Perhaps it is a good idea to revive this discussion with new ideas.
And today that new idea I like to introduce is "challenge". In the hope to give anyone a "side" goal in life as a work around to this illness.
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Call me narrow minded, but I've come to realise most of psychological ailments (though not all, as I do believe some are genetically inherited / indirectly linked) are due to the very fact we amply shaped ourselves in the very economic system we live in. Well, in other words -
money, being the problem in itself. How it in itself is an extremely disproportionate measure of commoditising and structuring our access and proximity to everything needed for sustenance - in which that I mean our own well being.
(more politics talk later)
Because coming from my experience; having been unemployed for nearly a year die-trying resetting up new self promotionals / new cvs. Spent countless days and nights and (more) money to get my names ahead of everyone else. At the same time chasing secondary / tertiary / fourth jobs even menial ones etc...whilst only freelancing a few work at a time,
and then trying to live on just $40 (sometimes less) on food per week alone have made me realised one thing to do that may help anyone go through hard times alone.
and that is - try to challenge yourself to something anew; a new way of life or a paradigm that even your circle/s would frown you upon. Especially your health and nutritional philosophy through self awareness and self education.
Ever since I went on keto (high fat / very low carb) - that diet literally changed me. I've first challenged myself to maintain the same routine training workouts day after day whilst restricting my budget to that low $$$ - I thought was going to die under the bar (srs). Especially when I had to put myself with so much less food than back when I was on carbs. But in the end after two years (on/off diet and seriously back at it again 3 months ago) to now - I had to
challenge myself even further for reworking my life around this regime.... And what comes out of it - this diet for some reason have sustained me and my mind better at managing those familiar "black dog" feeling/s or "passing train/s of loud-thoughts" within me.And that was me surviving on just less than $40 week on food.
In other words, I have challenged myself to something anew. Yes, perhaps I won't "get" a stable job from this and that it doesn't stop the bills from coming in to anyone's life.
But take this account perhaps as a side goal to your life that brings you implicit goals that only you can relate to. Nobody else's. For me - it's all about embracing Humility through Frugality - By self learning what I can about nutrition and self experimenting for what each nutritional paradigm means to my body.
Because at the very least - challenge gives you an incentive. An incentive to spark even small amount of curiosity that will take you places you've never been before.
Hell, after surviving all that (and still am) I'm right now even in the middle of writing my own self-accounts / self improvement manuscript
for a book. And never ever in my life I'd ever thought of being author before. Hoping that this "side" interest of goal would be something that would help anyone through any difficult times. It's almost 150 pages now.
All that happens because simply one thing - changing my diet and nutritional belief. And I wholeheartedly believe whenever you feel helpless, there is always something internally biological.
To me, it is nutritional - because almost everything on how you sustain yourself pivots from it. And this remains a challenge awaiting your attention to address it.
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Hope the above helps. Yes I'm prepared to listen all you complaining about my long blabber. But you wouldn't dare to if someone else already did this apart from me. Chances are that person would be anxious to tell you his/her story too.
