NOTE: You don’t need to share your private journal with everyone like I am!
Start with a negative thought and be realistically optimistic about it. Write down everything so that way you get it out of your head
I’m too lost in my mind.
Who said you had to be found? What’s wrong with being “lost in your mind”? Of course, it’s not preferable, but it’s the current reality. Do something with your body and set a written goal. Clean your room. Make a deal with yourself to not listen to every negative thought, and literally just go and do something.
I can’t think straight.
Forget about thinking straight or not thinking straight. Who said you had to “think straight”, and what is “straight thinking” anyways? Do something with your body, find a short-term purpose. Don’t dream too big because you’ll end up never taking the small steps.
I’m split off from myself. There’s nothing I can do to fix it.
How do you know there’s nothing you can do about it? Have you tried? No, you’ve been sitting in your room and the basement for the last two years thinking, and making lukewarm attempts to “get out” while all the while avoiding real discomfort.
I’m permanently a social retard.
Who told you that? Just because you suck at socializing at the moment, doesn’t mean you’ll never be good again. You never had problems socializing growing up. You have the foundation, but you isolated and that’s when deep pessimism set in. Go out there and embarrass yourself. You have nothing to lose. Your ego is so afraid of humiliation that it doesn’t want to even try. Go do it!
Of course, everybody, you don’t have to talk to yourself like how I did it. Do some form of this and I guarantee you’ll feel better.
I know taking action is hard. Just do it, though. I get stuck in thinking about action instead of doing it. As a practice and this may sound silly. Try moving your arm from left to right. There, you just took action. That’s how simple it was. Now just do that on a bigger scale.