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Met my goal. The black mood did not win.

Finda
Finda

I went for a 2 mile racewalk this morning and felt good while doing it. I had a bad mood last night and was very weepy, but I gave it some patience and sat with it, and felt the different parts of it crashing and sliding and drifting away and returning. Then counted my blessings and how amazing they are. Still felt rattled but it was late, and I decided nothing would get solved by not sleeping. So I put on an audiobook with a speaker under my pillow and went to sleep. A magnesium pill and camomile tea helped, plus wanting to have the energy to walk in the morning, as I will not exercise walk or run if I get less than 5 hours sleep (maybe a little stroll only). Anyway, in the morning I talked it out with my soul mate, and I felt better, had breakfast and coffee, and went for the walk. Still a little weepy, but that happens when a bad mood hits, takes a while to leave the body, the weeps. So I baked bread, made up pizza dough, fed cats, and other projects and work, and I feel ready to go on. Yay!! I have developed the walking exercise habit so that I NEED good sleep for it. And I almost NEED to walk or run because it is a good way to handle anxiety/depression. I say "almost NEED" because if or when I cannot exercise for some health reason, I will develop another "almost NEED" habit that requires me to SLEEP, EAT, TAKE CARE OF MYSELF and OTHERS if I can, so that I can continue that habit and my sanity. Maybe it would be PAINTING, maybe it would be SWIMMING, maybe it would be meeting up with a COFFEE group. SOMETHING!!!

Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
I found that a daily practice of meditation really helps with the bad moods.

Exercise is also like antidepressant medication. ....Keeping the heart rate just a little bit higher then normal for an extended period of time, will get the endorphins generated in the brain which numb the pain and make us feel good in a natural way...(You probably already know this stuff)

I find that the best time to exercise, for me is late in the day, just before dark. Then I have no trouble sleeping.

It sounds like you are doing all the right things ..I think it's important for people ourage, or any age as far as that goes , to stay active by doing the kinds of things we enjoy doing.

God Bless
Finda
Finda
Well, maybe I will try meditating again, which I did for about 5 years straight every morning for half an hour. But that was before I took meds. I meditated, exercised, ate properly, no drugs, journaled, went to therapy, and still I was depressed. Not until meds and cognitive therapy did I make a turn for the better. Anyway, since meds I have meditated off and on, up to a month at a time, but it did not become as essential to me as other habits. Sometimes seemed to calm me down but just another part of the arsenal against mental illness and not the whole enchilada. Well, neither is exercise. Perhaps I will try meditation again. Thanks, and take care.
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
You might want to look at the way you are mediting and how. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different ways to do it. I learned transcendental meditation back in my college days which was the one everyone was hooked on at the time. I only did it for a short period of time as the stress of college life, family and other issues took control of me, but since I got sober 12 years ago, I have slowly welcomed it back into my life.

I started with a guided meditation which I found on you tube but switched back to tm and mindful meditation which has helped me tremendously and opened up parts of myself which I never knew existed. Thanks to the daily practice, I no longer take antidepressent meds. . I no longer need them.
I highly recommend.

~~~Peace~~~
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