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2016 has been a year of bad days for me. For some reason I have been emulating Eeyore, a black cloud seems to follow me everywhere. I found myself in a funk. I was dealing with health problems, new diagnoses, money issues, work deadlines, teenage drama and friends showing true colors – most of them not great colors mind you. My panic and anxiety was getting bad. My mind needed a break bad.
When you’re having a bad day with your mental health, what do you do to help yourself?
When I was younger and arthritis hadn’t settled into my hands I would crochet like a mad woman. Crocheting helped me quit smoking, have less panic attacks and gave me a sense of accomplishment. I can’t do that everyday anymore so I had to find something else to occupy my mind and hands. I needed a way to retreat. Enter tablet cooking games.
I am in love with these games. While other people may see them as silly or a time waste, I see them as a needed escape. They keep your mind and hands busy. Since you have to use strategy and hand coordination it makes my brain work! They even have a Gordon Ramsey version that is awesome because he yells at you. It makes me feel like I am right in Hell’s Kitchen! In the morning if I am feeling sluggish or Fibro is giving me brain fog I play them to wake up my brain. At night if I have had a really bad day and I need to get my mind off of things, I play the games. By the time I am done all I am thinking about is getting the orders to the customers or annoyed I ran out of groceries to play. It’s a total guilty pleasure.
If I am in too much pain to play a game or even sit up and I have had a particularly bad day, laying on my bed in the dark listening to music is a necessity. I have done it since I was old enough to buy my first walkman. Music soothes my soul in a way nothing else can. If any of you follow me on Instagram you have probably figured that out. I post music lyrics frequently.
So, what gets you through? Are you a tactile person like me, do you binge watch Gilmore Girls or does a good cup of cocoa put you in a happy place?
