If you are feeling a bit 'low' how do you pick yourself up again before things spiral?

[SlightlyMadScientist]

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I dunno really. Lack of moral and motivation.

Not depressed (I did consider a different board) - but don't want to be depressed IYSWIM.

How low are we talking?

Feel good music normally perks me up a bit when things are getting a bit much. Also the company of good friends helps to take my mind of things.

Make sure I have plenty of early nights.

Make sure I'm drinking plenty of water.

Make a list of all the things I HAVE to do, get them done and don't worry about the rest.

Hmm - I don't really do music, MN is normally my 'out' but it ain't working.

have a bit of me time - crappy women's magazine and a coffee in a cafe on my own.

Early night with a good book and a large bar of choc

go to the gym

SMS, I don't suffer depression per se but this is what helps me when I feel low. I have a couple of scrapbooks in which I stick pictures that I really like - postcards, things I cut out from magazines, sometimes the odd quote that seems really apt. If I'm feeling down then I go and have a flick through these books and it really does help to "lift" me. I call them my happy books. I also find it very therapeutic to collect up a pile of pictures, cut them out nicely and arrange them on the pages. Btw this is not "scrapbooking" as in the craft hobby, this is a bog standard cartridge paper scrapbook from WhSmith and a tube of pritt stick - no artistry involved