Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.

How I Shake Off a Bad Mood

I’m not often what my Nanna would have called huffy. I generally don’t get angry and try not to be a moper. However, there are times when I am all those things; there are times when my mind gets away from me and catastrophises everything, leaving me feeling pretty miserable.

When I feel like this, here are a few things I try.

Firstly, I try incessantly talking until I feel my point has been received and understood in twelve languages, including Martian. Depending on the cause of my irritation, this sometimes works. I wholeheartedly believe that talking is the best way to work through issues. However, sometimes it just won’t do.

If the above doesn’t work, then I move on to distraction. Weirdly, I sometimes find that a good true crime podcast or documentary can help lift my mood. There’s this series I fell in love with a few years ago called Homicide for the Holidays, and though the crimes it documents are horrific, something is soothing about how the program is set up. Every now and then, there’s a lull, and everything goes quiet while you get a shot of some lovely snowy scenery. Then, of course, there’s the perspective a show like that can give you: at least that’s not my life – at least I’m alive.

The other thing that helps me to shake off a bad mood is music. If I’m feeling particularly irritable or moody, jamming my earbuds in and turning my volume up high helps to jiggle things around in my brain. Usually, it’s enough to lift my mood. I recently discovered that music therapy is actually a thing, and it has been shown to effectively lower cortisol levels.

Well, that’s post 39! Time is whizzing by. Does anyone else feel like someone has accidentally pushed the fast-forward button on the cosmic remote control? No…? Just me then…

Anyway, as ever, thanks for stopping by. It means the world!

Until next time,

George

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