‘Up’ and ‘down’ days.

In this post, I’m going to talk about how, some days, I can’t explain how I feel and I have very ‘up’ and ‘down’ moments. I am also going to briefly explain what others can do to help me and I hope some people may be able to use these strategies.

Often, I can feel quite horrible when I wake up and then throughout the day, my emotions can vary lot. This can make things very difficult to experience. It is hard to explain to others as I don’t have the words to say I’m feeling and sometimes don’t understand myself. This makes me react to situations differently than when I am feeling more calm. At the end of these kind of days, I am really exhausted but I often struggle to sleep as I am scared about what may happen the next day.

These days happen very often at the moment. I feel upset and annoyed one minute and then okay and happy (ish) the next. This means that I can often get cross and frustrated with my mum or my brother, even though I have been talking to them happily a few seconds earlier. It usually would have been a small thing that they may have said, done, hinted at or it may even be nothing at all. It could be something in the room or outside which is too noisy or too bright. Basically my senses can get overloaded and cause me stress. This happens more when I wake up feeling horrible as I am already anxious.

When I have these days, I struggle to do school work and I often can’t do things which I love, they are often just too tiring. This is one of the reasons that I havent written a blog post in a while, I have been having these feelings very frequently and the last couple of days have been tough.

It can be hard to feel this way and I often have to forgive myself for what I may have done or felt. When I feel like this, people can help by being patient and forgiving and let me take my time with things, especially if I am feeling overwhelmed or have woken up stressed. This can help me as I can take a minute to breathe and get calmer before I go back to the thing which may have been stressing me out or before I start to do something else which may be stressful.

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Thanks for reading,

Edie x