How do you protect yourself?

Did something happen to you? You don’t have to say what it is but I hope you are ok.

Psychologists have identified five ways to protect wellbeing. 

• Connect with others
• Be active
• Try something new 
• Give to others (volunteering/helping someone or something)
• Savour the moment (mindfulness)

I realise looking at this that I don’t often try something new. I don’t know how often people need to try a new thing to make this helpful for wellbeing. At what point does a new thing become an old thing? 

Did something happen to you? You don’t have to say what it is but I hope you are ok.

Psychologists have identified five ways to protect wellbeing. 

• Connect with others
• Be active
• Try something new 
• Give to others (volunteering/helping someone or something)
• Savour the moment (mindfulness)

I realise looking at this that I don’t often try something new. I don’t know how often people need to try a new thing to make this helpful for wellbeing. At what point does a new thing become an old thing? 

The past week has been really rough since the weather dip. I left my therapist, then cancelled my request to leave her luckilly she didnt get my message. My feeling is generally to go into defensive mode and curl into a ball but I can see not talking to people can be a problem. I just see too many issues in the world its like someone removed all the veils - now I am just thinking how can people just let it run like this. Creativity has been my saviour so many times. I just find it hard when things get revealed for what they are. It just becomes this kind of cold hard manual world, where everything is a thankless souless task. I wouldnt mind that so much if I saw there was light at the end of the tunnel. 

My main vulnerability at the moment seems to be that I am kind of on the breadline, accepting food parcels and going to the community fridge in the church. At the same time it feels like I am fighting a losing battle with people not interviewing, employing or paying me for my time.

When I got me autism diagnosis last year I wanted to help people, I am seeing how hard now that is because people dont want to see the extent to which society is offset. This is compounded by the fact I can only tell very few people I have it, its not a problem but it is the more I think about it.

Sorry to sound gloomy, I am an optimist :)