Lifestyle Choices

Habits can provide comfort, security for children, an efficient way of coping with things that are repeatedly necessary, and/or a dulling restriction of spontaneity. If you are stuck in a routine and feel mildly depressed (down to light grey), you can improve things. Here are some possibilities:

• Food Spice it up, experiment, change your diet, change the times you eat, go out for a meal.
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• Drink If you do not drink much alcohol, have a few drinks. Go out for an evening with friends and drink a bit too much. If you drink a lot regularly, try cutting down or stopping, or changing the timing.
• Sleep Many people, especially when depressed, get obsessed with how much sleep they should have. There is no general rule about how much sleep is necessary. Lack of sleep is not harmful and your body will always take as much as it needs in the end. What is harmful is worrying about how much sleep you need. If you don’t sleep well, try going to bed later but still get up at the same time in the morning. Sleep deprivation has been used successfully as a treatment for depression: this involves being kept awake for 36 hours, perhaps once or twice a week. You can try doing this yourself by, for example, going out dancing all night or reading an exciting book that is hard to put down.
• Sex If you are not too depressed to feel any sensual feeling, try varying the routines you may have slipped into. If you fe_el able to do so, vary positions, change who usually initiates sexual contact, talk about sex, try touching in different ways.
• RoutinesAlter your schedules and routines. If the morning paper depresses you or has no effect on you, do not read it for a few days, or stop reading it altogether. Change the time of the dog’s walk. Go out to a film instead of watching television. Do the opposite of what you usually do — just as an experiment for a while. Try giving people different answers from your usual ones. See what happens. You may find that a great deal of what you do is habit and open to intelligent challenge.

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