While the absence of credit alerts can dampen joy, there are alternative ways to uplift your spirits. Constantly tracking the global news cycle can contribute to feelings of depression.
Additionally, the anticipation of uncertain outcomes may lead to anxiety.
In such moments, it becomes essential to discover effective ways to instantly boost your mood and alleviate stress.
Eat food
Feeling down? It might be hunger rather than sadness.
Consider the last time you enjoyed a delicious meal. Take a moment to envision a satisfying dish that would bring you joy, and treat yourself by going to get it.
Take a walk
Repeated studies have demonstrated that walking can effectively enhance your mood and alleviate depression. When you find yourself feeling depressed at home, step outside for a walk.
Similarly, if the pressures of work become overwhelming, consider taking a stroll to clear your mind.
Visit or talk to a friend
More than just a friend, someone who exudes positive energy and shares jokes that leave you in stitches.
If it’s feasible, visit their house; if not, connect with them through video or a phone call. Witness how their presence can remarkably uplift your mood.
Watch a movie or series
Have you ever spent all day and night watching a movie or series, and you were so engrossed that you forgot about what’s happening to you? Movies make you temporarily suspend your thoughts and focus on what is happening on the screen in front of you, and sometimes that’s all you need.
Put off your phone and data
Sometimes, you’re unhappy because you are perpetually online. It’s unhealthy to constantly watch and read what other people are doing, saying, and commenting on.
Unplug yourself from the noise, pick up a book and read, or even sleep or take a walk.
It’s incredibly challenging to avoid all the dangers associated with sharing a bed with a close friend.
Friendships between ex-opposites are typically great until sex enters the picture due to growing sexual interest.
“Oh, we are mature” and “it’s just sex, we can always handle ourselves,” are the well-used responses you get from people who have been going down with their friends.
The truth is that no matter how cool or mature you may feel, you can never completely avoid the risks associated with sleeping with a buddy.
Here are several uncomfortable situations and issues to think about before you do it with that close buddy.
1. When they get someone else.
So you sleep with them and a new partner comes into the picture shortly after. That awkward moment when she introduces you to the new guy as her close friend but you both know you are not just a good friend.
And then there’s the problem of that partner finding out later that he/she isn’t just your friend.
So you’re faced with confessing and losing one of your friend or partner, or facing that awkward moment when your partner confronts you with the truth that he/she found out from someone else.
Oh dear.
2. Recurrence.
The understated struggle that comes out of this kind of situation is how to minimise the ‘damage’ that has been done.
Quite a number of first-time friends sex happen in moments of rashness or uncontrolled excitement and friends would ideally love to keep it at that single time, but to continue being friends and keep the sex from recurring is one helluva difficult task you’d better avoid.
3. Opinions and judgments become questioned.
It becomes strange to go to this person, who you slept with, to talk about your heartbreaks and dating life.
It used to be normal and OK to seek their opinions before the sex happened, but not anymore. Their opinion somehow appears coloured by personal interests in you.
4. Pure intentions?
You also call their actions to question. Whatever he or she does might get interpreted as a calculated move to get back in bed with you – especially if the first time was really bomb.
5. Things won’t be the same again.
Seven out of 10 times, you won’t be able to get your friendship back to what it was before.
Once you go down that thin road, that relationship dynamic changes. Usually from good to bad.
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A friend has revealed that a man who committed suicide shortly after discovering his fiancée dead was plagued by “disgusting” false accusations that he was to blame.
In January of last year, Craig Daffern, a 35-year-old gardener from Blackpool, found Jenny Shanley, 36, in the lavatory at their residence in the Lancashire village of Westby.
After texting a buddy, “I’ve had enough but I love you all,” his death was discovered three days later in a small village, close to a telephone exchange facility.
A coroner found last week that Jenny, who had three children by a previous partner, had taken her own life ‘impulsively’ after becoming ‘significantly intoxicated’ on cocaine and alcohol.
One of Craig’s best friends has since revealed the grieving boyfriend’s mental health spiralled aftrer he was repeatedly ‘blamed for what happened to her’.
The friend, wishing to remain anonymous, told LancsLive: ‘After Jenny’s death Craig talked to his friends about what people were saying on social media and it absolutely broke him.
‘He was pushed to suicide by those comments and I can’t even begin to imagine how he felt when he took his own life.’
Craig and Jenny were said to be ‘very happy’ and he was planning to propose
The last text he received from Craig said: ‘I can’t do this anymore.’
The friend added: ‘I just hope that those people who made those comments, and they know who they are, realise the consequences of their actions.
‘All of Craig’s family have been dignified in not responding but someone had to speak out so that people know why Craig did what he did.’
Jenny’s mum told the inquest her daughter had overdosed on sleeping pills when her marriage broke down four years earlier but had ‘more recently been in a happy place’.
She said their relationship had been ‘volatile’ and that Craig had texted her the night before Jenny’s death saying she needed to ‘knock the drinking and sniffing on the head’.
One of Jenny’s friends police that the couple were ‘very happy’ together and she had never seen any evidence of violence between them.
Craig’s friends have since said he planned to propose to her during an upcoming trip to Land’s end.
Returning a narrative conclusion the coroner said: ‘The family appear to think that because Craig chose to end his life a few days later that means he was involved. There has been some suggestion they had a volatile relationship but there has been no criminal prosecutions and I am also conscious of the fact Craig isn’t able to answer those assertions.
‘At the time she died Jennifer was significantly intoxicated and had taken cocaine and that may have affected her judgement. She had talked about how stressful her life was and there may have been some money worries. Craig wasn’t happy about her cocaine use, particularly on that night.
‘I think that by the time she died she was affected by the cocaine and alcohol and made an impulsive decision she might not have made otherwise. I am of the view that Jennifer would not have died had it not been for the cocaine use.’
After the inquest, Craig’s sister Heather said: ‘We are all still heartbroken beyond belief but in time we will come to terms with this utter tragedy of losing such a happy couple who loved each other so much.
‘Craig loved Jennifer and simply couldn’t live without her and we hope everyone can now move forward.’
