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What Are Your Self Care Goals?

Astrid78

Spoonful of sugar will help the medicine go down
In an effort to care for my mental health ive devoted Saturdays to myself. I work like crazy and devote my weekends to my home and property. For the past two weeks ive spent Saturday lazing on the couch watching cable....eating more lol i do feel better
 

memyselfand1

University Student
To disengage from horrible community groups in local area I have been referred and stick to activities at home that I prefer to do instead that don't make my depression worse.
 

Anchorchain

Well-Known Member
Improve my posture. I tend to walk with bowed head, turned-in shoulders and stooped upper torso. Probably an expression of poor self image and sense of unworthiness. Seeing my reflection in shop windows as I walk in public, I'm appalled. When I stand up straight I think I look OK but it feels like I'm sticking my chest out in some kind of self important Mussolini caricature.
Keep up my regular but relatively low intensity cardio walking and stair climbing.
Start and keep up daily with some stretching and bending calisthenics....I'm aging, I don't want to be a hobbling-around stiff jointed old man.
Increase my regular but relatively low intensity resistance weight lifting.....I'm aging and I want to resist the loss of muscle mass.
My diet is OK......I'm comfortable with its healthiness and I actually enjoy eating it every day. My doctor enthusiastically approves of it too.

It'd be nice if my inner mental landscape, self confidence and mood department was as manageable as my physical health.
 
I no longer work at night, I’ve slept through the night and I have a day off. My kitchen is clean. I clear papers off my table, find something to watch for a few minutes, and review my notes on a topic I care about. I’m able to eat without wondering the severity of the headache the ingredients will cause me and the hours of a day reappear.

It’s my dream and I’m changing everything so I can have this.
 

Aves

Well-Known Member
I want to eat a more balanced diet, I’m taking lamotrigine which seems to make me crave carbs and sugar. I want to change my eating habits so that it will help with my mental health as I know there is a link between a healthy diet and brain health. I also want to move more as I find myself sitting a lot when I’m not looking after my young son. I think these things might work but it’s hard to find the motivation right now.
 
When people are suicidal and depressed it is sometimes very hard to even do basic things like showering, getting dressed every day, eating properly etc.

Self care is incredibly important - it can completely change your attitude and feelings about the day and even about yourself.

What are your self care goals?
  • wake up at 5:30am
  • Go to the gym and get 5k steps in a day
  • Eat 6 times a day
  • Read more
  • Do my nails and toes more
  • Watch more of the shows I like
 

MAC0

Y.N.W.A
SF Supporter
I only have 3 goals right now to get back

1 eat proper meals not had a full meal in 3 days
2 hoping that the constipation I have also will stop
3 get a full nights sleep or at least more than 2 hours wake up for 2 hours sleep for 2 and so on
 

Anchorchain

Well-Known Member
My diet's pretty healthy and I enjoy eating it every day, so that's easy to just keep on doing, especially since there aren't very many things I actually enjoy.
Exercise? OK, I've been slacking off on that. I'm gonna get back to building up my lower body strength with squats again. And upper body strength with pushups. Starting tonight. And I'll install a pullup bar in the doorway between my bedroom and the family room. On the achieved every day scoresheet, I walk 2 miles every day.....that's pretty easy and good for my head & attitude etc. With the onset of winter I guess it'll be back to the stationary bike in my basement......but if I dress warm enough i can go outside for the 2 mile, 1/2 hour walk if the temp isn't below 20* F.
 

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