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Someone who knows of my depression suggested this exercise several months ago. It's basically listing 5 things you're grateful for each day/night. She got the idea from a community on LJ called ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
5gratitudes. I looked up "gratitude" as an interest on LJ and several communities came up, including the aforementioned one, and 5_gratitudes which isn't as membered, daily_gratitude which is good if you're hard-press to think of/look for 5 things a day and thinkpositive30 which is where you think of one positive thing a day for 30 days (and of course you're welcome to do it longer). According to this last community's info page, "it takes 21 days to change a habit." Agree or not, I suppose this is something that I should think about, especially with these past hard days/weeks where my emotions have become severely depressed and thoughts have been of self-harm, though I haven't gone back to that stage after September. *knocks on wood*
I guess I'll try to think of 5 things today, without my usual qualifying comments.
1. I saw "Twilight" tonight with people. (See below for my review.) Not a favorite/great movie, but it was good to lose myself in fluff and the occasional snarky remarks.
2. The Christmas gift for my brother-in-law arrived in the mail today.
3. The library had more books and CD's on hold for me that I requested.
4. I wrote and finished a poem after the one I started several weeks ago stalled and died on me.
5. Some confusion was cleared up directly with someone on AIM about a tense moment Wednesday night.
5gratitudes. I looked up "gratitude" as an interest on LJ and several communities came up, including the aforementioned one, and 5_gratitudes which isn't as membered, daily_gratitude which is good if you're hard-press to think of/look for 5 things a day and thinkpositive30 which is where you think of one positive thing a day for 30 days (and of course you're welcome to do it longer). According to this last community's info page, "it takes 21 days to change a habit." Agree or not, I suppose this is something that I should think about, especially with these past hard days/weeks where my emotions have become severely depressed and thoughts have been of self-harm, though I haven't gone back to that stage after September. *knocks on wood* I guess I'll try to think of 5 things today, without my usual qualifying comments.
1. I saw "Twilight" tonight with people. (See below for my review.) Not a favorite/great movie, but it was good to lose myself in fluff and the occasional snarky remarks.
2. The Christmas gift for my brother-in-law arrived in the mail today.
3. The library had more books and CD's on hold for me that I requested.
4. I wrote and finished a poem after the one I started several weeks ago stalled and died on me.
5. Some confusion was cleared up directly with someone on AIM about a tense moment Wednesday night.
