Every time I ask for help they say colour in or paint or go for a walk. This frustrates me. It’s not solving the problem its making me worse
Exercise can really help so walking at a brisk pace is good.
As to other things. Sz makes you introspective on the whole and obsessive about things that others don’t do. It’s not bad advice on the whole but I’d say taking your meds and exercise are two of the best things you can ever do for your health. Mental and physical.
They said I need to push the voices/thoughts away and distract but it’s too hard
Creativity is a Good Solution I Find Personally.
I Bought a Keyboard Not So Long Ago And I Still Have Yet to Immerse Myself Fully into it.
Constructive Patterns in Any Way Can Be Useful. As in Accomplishing Any Goals You May Have Set to The Side From Being Distracted by Your Obsolete Distractions.
Good Luck!.. . …
Honestly, there’s nothing that can fully distract me from my mood symptoms, so I understand.
They keep telling me to go out more - like at a local day centre. But im quite happy indoors, and im too unreliable for voluntary work. Im probably just lazy.
Quite often i will go a week without talking to anybody - but im used to it.
I see people in the flesh rarely - like once a fortnight.
But I phone family every day
Yeah. I know what you mean. Every time I call the crisis line they tell me to color too
Color does not help
I try and trick myself like this some times, I think it works.
I relieve my pain but only for a moment.
Because just sitting in your house for 16 hours a day doing nothing but obsessing about your illness is terrible for you. It doesn’t solve anything or help anything, it makes it worse. When you’re taking a walk or drawing you may still be thinking about your symptoms but not as much as when you lay in your bed or sit on the couch and just think all day.
It’s the long run that distracting will help too. Plainly put, it’s good to have experiences even if it’s just walking around the block. The last real time I had nothing to do was in 1989 when I was about 28 years old. I had got fired from my job and I was living in a house with my dad and he went to work at 7:30 am and didn’t get back until 4:30 pm.
I got up when he left every day and I had nothing to do and it was my worst times since my initial psychotic break in 1980. Oh man, it was terrible but at least now I know that about myself.
it is supposed to take your mind off of your problems for a while, i guess you have to enjoy it though, i’m not a great walker but sometimes short walks are nice, i am not very artistic either but i do other things to keep me out of my self for a while,
my music really cheers me up, i also like to have coffee, i try and give myself things to do like i go to a mental health clubhouse and we have a radio show so i’ve been planning that so thats a good way to focus on something else for me,
I find distraction does help me to forget about my sza symptoms. Not immediately but sooner or later
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