How do you stay happy when you have to work long hours and because of it don't have many friends to do things with, or if your friends are in a similar boat and not so happy either? And how do you stop thinking about stuff bothering you when you don't have anything to do?
2006-09-14 22:26:06 · 5 answers · asked by Depressed 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
work on a plan to get out of the situation ora tleast ameliorate it. Look into studies or other jobs. Look into reducing your consumption of goods/services so you could afford less hours of work. develop a hobby that wont take too muchtime and you can look forward to it. you must formulate a plan to get out, even if its small steps at atime. Check out a book about depression at library, like "feeling good". Read a small amt per day and follow steps as instructed.
. Watch a funny video-(have u seen "what about Bob" starring Bill Murray?)
Keep at it. chin up
2006-09-14 22:35:18 · answer #1 · answered by FoudaFaFa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A book of affirmations at work for during breaks reading...anything that's uplifting. Develope an outlook of gratitude...keep your eyes open to see how bad other people in the world have things compared to you...this stops self-pity (I just have to think of the ads on TV showing little kids walking around barefoot and hungry in third world countries to feel grateful that my families children don't have to). Smile for 20 seconds in private...you'd be amazed, but you can't feel sad if you do that.
I am a member of a group that supports each other and I contact a member of that group and chat when feeling down or 'itchy'.
Read things that take you out of yourself...lately I read "The Famine Ships", a chronicle of the great famine in Ireland and the migration to America and all the garbage those poor people endured...but they finally won out in the end. I find that reading about others courage in the face of difficulty helps me deal with stuff in life too. Just a few thoughts, good luck.
2006-09-15 05:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First try to get small breaks in the work if possible. Develop a hobby which you can do at your leisure times, however small it may be. During the work, take few seconds to do breathing practice, and assure yourself that you are cheerful. I hope these things will help you in getting a way out of your boredom due to work. You yourself will be able to make a way out.
All the best.
2006-09-15 05:37:18 · answer #3 · answered by natanan_56 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boredom is an unpleasant state of mind in which one interprets one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking stimuli. There is an inherent hopelessness in boredom; people will expend considerable effort to prevent or remedy it, yet in many circumstances it is accepted as an inevitable suffering to be endured. A common way to escape boredom is through creative thoughts or daydreaming.
"Arthur Schopenhauer used the existence of boredom in an attempt to prove the vanity of human existence, stating: "For if life, in the desire for which our essence and existence consists, possessed in itself a positive value and real content, there would be no such thing as boredom: mere existence would fulfil and satisfy us"."
2006-09-15 16:20:25 · answer #4 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're in a rut. Happens. You have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps on just the might of your will alone. And you need a plan. Make it a plan full of adventure and thrills. Life's short. Savor it. Begin by having some sex.
2006-09-15 05:51:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋