Wellbeing

How to get through a bad day!

Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist, has released a new book ‘Your Best Life at Any Age’. Here is some of his wisdom on how to get through a bad day:

They don’t happen often but they do happen. Days that are so awful we want them over as soon as possible. Everyone has them- lousy, rotten, dreadful days when absolutely nothing goes right. The dark clouds of negativity surround us. We feel flat or angry or agitated. Everything we try to do to improve our feelings backfires and it feels like life is ‘going to hell in a handbasket.’ These are days that are ended as quickly as possible. Everyone has had days when they have thought the best thing they could do is to go to bed and finish the day so that a new one can begin. But what if it is ten in the morning and it’s just too damn early to go back to bed? Let’s talk about some ways of getting through.

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