When I'm like that, I just go with it. Clean the house, whatever, listen to music. Enjoy it. I also get depressions coming over me, and sudden anxieties out of nowhere, but I don't post about them because my whole strategy consists of AVOIDING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. I am going through a marital separation, and this should be a massive trigger for me. And it is. I get depressed, cry in the work truck sometimes driving down the road... but I cope. I FOCUS INTENSELT ON PLEASURE AND FUN. Right now I am cleaning the house and blasting music and feeling awesome.
I have heard some people here call it, COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY.... I don't know what that even is, but if that is what I am doing....IT WORKS... IT WORKS AMAZING!
I swear I can literally pull my mind out of depression and anxiety, and into a happy or at least calm and stable mood. I can even push myself into pleasant hypomania this way. If I need to get a lot done, or I am in general motivated to have energy and be UP, I can literally TRIGGER MYSELF TO BE HYPOMANIC! I did it today. I was depressed for the last couple weeks since my wife left. Today, I DECIDED I AM GOING TO BE HAPPY AND ENERGETIC, PERIOD. I started cleaning the house, paying bills, planning my goals for the future, playing music, talking to friends on the phone and going into an energetic, joyous mania... I am not saying you are like me exactly, but I am sharing because this METHOD i am using has changed my frickin life.