Best 3 topic self care ideas and coping.

Best 3 topic self care ideas and coping.

Coping with Chronic Pain

Chronic pain can impact your life, making it difficult to concentrate, hard to work or do the day to day activities that you used to. But living with chronic pain doesn’t have to be something that takes over your life.

By using self-care strategies, you can cope with chronic pain and find some relief. Self-care will help you be able to make it through the times when you feel like you can’t make it through one more day.

Understand that you’ll have ups and downs. On the bad days, it can affect your mood and when you get down emotionally, that can make it harder to deal with the pain. Find uplifting songs to listen to that calm your mind.

Don’t bottle up what you’re feeling or what you’re going through. It’s important that you express what it is you’re dealing with. Some people choose to do this by writing a blog where they talk about their struggles.

Other people write down what they’re feeling in a diary. This is a good way to cope with the stress that often accompanies living with chronic pain. Trying to tough it out and go through it alone is a mistake.

You might feel like you don’t want to “burden” anyone by what you’re experiencing but it’s important that you reach out to friends and loved ones and let them know. Even though there may not be anything that they can do, they can listen and offer you emotional support.

Make sure you’re keeping up with your healthy habits. Eat a healthy diet and exercise. You may not want to exercise, especially on bad days, but it really can help because it boosts your mood.

Don’t let bad habits make your chronic pain even worse. If you don’t get enough sleep, this can make pain worse. Don’t focus on what you could be doing if only you weren’t dealing with the pain.

Accept your body for the way it is. Don’t allow yourself to be jealous of people who seemingly have good health. It doesn’t change anything and it’ll only drag you down.
Hiding your condition isn’t helpful.

It’s okay to let others know that you’re in pain – especially if it’s someone whose life is impacted by your situation. This might be a relative or your boss or your romantic partner.

It’s okay to talk about how you feel but be careful that you don’t constantly complain. Negativity doesn’t help. When you’re hurting, you might want to withdraw and just stay at home because it’s easier. This can cause you to start limiting your life. Don’t let the pain keep you stuck at home and don’t let it make you give up doing the activities that you enjoy.

Coping with Loneliness

Loneliness can happen to anyone at any time. It can be acerbated by special events or holidays. While many people experience it, most don’t acknowledge the feeling, so they don’t truly deal with it.

But there are ways that you can cope with loneliness in a nurturing way that’s based on self-care. Try to determine what’s causing your loneliness, because sometimes you can be surrounded by people, but still lonely.

Knowing this can help you figure out what to do about it. Understand that just because you may feel lonely, it doesn’t mean that you’re alone. Recognize that loneliness can make you entertain thoughts that are false.

Sometimes the heaviness of the emotion can trick you into thinking that you’re alone in life or alone in whatever you’re going through. Loneliness can fool you into thinking that no cares about you or that you’re somehow defective, which is why you feel all alone.

It can make you feel like pulling away from other people. Feeling lonely can cause you to create scenarios in your mind that aren’t true – such as someone wasn’t able to spend time with you because they don’t like you or someone didn’t return a phone call or email because they don’t think you’re important.

This is imagining the worst, and it’s a side effect of your emotions as they’re processed. Pay attention when you have thoughts that are negative and make you feel like withdrawing, then take action.

What you have to do is refute the negative and reaffirm the positive – that you’re not alone and that you’re not defective. Have a self-care plan in place so that when loneliness does strike, you can handle it.

Make yourself get out and go to activities and meet new people. Look for groups or classes that you can join where you have a common interest such as photography, scrapbooking, exercise or art class, gardening, etc.

You’ll forge new relationships. Spend some time volunteering. When you’re helping people, it helps you. Doing something for others makes you feel better and it alleviates loneliness.

If it’s not possible for you to get out and about, then look for people or groups online that you can connect with. Another way to practice self-care to help cope with loneliness is to adopt a pet.

Caring for a pet is known to alleviate loneliness. Many people report that caring for a pet makes them feel loved. Plus, having a pet offers many other benefits such as allowing you to meet and befriend other pet owners.

Coping with Getting Older

Someone once said that getting older isn’t for cowards. That’s because there’s nothing easy about aging. Your body is going through changes and at the same time, your new normal is shifting.

You may suddenly become an empty nester. You may face retirement. All of a sudden you may be dealing with health challenges. You may have a get-up and go spirit but your body isn’t on board with that.

You might find yourself unable to participate in the things that you used to do with the same ease of movement. That bothers you because you don’t feel any different emotionally that you did when you were a young twenty-something.

Sure, you have more wisdom and probably a lot more money and you’re better established in life. You feel like you, but you don’t think you look like the inner you. You realize that there are wrinkles on your face.

Your neck is sagging. Your hands have age spots. If realizing this hits you out of the blue, it can be like a slap in the face. You may be shocked to discover that outwardly, you look older – and question, “When did all that happen?”

For some people, getting older is a time of uncertainty about the future and it can also be a cause of depression because it can represent a loss – the loss of youth, the loss of certain physical abilities, and the loss of what was once normal.

You may grieve your youth and that’s okay. It’s normal to feel a sense of loss. But don’t stay mired in what used to be. Instead, practice self-care by embracing what’s to come and taking care of your physical and mental well being more than you ever have before.

There are many positive aspects of getting older, and focusing on that can help you cope. Realize that now that you’re older and more established, you can do whatever you want. You don’t have little kids to take care of. You can take off on a moment’s notice and go out of town on a weekend trip.

You can catch a movie whenever you want. You can change jobs, get a job, go back to college, take classes, go dancing, move to a different state, or travel. Whatever you want!

Do what makes you feel fulfilled and happy. Your life can be molded into whatever you want it to be. You’re not too old to head in any direction that you want. Practice self-care by spending time with people who are positive and who make you laugh, and it doesn’t have to be people your age, either.

Embrace this new stage of your life and live it on your terms. Discard anyone’s perception or opinion that you have to slow down or can’t do something because of your age. Age is just a number, not a controlling factor in how you live your life. That’s up to you.