You can still plan small things to look forward to, said Bethany Teachman, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. Plan “anything that is going to give you sparks of joy” as frequently as you can during the coming months, she said. “The message is, ‘Try to do the good things, but definitely don’t do the bad things,” Daniels said. Problems arise if you use these things repeatedly to change your mood — and you feel guilty about that afterward, she said. Teachman has tried sky diving and bungee jumping in an effort to push herself, but you don’t have to go that far.

Source: bd News24 December 27, 2020 06:33 UTC