Tips on How to Deal With a Bad Day
From Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book which is all about mental health
He was having a bad day.
Got in my taxi, this was before Uber, and asked me to take him to the liquor store.
Bought a bottle of vodka and wanted me to drive to a park where he waved $20 bills at people walking around a jogging path.
They ignored him.
Addiction can camouflage mental health issues and a few bad choices dealing with a problem or a relationship can lead us down the slippery slope of an addiction or relapse — I’ll share my story about that on another day.
For now, here’s some “Tips for how to make a bad day better” from Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book (he’s the author of The Midnight Library) with some of my own thoughts in parentheses:
Get up. Get washed. Get dressed. (move your body is good any time of the day).
Go for a walk. Stretch. Place your legs against the wall (the last one feels really amazing).
Head, if you can, somewhere green (especially if you’ve been looking a while at a screen. I forget this one all the time).
Get some sunlight.
