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Boredom and Sadness
The basics of mental health are how one handles boredom. There is no excitement in life on a day-to-day basis and one needs to go through usual routines.
Nothing much happens and you don’t see a reason to be happy about it. You spend a lot of time with yourself, so, you start withdrawing socially. You don’t know why you are living and why should you get up. So, you start sleeping till late. This further reduces your metabolic rate, and you become low energy. So you feel tired.
Even when you meet people, there is not much of that you offer as you are already bored. You become low energy, so others also avoid you. You start seeing everything as negative. Finally, you become sad. You encounter mood swings. So, you try hard to be happy. This makes you sad.
Diagnosis
From the above, we see that the core reasons and symptoms of boredom are:—
- Laziness
- Sleeping till late or not getting sleep till late night.
- Not having any routine in life.
- Slow metabolic rate.
- Social withdrawal.
- Lonliness.
- No purpose.
- No achievements.
- Fatigue and exhaustion
- Craving for sugar and fast food.
- Mindlessly and endlessly browsing social media or playing video games.
- Putting on weight.
- Hairfall
- Dark circles in the eyes.
- Pain in the calf muscles and lower half of the body.
- Breathlessness after walking even a small distance.
- Losing interest in day to day activities, and therefore missing bath.
- Extreme levels of mood swing, that fluctuates between anger, anxiety, negative thoughts.
- Increased acidity and indigestion.
- High heart rate.
- Increased blood sugar levels,
- Itching in the skin.
- Increased allergy.
- Loss of libido.
- Bad breath.
- Acne in the skin.
- Constipation.
- Avoiding people.
Solution
You need to solve each of the problems to get rid of your sadness.
- Get up before 6 AM and go to bed before 10.30 PM. This will significantly adjust the biological clock in your body. Go out for a walk. Leaving the house is super important.
- Select a set of tasks and their timings. Perform these tasks everyday, exactly at the same time. Completion of even the smallest of tasks helps your brain to remain busy. Doing these in the same time daily gives you a reason to wakeup.
- Pickup anything you loved in the childhood and do that daily. It may be singing, painting, writing poems, anything. This will bring back child in you. Children don’t get bored.
- Cooking:— In my career of counselling and therapeutics, nothing has helped people with boredom more than cooking. When you cook, your thyroid gets balanced. At the end you feel like achieving something.
- Exercise and body toning:— Start exercising, work on diet, and start taking good care of the body. Tone the muscles. Take you daily selfie, and observe the changes. This helps you to love yourself more and you don’t get bored.
- Reading:— Habit of reading helps you to spend more time with yourself. Net surfing doesn’t help. You have to focus, and books do that for you. If you are not already, you must start.
- Discipline:- Fix the timing for all the daily activities, time of wake up, breakfast, bath, lunch, diner, sleep.
- Detach Negative Thoughts:- Whenever negative thoughts cross your mind, just push yourself out of house and go for a walk. Muscle movements activate brain cells and negative thoughts are cut off.
- Talk to Strangers:- Going out and forcing yourself to talk to strangers has a significant social impact. This elevates your Oxytocin, and helps reducing anxiety, lowering boredom.
- Spend time in the sun. Our body gets not only Vitamin D, but sunlight activates Cellular Melatonin production, which is an essential hormone driving anti-oxident network in us, helping faster healing of the inflammation.
Conclusion
“The cure for boredom is curiosity.”
Dorothy Parker
Only a curious mind pushes you to create something beautiful and meaningful all the time. However, boredom coupled with laziness constricts you to a couch and makes the mind lazy. This becomes a vicious never ending cycle, that anyone who gets into find hard to come out.
The coping mechanism described here is carefully constructed cognitive behavioural therapy, aimed at slowly taking you out of a constricted comfort zone and increasing blood circulation in your brain and body. Initially the steps may seem meaningless as you have lost interest in life.
Over a Period of 2-3 weeks though, if you can push yourself against your mind’s desire of not to, the new set of behaviour will be embedded in your system and you will be able to come out of your boredom.
Due to increased circulation, and enforced discipline, your brain will allocate resources for the new lifestyle. Shortly enough, due to more firing of neurons, the brain will start feeling better, and it will prevent you from getting back to couch.
You will be rejuvinated with new energy, and great things will start happening.
The above process(all the ten things) when followed for a month, makes a drastic change in your mind and body. You become more energetic, more disciplined, more considerate to yourself, having a reason to live and wake up.
Now you can start thinking of doing something of your own and that would give a direction to your life.
