- sleep when i'm tired at night; don't stay up till it's early for no reason
- also, just sleep--more and earlier
- start reading for pleasure again
- lose myself in a hobby, in order to keep myself busy and not let my mind wander to anxiety-increasing things
- do not relentlessly tell myself "i can't"
- stop apologizing needlessly
- write in my journals
- namely, continue to keep my mental health journal and with more regularity
- believe that my mental illnesses are real, but also believe that they do not define me or make me any less of a human being
- eat better/more
- build the sheet fort and sit/lay in the dark
- take naps when i can
- when possible, do not force myself to sit with and listen to the people who upset me
- leave detrimental situations
- bake cakes
- forgive others
- spend less time on facebook
- spend less time online
- take walks, leave the room sometimes, not necessarily to be with people, but so i can move
- raise my blood pressure, so i do not get faint
- be okay with repeatedly changing my mind
- actually use the art supplies that i buy!
- write things by hand
- have a good, cathartic cry regularly
- read through the list of things i like about myself whenever i need to
- drink more water!
- write myself love poems when my self-esteem is awful
jan 15 2012 ∞
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