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What do you do to help when your mood is low?

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Sleepdeprived42long · 11/06/2022 09:50

Every few weeks I have days where I have low mood. Not triggered by anything. No underlying health reasons as confirmed by GP blood tests. I just wake up and feel exhausted, lacking in motivation to do anything, irritable etc. It usually passes after a few days. Exercise doesn’t seem to help unfortunately:-( There have been times where it’s went on for a few weeks and I’ve had seratriline(sp?) for a couple of weeks which has helped.

I wish there was something I could do to prevent it though as it’s so disruptive to my life! So what do you do to help if you have low mood? I think I need to try something different!

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palygold · 11/06/2022 13:07

99victoria · 11/06/2022 12:38

Went to see Sandi Toksvig last week - brilliant, obviously.

But at the end of the show she said when she feels a bit down she likes to put on Beethoven's 9th symphony and pretend she's conducting the orchestra playing it. She got us all to stand up and do it - it was brilliant fun! And obviously would work with all sorts of classical music 😁

That sounds brilliant!

Sleepdeprived42long · 11/06/2022 16:19

Oh my goodness thanks so much for all these suggestions-I will definitely give these a try. I don’t have periods as I have the merina coil but I was put on this due to PMDD. I think I naively thought no periods=can’t be hormone related but maybe I’m wrong 🤔Also slumps just sums it up!

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ScottishBeth · 11/06/2022 16:51

Someone suggested meditati9n and I was going to say the same. There are some brilliant meditations on the Insight Timer app (which is free) including one called 'Taming Your Inner Critic' which is usually one that helps me a lot.

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