I'm Feeling Rotten! What Can I Do About It?!?There have been times when I couldn't kill a bad mood because I was feeling rotten. I'd try everything I knew... And I could maybe soften it, but I still wasn't feeling wonderful. I used to beat myself up about it... And it made me feel worse...so I stopped doing that. What has worked the best for me is to remember that everything I say or think is usually just the bad mood talking, so I ignore it. It's unimportant. Because when I was in a bad mood and was feeling horrible, almost everything annoyed me. And almost everything was a problem. When I'm in a great mood, almost nothing is a problem and everything is wonderful and interesting... I would even tell people like my husband to never mind me because I was in a bad mood. If I'm not going to take my bad mood seriously, then I certainly don't want anyone else to... In fact, sometimes, when I look at myself being in a bad mood...it makes me laugh at how silly I am sometimes... Which usually makes me feel a little better already... Not fighting it... Like slapping yourself would really change anything anyway... ;) Not making it wrong... BAD bad feeling....you're a BAD bad feeling ;) And not listening to it... It always makes me think of what kids do when they want to ignore something... You know...the "Lalalalala...I'm not listening to you" sort of thing... Whatever it was...it'll go away... Sometimes I like to look at it as if it were a box. And I'm putting the box in another room... A really dark room...somewhere really far away... And then I'm going to go about whatever there is to do now... I've been known to completely forget about it even... And while we're on the subject of I'm Feeling Rotten! What Can I Do About it?!?... Or just read what everyone else has said... Or you can introduce yourself to the Thought Detective community! Looking forward to hearing from you... Suzanne Go from "I'm Feeling Rotten! What Can I Do About It?!?" to "Feeling Good" Go to the Thought Detective home page
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