Have you ever snapped yourself out of a feeling low ? If so how did you do it ?

[GingerKittenTail]

Trying obvious stuff liek sticky upbeat things and listening to upbeat music exercise seeing friends

just looking for what others do to lift their mood

I'm sorry you're feeling low. When I feel like this I tend to give myself tiny goals and structuring my day helps a lot. And then recognising I've done the tiny steps.
Sorting sleep and going for walks helps .

Eat hot nutritious food. Stay away from news and social media. See friends. Watch goofy TV w kids. Sit in the sun (summer). Try to take a break for 30 minutes in the afternoon and cook/read a book (I work flexibly from home; work stress though and too much to do contribute to low mood).

I go through a mental gratitude list and this can help. I give thanks for my health, being employed, having a roof over my head, food on the table, and so on...

Feel the feelings

Thanks I do go on walks, see friends excercise etc

already avoid the news
thinking of taking a break from sm
I find when you don’t feel great it can make you feel worse as then you tend to interact less
and just lurk more
where as when you feel better and you are interacting on there it’s more as bad somehow

really need to work on my gratitude
tho

Yes.

Wrote a list of all the things i was happy about, and then all the things I was unhappy about.
I then saw that the unhappy list was much smaller, which helped.
And then I wrote down what could I do to change the unhappy things.

It was things like... I was overweight... Sort out a diet.

I was bored, so bored of an evening. Looked into volunteering, ended up a Girl Guiding Member.

I hated my flat... Looked for alternative accommodation

Etc

'snap out of it' sounds like it's a message from childhood.. and probably means you are judging yourself quite harshly for feeling low. Allow yourself to feel whatever it is that you are feeling ... and trust that it will pass, but that sometimes the only way out is 'through'. .... you can't bypass the feelings. Take care and look after basics while you are going through it ... and if you can't, try and be kind to yourself ...

I agree.

Wallow for a bit. Feel low, have a big cry. Have a duvet day if you can. Just be with it for a little while.

And then pursue the going for walks etc.

But feel the feelings first.

Yes to tiny goals. Acknowledge your achievement and recognise you are doing well. I write loads of very detailed to do lists so I can tick off actions and see progress.

acknowledge it’s ok to feel down sometimes in fact it’s normal, sometimes I think forcing yourself to feel gratitude just breeds resentment. It does with me anyway.

remember you have felt better and you have felt happy and that in time you will again. You may feel rubbish now but you won’t always.

I felt the feelings for a week or two then decided to do something about it. Asked my employer for reduced hours. Now LOVING having a Wednesday morning off. I walk the dog and do yoga with a group.

I have chronic pain and challenges with my son it can get me down but I work all the time on gratitude. Can be small things, I can taste delicious food, I can walk in the sun, I have family who love me, I can listen to beautiful music etc - we have thousands of things to feel gratitude for.

I use my body: I might change posture, drop my shoulders, breathe to relax or energise, move (could be anything from a forward fold to going for a run), locate the tension in my body and bring awareness to it to ask if the low feeling is masking another feeling.

Sometimes I still feel low but when that happens, I have a better sense of time passing and that feelings don't last for ever and aren't definitive: they're just one manifestation of a huge interlinked reality in my body, in my interpersonal relationships, in the wider world. And I find I want to be here.