When I started the process of accepting I was ill, starting on my meds etc, I was led to believe (by no one but myself!) that even if I had one bad day, it meant that I wasn’t getting better and would make myself feel so guilty about it. What I’ve learnt along the way is that bad days are more than okay, its more about how you deal with them! When in the process of getting better, I thought that I had to be busy doing something all the time which made me feel even worse when I had days where I didn’t want to move from my bed or do anything. After going to my doctor and speaking about this, he reminded me that I’m allowed to have bad days, and just because you have bad days it does not mean that things aren’t improving! You need down time to yourself and you need days where you just lounge around watching netflix and eating shit all day, and you shouldn’t feel guilty for doing so. I spent too much time like this feeling guilty on days where I was doing nothing as I felt like I wasn’t doing enough to help myself get better, this couldn’t be more from the truth!!! Now what I’ve started to do is make note of my down days and how often they happen, and its crazy now to look back on how many bad days I’ve been having compared to how many I was having before. I still have bad days, days where I just want to lounge around doing nothing and its normal to feel like that! In life you’re bound to have bad and good days, there will be times where you suddenly have a bad day out of no where and it brings back all those horrible feelings again, but when this happens just try to look back at how far you’ve come! Think of how many bad days you’ve had recently compared to when things were at your worst (I know this is easier said than done, I still struggle with it sometimes), but once you accept that you’re allowed to have down days it does make it a lot easier in the process of getting better. DO NOT FEEL BAD FOR YOUR DOWN DAYS! I spent far too long doing this and feel like it was also preventing me from moving forward in getting better. Don’t be too hard on yourself or your body!!! I definitely learnt that the hard way.
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