5 Simple Ways to MotivateYour Self, If You’re Depressed and Stressed
Why you need to utilize these 5 steps to help yourself feel a lot better than your current state
Life can be hectic, and disconnected in these modern times, during this pandemic, it can be pretty stressful and depressing.
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even more when you have unhealed trauma and health issues. Mental health Decline is imminent if you don’t keep yourself in check. People around you might not even take you seriously and note that you should just suck it up.
Perhaps, they are the ones that should think before they speak.
You have been strong throughout this endeavour. I can relate it has been a really hard journey going through headaches and migraines perhaps now and then.
The constant feeling of that tremors in your head that just don’t go away.
It does feel like your life is just a cesspool of stress and problems one after another. It might even seem that you can’t handle it, But you can. You have done a great job so far handling all of the trauma by yourself.
You are nothing but a strong individual.
To deal with such kinds of symptoms without putting yourself into more of a hassle, I believe you can relieve yourself for a mere moment of these idle worries that haunt you every step of the day.
The sheer stress that you accumulate is something that can cause a lot of worry in your heart and mind. And I’m sure that you have been doing the best that you can.
But I believe there are somethings that I do every day that do help me ease my sufferings to a great extent when done, through a proper process. It doesn’t need to be following a strict schedule. You can improvise everything that I’m going to mention at will.
1. Get Enough Sleep
I know, I know like sleep is hard to come by when you’re stressed, perhaps you might even be suffering from insomnia thus it can cause a lot of issues for you.
I believe you can sleep for a day or two depending on how much time you need to rehabilitate yourself to feel energetic again.
It’s all about the body and the mind. Your mind can’t handle the emotional stress when you’re awake.
All the traumas you have experienced throws your mind into a state of disarray and thus you lose your sleep.
The best advice that I’d give is to not focus on these issues and perhaps to something to tire yourself out. I can’t suggest any other activity because of low motivation and even the drive that you lack at the moment. It is going to be hard to follow through but it isn’t impossible.
Drink warm milk, will help you ease yourself — In my opinion, eating something does help to fill your appetite thus the mind would be focused on an activity rather than the symptoms.
Consider it as a placebo, for your depression. It is good to fill your belly with food, and even a liquid and try focusing afterwards to sleep, hopefully, you will.
These short naps that will encompass a few hours now and then that you wake up will help you in rejuvenating your energy and also your mental self.
I know, it isn’t healthy; most people would say. But this is not about them, it is about you my dear. Your well-being matters. Stop worrying about their opinion, it doesn’t matter.
2. Eat something fresh
As the saying goes,
A healthy body has a healthy mind.
I believe depression and stress cause a poor appetite for things even if you don’t feel like eating, but you should eat some fruits to refresh your mood. I usually eat watermelons, as it usually helps to fight depression plus the watery texture, and the cool sensation while chowing down on melons is a sweet and fantastic feeling that does give you a sense of excitement and energy that will boost your mood.
Watermelon is a scientifically proven mood booster and elevator because it’s crammed generously with vitamin B6. Recent research has confirmed that people who suffered from chronic depression and anxiety have lower levels of vitamin B6.
Notable reasons to take watermelons are the benefits it provides such as,
- It’s packed with lycopene which is a super antioxidant preventing free radicals from harming your cells and playing with your safe framework.
- It relieves muscle soreness: A Spanish report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found that drinking watermelon squeeze or expending the organic product can genuinely be very calming after an exhausting exercise.
- It detoxifies your kidneys: This natural product continues to solidify kidneys since it contains a great deal of potassium, which is useful in clearing or washing off the harmful statements in the kidneys.
- Best suited for a refreshing breakfast: Because it’s meant to hydrate yourself with the essential nutrients to get your body pumping for the day. It can also be substituted as a quick snack during the day.
Thus, if you feel depressed or anxious, go and chomp down on some melons. 😝
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”― David Mamet, Boston Marriage
3. Go Outside
Staying inside can be a bit self imprisoning for some, and could become a frustration for many. The pale walls and the feeling of suffocation can drive you mad, and sad. Thus, I believe as soon as you wake up just wear your slippers and go outside for a brief walk.
These 20–30 minutes of prescribed walking can refresh your perspective. Leave everything that’s bothering you inside, and just start walking with nothing when you come outside. Fill the void, with nature’s bliss and calm breeze. Perhaps, pay respects to everything and everyone around you.
You’ll soon realize that your problems are just one speck of your entire existence when you accept them.
It will give you a certain amount of ease, thus breathe in and out and slowly release all the bent up frustration inside and breathe in nature’s air to refresh your senses and your mind.
A walk whenever you’re stressed can inevitably lower your stress, and increase your capacity to handle it more efficiently.
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you?
Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going?
Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change.
If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
4. Cold Shower Meditation with some soothing Music works miracles for you
There is nothing that meditation and a cold shower can't fix unless you have the flu, then the music works too, hehe; Hot shower anyone!
“Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.” ― Nolan Bushnell
I believe emptying your mind, in the cold precipice of a cold shower can actually help you work wonders for your headaches and even stress. I usually resort to this last option, in the end when I totally feel bummed out and I just sit there as the cold waterfalls on my head, as I listen to the water droplets falling on my head, as the water runs through every course of my body, as I become one with the water that's flowing through me. I let go of moving and even the itches nor the tensions that are decapitating my body and mind.
“I take showers to think.” ― J.R. Rim
Closing my eyes and relaxing to the sound around me as the water slowly gets flushed away in the sinkhole, as I perceive my worries as the water droplets being cleansed away with the soap, and foam of the craggy exterior that I shed away, removing the fears and doubts all while syncing my inner self with the outer calmness.
“I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.” ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
That feeling is definitely a stillness locked in time, as I reminisce my memories of old, as they slowly flashback remembering those times, and accepting where I am now is all because I didn’t give up.
Meditation is like activating a mental shower, meanwhile taking a cool shower, showering your senses with the music that runs through your soul unwinding each and every thread that defines you from your joy to your grief, an Infinitum that endlessly spreads without much effort.
I wanted to live, as the music runs through my soul slowly unbending my tension and stress, and the water cleansing away the raw and craggy exterior built up with all the tension I had accumulated all the while I was supposed to suck it up, was slowly being released away as fragment by fragment, piece by piece. As I slowly close my eyes, and just take deep calm breaths and focus entirely on becoming one with myself.
It becomes as if there was never something really bothering me, but there was. There is and it will disappear for you, hopefully as you relax from all the worries that are making you feel this way.
You will definitely feel better, afterwards when you rewind yourself through the activities that will reverse your self back to the peace that you are yearning for.
5. Self Reflect and write it down
A day does come to an end, as always perhaps it just began. In life, self-reflection is necessary if you want to improve your self and your circumstances in life, it not only will give you ample feedback but also answering different questions that you have towards your self and your experiences.
“People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I recollect my thoughts and put them down on a fine piece of paper if you lack paper you have a device in your hand perhaps you can open up a memo and start writing away your thoughts into words that you aspire, words that caused you grief.
“Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?” ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Feelings and emotions that cause you a sense of distress, write all of them down. Acceptance is necessary for you to move on. Accept that somethings perhaps most in your life, are not in your control but the ones that are, are the ones that you can use to not let these inconveniences affect you this badly.
“Mirrors: they show you what you lack, not what you have.” ― Marty Rubin
You have the power to ignore such means that will cause you to feel this low, and blue. It does help to a degree unless you’re surrounded by a cesspool of worries and problems, then my dear friend the best way to deal with them is by self-reflecting and acceptance.
Normalizing these aspects of your life, in the form of a routine will definitely make them tiny and insignificant as you’d be going through every day. and after some time they will become normal for you if you stick to a specific schedule doing everything stated and improvising as what you see fit.
“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.” ― Shelby Foote
Gain an outside perspective at times, if all else fails. Sometimes, you can get an answer to your problems when two minds brainstorm together. Thus, when there is a will, there is a way and you will find answers to your problems when you keep on looking forward.
In the end, as I am writing this down I want to say that even if things don’t work out, it is perfectly okay to give up sometimes. It is okay to feel this way, there are many like you here, like us. We are here to connect with one another, and perhaps in this pandemic, we can use technology as a means to connect with one another, we have similar problems, and we can exchange our solutions. We have disabilities, and we might even miss the point entirely but all in good time.
Thank you for taking the time to read this anecdotal guide, I believe it might ease your suffering to a certain degree. It took me a few days before I started feeling good, but this definitely will help those looking forward to relieving themselves.
Stay Blessed and Stay Safe!
Peace, Love, and Happiness onto you!
