S - Sadness

S - Sadness

Not to panic- this is not about sadness as a whole. That's a massive topic, that would take more than a blog post to answer and quite simply it would be quite... sad... to address. It's about a more specific part of sadness, and that is how do I deal with sadness?

You see, I'm having a bit of a dilemma. Everybody has stuff that makes them happy. For me, this includes things such as colouring, hanging out with friends, visiting and cuddling animals, reading, snuggling up in my duvet and watching Netflix etc. These things are happy things, they make me happy when I do them.

However, I make connections VERY EASILY. Very. So, if I do something whilst I'm sad, then I will connect that thing with being sad. Are you seeing the issue?

Doing my happy things while I am sad, can make me associate them with being sad. So, although there is the possibility that doing these things could lift my mood when I'm sad, there's also the possibility that these things could become associated with feeling sad, so they wouldn't be happy anymore.

Do you see my dilemma? I'm getting a bit stuck.

That, was S.

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