Healthy Habits Exhibit#1
No longer listening to Spotify while doing tasks and chores. Only weekly listening sessions will be just granted.
I have been suffering from strong dissociative state of mind. Its quite common with patients of anxiety and depression .But it makes your life miserable. You are anywhere but not in the present moment.Any time you try to be in the present moment,You feel a suffocating pressure to run to safety. By daydreaming, by imagining scenarios,you just want to escape. Your whole day , week and life passes in a hazy way. Your memory constantly fails you and you fail to feel anything except numbness and irrational anxiety.
Grounding is the solution for this . It helps you turn off the sympathetic nervous system (the fight/flight system) and brings you and your senses in the present moment.
One of the grounding exercise is observing the tasks you are doing at the present moment using all the senses involved at that moment.
Say washing dishes . Usually with my headphones attached, I dissociate very easily . But it is a toxic habit . Turning off the headphones away , now I feel the cool water running on my hands, ( my mind try to drift to some problem like say my acne ) but the cool water and smell of the wash bar , the utensils shine , the way I scrub , everything brings me more to the present.
And Voila !! After doing this task , I will have a clear memory of washing this because my my nerves are able to properly register the senses received.
I have been suffering from strong dissociative state of mind. Its quite common with patients of anxiety and depression .But it makes your life miserable. You are anywhere but not in the present moment.Any time you try to be in the present moment,You feel a suffocating pressure to run to safety. By daydreaming, by imagining scenarios,you just want to escape. Your whole day , week and life passes in a hazy way. Your memory constantly fails you and you fail to feel anything except numbness and irrational anxiety.
Grounding is the solution for this . It helps you turn off the sympathetic nervous system (the fight/flight system) and brings you and your senses in the present moment.
One of the grounding exercise is observing the tasks you are doing at the present moment using all the senses involved at that moment.
Say washing dishes . Usually with my headphones attached, I dissociate very easily . But it is a toxic habit . Turning off the headphones away , now I feel the cool water running on my hands, ( my mind try to drift to some problem like say my acne ) but the cool water and smell of the wash bar , the utensils shine , the way I scrub , everything brings me more to the present.
And Voila !! After doing this task , I will have a clear memory of washing this because my my nerves are able to properly register the senses received.
22-25, F
