect me more than it needed to or not at all.
Okay. So this is a good start. I'm not expecting every day to be amazing just by doing this but it was remarkable to me that some of my 2 best days of 2022 had these things in them. Next, I'm gonna be outlining what it was that I did back in my existential crisis that helped me cope or beat very intense depression and anxiety that I didn't necessarily outline or organize in this post.
Long story short, I went through a very heavy mental burnout, health crisis and existential crisis this year back in March. All at once. It was as if I had suppressed so much negative energy it just blew up in my face. There were a lot of signs before this (panic attacks, fatigue, tachycardia, trouble breathing, disassociation, trouble concentrating, etc) all of which I chose to ignore because I got cocky. Needless to say, the stress, anxiety and depression I felt were astronomical.
I feel much better and the progress I've made has been amazing. However, depression, intrusive thoughts and anxiety still creep its head every now and then plus I've been somewhat apathetic about a lot of things for about 2 months. I'm going to change that.
I've had some very good days of good/normal moods, energy and relaxedness. I've managed to find a pattern of when I have these good days (I found the pattern thanks to CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy]):
-A good bedtime routine: Meditation/Prayer, Journaling, Wim Hof Breathing Method, reading, CBT.
-A good morning routine: Same as above + a little exercise and cold shower.
-Momentum. It's what I call taking initiative about whatever I have to do right in front of me (whether it's cold calling, socializing, manual labor, dealing with a client, etc.)
-Good Stress Management. This means I didn't let something stressful affect me more than it needed to or not at all.
Okay. So this is a good start. I'm not expecting every day to be amazing just by doing this but it was remarkable to me that some of my 2 best days of 2022 had these things in them. Next, I'm gonna be outlining what it was that I did back in my existential crisis that helped me cope or beat very intense depression and anxiety that I didn't necessarily outline or organize in this post.
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