Good tips
@SinisterKid. I have, for the most of my adult life, been more mindful. I meditate but even though I have gotten pretty good at it over the years, with worsening my state of being I feel like a beginner again. You actually get more anxious when you first start meditate, it is a common thing and a reason why so many people quit. But if you last, it gets better.
I am jealous with your "reading". I used to be a vivid reader and now I can barely read an article. My concentration is gone. It is the worst during school semesters. I am the forever-student as one of my sisters call me and also a perfectionist which with these illnesses is not a great combo. Each semester I swear I will never take another one, yet usually I do.
I LOVE music, I play mental tapes, like movies of how I imagine my life to be. Since film/cinema has been my number one passion since a very early age I also find some comfort in that. I think actually that may have been one of the reasons for me to become interested in acting when I was small --- to escape the reality and to be someone else.
Lately (these past two weeks) I have been binging on The Walking Dead. I know I am way overdue. I had heard about the show when it started, everyone was watching it and talking about it. The fact it has zombies made me not interested ... but then I started watching the spin off Fear the Walking Dead" and liked it so naturally went to watch this. Man, what a ride. I often think about how it would be to live under those circumstances and sure it is horrible but I have come to a conclusion that perhaps "we" who suffer from these illnesses and are often times living in our heads would actually thrive in it ... well we would be better equipped for that life.
I have a guilty pleasure and that is Pretty Little Liars. It reminds me my teenage years when we would watch Dawson's Creek --- without the crime. I do not have TV, gave it away but I do watch shows and movies on my laptop.
The one distraction that has worked for me (and the people who suffer too) is sleeping. It is by far not productive at all but at least I do not feel the pain.
- seeker