What do you do when you've had enough? You know ... when you can't even pay attention to reruns of your favorite TV show, well ... at least the one you thought was your favorite. You don't feel like reading the News Feed on Facebook, you've lost your get-up-and-go in regards to everyday activities from cooking to shopping and traveling to work and spending time with friends ...
So and so checked in at Pickles Pub with three other people, so and so uploaded vacation pictures from a cruise, so and so humorously commented on the annoyingly hot weather ...
You sigh and realize you don't care enough to scroll down the page, you don't even care enough to log into Facebook.
Or maybe you're used to the routine and log into Facebook on autopilot or push play on a recorded episode of your favorite show, and then, a few minutes in, your apathy rears its ugly head. You're not paying attention. The humor is there, perhaps in a comment from an actor or typed by a friend on Facebook, but you don't laugh.
You don't want to turn on music, don't feel like reading ... the trailers for new movies, from the exciting "Conan the Barbarian" to the funny "Our Idiot Brother" to the frightening "Fright Night," who cares? You become Debbie Downer and think how expensive going to the movies has gotten, what a hassle it is to drive to the nicer theater a few towns over ... wah wah ...
First thought: you're depressed. Get yourself a quack asap. However, what if you're overloaded with life? Your cup has runneth over, you got too many toppings on your baked potato ...
Life is overwhelming. There are so many choices, so many people crammed on this Lonely Planet, so much b.s. filling your day. The economy is in the crapper for America as well as your wallet, politicians can't and won't compromise (which isn't shocking but still ridiculous), your job sucks but it's not like there are many jobs available (and it's not like you will ever do what you love or even know what that job would entail), gas prices are up again, it's hotter than Salma Hayek dancing on a waffle iron outside, and a robot that uses its own reasoning when presented with a task was recently unveiled which scares the crap out of me. Oh, yeah, and Bachelorette Ashely picked JP over Ben ... oh wait, who the f- cares? If that last bit of news causes you extreme emotional turmoil than I don't know how you can be helped. However, for the other bits of news, even if you're not thinking about these things it doesn't matter, they are lurking in the back of your mind.
Does anyone ever stop and think about why ... why you are mad or sad, happy or scared? You can let situations rule your roost or you can take the reins of your thoughts! Talk back to the sadness, to the anger, to the hurt and tell those thoughts to shut up (well, maybe don't do this in public). Talk yourself down when you get overwhelmed or distraught. When you are in bed worried you are embarking on another sleepless night tell the anxious thoughts there is nothing that can be solved right now, nothing that can be done. Tomorrow you will do what you can but right now it's pointless. You can wish upon a magic star to change things but it's better to work to get over the things you can't change since you could be wishing for the rest of your life.
Isn't it interesting how emotional turmoil can be more exhausting than physical turmoil? Well ... it's definitely a different kind of exhaustion and hard to compare because physical exercise can be good for you, it's a stress reliever that can help shed pounds, improve your mood, boost your energy, help you sleep and also help you be a better lover! Yeah, it sucks for the most part but the benefits are vast! Think of a workout as your antidepressant pill! Think of your sweat session as Prozac.
Although you should exercise your brain and some stress can be helpful, too much emotional turmoil can drain your body, especially with situations out of your control and situations you ignore and repress.
You need down time ... you reached overload capacity ... the "warning warning" part was days ago ... you are in Blah Land, Numb-ville, Sarcasm Way, Cynical Boulevard ...
What do you do? Do you have a go to? A good nights sleep? Maybe you're tired, overworked ... cause doesn't matter. Maybe you stay away from the people and places who cause you emotional distress. What I'm interested in is what you do.
Perhaps it's time to switch up your routine ... watch a different TV show, take a hiatus from Facebook, aka the look-at-me empire, and do something different. Do something that will elicit the opposite response of how you are feeling, i.e. if you are sad and blue, watch something hilarious, something to make you laugh.
Or perhaps it's the turmoil that makes us stronger, makes us change. It's the difficult times in our lives, the hurt, the sadness, the anger that fill us up until we almost burst, that makes us get fed up and tired of these negative emotions and want to change. Or maybe it's trying and failing to change time and time again until we finally realize we are never going to be happy all the time, never going to be totally happily-ever-after but that's OK. Stay strong!
Or maybe you never feel this way and are absolutely fabulous morning, noon and night. If that's the case, eat me.
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