During a very dark period, what was the best thing you ever did for your mental health?

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Exercise, reading good books, binge watching shows and video games.

 

[ignorethis]

Good woman
Lift weights and hoop
Stop jacking off
Video games

 

[MyApps]

Exercise, watching funny shows, and positive affirmations

 

[T. Dubb Ya]

Therapy and exercise.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Long conversations with people who are good listeners.

Created routines and forced myself to get off my ass and follow them. (Exercise, reading, prayer, cooking meals, chores, etc.)


The important part is not saying, "I'm going to exercise", which can come and go so easily, but instead, "I'm going to exercise at 6:30am every monday, wednesday, and friday" and then keep it going for at least two months.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Deleted Facebook

 

[martin_van_nostrand]

Volunteered my time helping others
Joined a group of other blokes that met virtually every week to get things off our chests
Found someone to talk to
Broke up with my girl at the time

 

[inndaskKy]

Spend time with young children in your life if there are any. Put a smile on their face and just observe them. Then remember that every grown person who ever lived was once that old.

"The biggest man you ever did see was once a baby in this life" – Bob Marley

 

[EVILRICO]

Run

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Left my wife.

 

[International Playa]

Stopped porn, cleaned my house, cooked my fav meal, binged my fav shows, fav music

 

[Striving For Greatness]

Lions mane, moringa, multi vitamin, and vitamin d3

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

I think too much to meditate. shyt does nothing for me

you are supposed to actually keep your eyes open and focus on a spot a few feet away from you.

I find that doing this made getting in the meditative zone a lot easier, when I closed my eyes I would always start thinking about stuff.

 

[maxamusa]

New environment. If your physical environment isn't a part of the problem then take a trip. But like to the desert or something. Real remote shyt. Disconnect from everything phone all that. Isolation and no influences will have you being real honest.

And if you're adventurous throw some shrooms, peyote, or acid in the mix

 

[Van Cleef]

read this Voltaire quote “Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”