I slid back down and have to pull myself up again. So I have to tell myself the same peptalk:

I've gotten very distressed mentally before. Eventually, it always goes away. Eventually, I have always gotten back to feeling okay. In the depths of a bad episode it seems like it will be permanent, but it never has been.

I am trying to convince myself that I will get over this. It would be good to put the digital device down and start tending to paperwork I need to sort through and mail I need to open. As awful hard as it can be to start doing constructive things, that has been the opening to a path forward before. I can't find a little knob of hope to grab onto right now, but I tell myself to keep feeling around.