Starting with a few realistic goals and slowly building from there is the key. It takes time to feel better, but you have to make positive choices for yourself.
- 1Reach out to other people: It can be enormous help to simply talk to someone face to face about how you may feel.
- 2Get moving: If you exercise regularly the feeling you get is as effective as antidepressant medication. Start with small activities.
- 3Eat a mood-boosting diet: Stop eating foods that can affect your mood negatively, like sugar, alcohol, refined carbs and caffeine. You need to increase nutrients that enhances your mood like Omega-3.
- 4Connect with the world again: Adopt a pet and care for it, enjoy the beauty of nature, choose a hobby or even volunteer somewhere. Connecting with the world again will start to make you feel way better.