Endorphins rush through my body, I can feel the muscles burning in such a good day, and my mind clears. The truth is, though, that when I do exercise, I feel like I am free. I hate it, and wish it had never been invented because it is not something I am good at or enjoy. Treat yourself from time to time, but try to maintain healthy eating and drinking (which is also extremely hard to do at #Christmas with all those lovely Quality Streets running around shouting “Eat Me!”) where possible. Regular doses of healthy food and drinks can help to make you feel stronger in many ways. Secondly, your diet can have a huge effect on how you feel physically and mentally. However, you are still alive, and can still make changes now so that the future turns out much better for you. Maybe giving up seems like an option, because the future seems terrible. Yes, your home may be at risk, or you’re not on good terms with your parents, or a relationship has broken down. The ability to get back in the moment despite the rush of thoughts and emotions is a gift like no other. It’s a silly reaction because that actually causes people to neglect me, abandon me, which again causes me to feel like rubbish.įirst of all, mindfulness is a key tool in survival. If I feel neglected, abandoned, or rubbish about myself, then my go-to reaction is to shut off from the people making me feel that way. I will also change my behaviour according to my emotions. If I’m honest with myself, I’m the person to expect things from people that I’ve already learned not to expect much from. Addiction is hard, and that’s harder to cope with for many reasons, one of which being the emotional expectations surrounding the time to be merry. Addiction is painful, but tricks you into thinking it actually helps to ease the pain. It claims to love you and yet it drags you down into your worst place. The game played by these people every day is called “Get money, get drugs, get high” and it really is as simple as that.Īddiction is a powerful enemy that poses as a friend. With all the emotion and expectation surrounding Christmas, can you try to imagine how difficult the Holidays can be for those who struggle with a generic Tuesday? Whamageddon is not a game played by the homeless population, nor by those living in extremely chaotic hostels. We do not have a writer setting our path for us, and we do not have producers and directors looking out for us, editing out mistakes and making the world seem perfect.Ĭhristmas is hard for lots of people, and the situations that life offers us can make this much, much harder to deal with.

Our lives are not so well laid out, however. My point is that these things are all written, fictional dramas with happy endings decided before a word had even been written. In Love Actually, Alan Rickman’s character cheats on his wife, but if you watch Die Hard immediately after, then he finally gets his comeuppance.

In Home Alone, Kevin’s family returns and shows him that they really do care about him. In The Santa Clause, for example, Tim Allen becomes Santa.

The movies would suggest that everything always works out. ' Why is it that “this time of year” can be either so wonderful, or entirely lonely and desperate?' What other support is available from BoB?

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