What can I do to lift my spirits?

Question

Everything seems to be going wrong in my life, I can't stop crying. Any suggestions? Please be nice!

Answer 1

Watch a good (funny) movie. Have a glass of wine and call a good friend on the phone or write a good friend a letter.

Play with your kids and tell them how much you love them.
Take your kids and go for a walk/picnic.

Remember that everything in life happens for a reason, and as down as you are now, just know that It will only get better.
That and the fact that you woke up again this morning, means you have another wonderful day to be on this earth.

Answer 2

You may want to search Yahoo!Answers for this topic, as it is asked regularly, and has gotten some great answers.

Suggestion? Go to the kitchen now and get some protein, meat, a can of tuna (salmon is better) or whatever, and eat it. Also have some carbohydrate, like a handful of chips, an apple, or some carrots/celery, and also some nuts or peanut butter. Eat at least 2 ounces of the protein. Then drink a glass of water and do something active for 30 minutes, try singing if you don't feel like walking or exercising. You may find your mood has lightened a bit.

It could be that you are depressed. Depression has its roots in low blood sugar - something that happens to everybody every day, but for some it can hang around. For basic information on hypoglycemia, check out www.hufa.org. For information on its precursor condition – hyperinsulinemia – check out www.mayoclinic.com/health/hyperinsulinemia/.

I care, but still go eat something, now. If nothing else, it is hard to cry and chew at the same time. :)

Answer 3

"Make a systematic attempt to introduce more frequent and regular changes into your life. These should be changes that you can implement readily without too much effort. Here is an example: over a period of several weeks, Anatole R. called an old college friend he had not talked to for years, took a short vacation to a place he had never been to before, and visited for the first time a large, well-known used-book bookstore about 100 miles away from his home. The general idea is that if you are in something of a rut, try to break out of it.
"Find something important to do. Much boredom is associated with the idea that one's work or other activities are meaningless. Your life should not be seen as an endless round of routine with no long-range purpose. Rediscover meaning in your work, or consider making a career change. You might consider offering your services as a volunteer to a hospital or a school.
"Learn something new. Take an evening course at a community college in almost anything that presents a challenge and a mild psychological threat. By a psychological threat is meant something at which you just might fail. You will be forced to rise to the occasion, to use your intellect. The introduction of different ideas into your life helps to counter boredom.
"Take a child to a movie. Kay G. took her seven-year-old granddaughter to see the Walt Disney version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Kay saw the film in the 1930s and remembered it with fondness. She would have not enjoyed seeing it alone. However, taking her granddaughter to see it allowed her to share a memory and re-experience the story vicariously through a child's eyes.
"In general, learn to use fantasy in a constructive, creative way. Madame Bovary acted on her romantic fantasies in a destructive way. Instead, think of your fantasies as a kind of second psychological life, as a source of rich gratification. You do not have to insist that they materialize in the real world; the individual with a healthy personality makes a clear distinction between fantasy and reality.
"Recognize that feelings come and go. Some boredom is natural. Learn to tolerate it. Go on with your daily activities in spite of the boredom, and it will often lift and vanish.
"Think of boredom as coming from your child self. Imagine that you are the parent of an actual child who says, "I'm bored. There's nothing to do." How would you answer? Apply the answer to yourself.
"When you are bored, do not just sit and stare. Get up and engage in some motor activity. It can be almost anything from taking a short walk to sweeping a kitchen floor. Motor activity is antagonistic to boredom. It is much more difficult to be bored when you are moving. You cannot will away your boredom, but you can will your actions. The activity will feed back on the boredom, reducing its intensity.
"Use your intelligence. As earlier indicated, it has often been observed that intelligence is associated with boredom. It is possible that you have used your mind destructively to throw yourself into a psychological pit. The intelligent thing to do is certainly not to passively accept the pit as a trap. If your intelligence got you in, it can get you out. The really bright person realizes that the trap of boredom is a self-made one, and it can be dismantled with intelligence just as it was constructed by intelligence. Brainstorm the problem. Make your own list of coping strategies that are likely to work for you.


Most importantly find someone to love-it cures the soul of its wounds and dissolves its scars

Answer 4

Consult your physician about antidepressant with some kind of mood stablilizer (covers potential manic episode). Take fish oil, a teaspoon a day of the actual oil not the capsules will also help with mood stability and b12 complext liquid sublingual (under the tongue). Avoid romantic relationships for now, not good to have when you are down and not looking out for your own best interest.
Watch funny movies, turn off commercial tv and limit your exposure to news. Avoid turkey relationship, if it drains your spirits, dump it. Surround yourself with happy people, their enthusiasm will rub off on you. Find a church you like, if find more than one attend them all. Go to a greeting card store and read the funny cards, buy the ones you really like and keep them for yourself or send them to someone whose day needs to be brighten. The cards you keep, read one at the beginning of the day. Buy flowers take them home and put them in a vase for you to enjoy. Get sunshine everyday. Dance to your favorite music.

Seek and ye shall find, knock and the door will open. Get out and start knocking on doors.

Get your butt out of bed and fake it till you make it.

Answer 5

you just gotta tough things out. i am recently seperated from my wife of 10 years and we also have 2 kids. it's rough, but things get better each day. try to concentrate on a hobby or friends.....something else besides your problems.

"a man's strength is not measured by the weight he can lift but by the burdens he can carry"

"that which does not kill us will only make us stronger"

"life is like a box of chocolate.....you never know what you're gonna get"

and by the way, your 360 pics lifted my spirits, ya little cutie!

Answer 6

Well Hold on..observe how ur life's taking you..ponder over ur self..and know that u r unique in a million ways and remember u r the best.!!! dun give up..coz we just live once...and life is how we look at it and make it..dun cry...its not the solution to anything...fight it babe...God Bless.!!!

Answer 7

Jessica, I read your July 21st entry, and I feel for you. Try to fill the void that this split has created with positive activities and thoughts. This shouldn't be difficult, you have two beautiful boys!

You're a beautiful woman, and your thoughts (I read your entries) are kind and thoughtful. You won't be without someone to share your passions with for long :)

Blessings~

Answer 8

Talk to someone. Get what is bothering you off your chest. You don't say what happened so I cannot offer any advice on what is bothering you.

Best thing -- talk it out with a trusted friend or parent that loves you.

Good luck!

Answer 9

it sucks to be a human, huh? the fastest way to lift your spirits is to help someone, somehow
the only way to have love is to give it, and once you feel loved you will feel much better

Answer 10

look into the mirror, doll yourself up, and just repeat "you are beautiful". excercise some, listen to music that you like. just go enjoy yourself and life, life is too short to be worried about much.