I have definitely had mindstates of constantly looping about how people are senseless, illogical, shallow and small, also combined with extreme apathy, effort to move around, and severe expectation of more-disappointment or repetitiveness as to why you don’t go seek interaction.
This is something I’ve written about a little bit elsewhere about some of my worst moods but I did find the purpose of a ‘gratitude journal’ except I wouldn’t call it that, but simply one of my most crucial discoveries when I was in these moods was how often I’d forget good things and events in the world and in the past, and suddenly this gave the reason to document them and then mark their existence in places you can’t miss (walls, bookmarks tab, spreadsheet, desktop background).
There’s also scrolling through art you may like, it’s probably harder to find “music you like” to keep getting a new sense of novelty to make the world feel ‘worth it’ again.
Also going to sleep generally helps happiness a bit here, but I have personally felt knowing logically that there are many mindstates that increase your mood and don’t do it through ‘logical arguments’ like dreams or nootropics or bodily stimulation, it doesn’t actually help, the knowledge that you were able to be in that state before and now you’re not. (the same way imagining eating food or going on a vacation is not a substitute for it, etc.)
I have definitely had mindstates of constantly looping about how people are senseless, illogical, shallow and small, also combined with extreme apathy, effort to move around, and severe expectation of more-disappointment or repetitiveness as to why you don’t go seek interaction.
This is something I’ve written about a little bit elsewhere about some of my worst moods but I did find the purpose of a ‘gratitude journal’ except I wouldn’t call it that, but simply one of my most crucial discoveries when I was in these moods was how often I’d forget good things and events in the world and in the past, and suddenly this gave the reason to document them and then mark their existence in places you can’t miss (walls, bookmarks tab, spreadsheet, desktop background).
There’s also scrolling through art you may like, it’s probably harder to find “music you like” to keep getting a new sense of novelty to make the world feel ‘worth it’ again.
Also going to sleep generally helps happiness a bit here, but I have personally felt knowing logically that there are many mindstates that increase your mood and don’t do it through ‘logical arguments’ like dreams or nootropics or bodily stimulation, it doesn’t actually help, the knowledge that you were able to be in that state before and now you’re not. (the same way imagining eating food or going on a vacation is not a substitute for it, etc.)