This might sound crazy but this is helping me.
This is a difficult thing to deal with, the situation we’re in.
I’ve felt generally good the past few days. I feel like I’ve been mentally doing well and that’s helped me deal with the physical - maybe even helped some things improve, maybe not. But I felt generally good, that’s the main thing.
I read a lot of negative things today and immediately started to feel worse. As soon as I realised, I had to force myself into activity, both physical and mental. You have to fight this.
Your fight could be to exercise, to have a conversation, to not think about the negatives of your situation, to eat healthy food (I am sick of healthy food!), to make a plan to do something you like. Anything that you know will benefit you in some way, no matter how minor.
I had to say to myself “I’m not going to think about that” and took myself mentally away from what was troubling me. I feel better now than I did an hour ago. I am confident that I would have continued to feel bad had I not corrected myself.
I know some people here have a worse situation than me (equally some will have it better) and I’m sorry if this seems unrealistic. But, being positive will help you, far more than being negative.
If you disagree, please keep it to yourself. I need to be positive and I need other people to be positive too.
Remember: do everything you can to cope with your symptoms, focusing on the negative will not make your day better. You may not be able to control your situation but you can control your attitude to it.
Let’s do this. You are stronger than you think.