TEENAGERS WITH EXPERIENCE

  • Home
  • Mental Health
    • Anxiety and Stress Articles
    • Body Image Articles
    • Depression Articles
    • Disorder Articles
    • Eating Disorder Articles
    • Help/Helping Articles
    • Mental Health and Others Articles
    • OCD Articles
    • Self-Harm Articles
    • Sleep Problem Articles
    • Social Anxiety Articles
  • LGBTQ+
    • Coming Out Articles
    • Gender Articles
    • Questioning Articles
    • Pride Articles
    • Sexuality Articles
  • Lifestyle
    • Addiction Articles
    • Beauty Articles
    • Growing Up Articles
    • Hobby Articles
    • Healthy Living Articles
    • Modern World Articles
    • Period Articles
    • Sex Articles
  • Education
    • College Articles
    • Life Skills Articles
    • Revision Articles
    • School Articles
    • University Articles
    • Volunteer Articles
    • Working Articles
  • Social Life
    • Abuse Articles
    • Bullying Articles
    • Emotion Articles
    • Family Articles
    • Friendship Articles
    • Death Articles
    • Pet Articles
    • Relationship Articles
  • Topical
    • BLM Articles
    • COVID-19 Articles
    • Cultural Articles
    • Disabilities and SEN/D Articles
    • Feminism Articles
    • Finance Articles
    • Political Articles
    • Holiday Articles >
      • Christmas
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • New Years Articles
      • Valentine's Day
    • Religion Articles
  • Creative Writing
    • Poems
    • Reviews
    • Short Stories
    • Writing Prompts
  • Team
    • Join The Team
    • Our Team
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Videos
  • For Schools
  • Home
  • Mental Health
    • Anxiety and Stress Articles
    • Body Image Articles
    • Depression Articles
    • Disorder Articles
    • Eating Disorder Articles
    • Help/Helping Articles
    • Mental Health and Others Articles
    • OCD Articles
    • Self-Harm Articles
    • Sleep Problem Articles
    • Social Anxiety Articles
  • LGBTQ+
    • Coming Out Articles
    • Gender Articles
    • Questioning Articles
    • Pride Articles
    • Sexuality Articles
  • Lifestyle
    • Addiction Articles
    • Beauty Articles
    • Growing Up Articles
    • Hobby Articles
    • Healthy Living Articles
    • Modern World Articles
    • Period Articles
    • Sex Articles
  • Education
    • College Articles
    • Life Skills Articles
    • Revision Articles
    • School Articles
    • University Articles
    • Volunteer Articles
    • Working Articles
  • Social Life
    • Abuse Articles
    • Bullying Articles
    • Emotion Articles
    • Family Articles
    • Friendship Articles
    • Death Articles
    • Pet Articles
    • Relationship Articles
  • Topical
    • BLM Articles
    • COVID-19 Articles
    • Cultural Articles
    • Disabilities and SEN/D Articles
    • Feminism Articles
    • Finance Articles
    • Political Articles
    • Holiday Articles >
      • Christmas
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • New Years Articles
      • Valentine's Day
    • Religion Articles
  • Creative Writing
    • Poems
    • Reviews
    • Short Stories
    • Writing Prompts
  • Team
    • Join The Team
    • Our Team
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Videos
  • For Schools

How to keep busy after hard times

28/5/2019

0 Comments

 
When something goes wrong in your life, the easiest thing to do is probably to let your world stop turning. Big events that change your perspective or have a big impact on your day to day life can easily make you feel like your normal routine is impossible, and that all you should do is sit and stew in your negative emotions. This article is aimed towards tackling this mindset and has ideas of how you can keep your mind off things that you can’t do anything about. Doing nothing is probably the worst way to spend your time in this moment and taking steps back towards your normal routine is incredibly important!
​

Unfortunately, my sister suffered a series of VF cardiac arrests, narrowly escaping death. She was confined to her hospital bed for just over a month and even now she’s back home, she requires constant care. Out of fear and worry, my parents and I have dealt with many sleepless nights. The first few days she was kept in a medically induced coma and we had no idea whether she would pull through and what state she would be in if she did. Brain damage was a high probability but luckily her mind remained intact! That didn’t stop my entire family from worrying ourselves into illness!
The American Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/grief.aspx) has five key tips to help anyone get through similar tough situations!


1) Talk about it! – This one is the most prominent piece of advice available to deal with any bad situation but that is because it is proven to be the most effective.


2) Accept what has happened and don’t try to stop any emotions – Don’t bottle up your thoughts or feelings, let them flow. They might be painful but you don’t have any way out of them. Having a good cry is a healthy way to deal with powerful feelings.


3) Take care of yourself and your family - Eating well, exercising and getting plenty of rest help us get through each day and move forward.


4) Help others to deal with the situation – Keeping yourself social may seem impossible, but kindness rewards us with an extremely helpful dose of endorphins (the chemicals that tell your brain you’re happy) which are most necessary at times like these!


5) Remember and celebrate the good times – Focusing on happy memories can help you to realise that things were ok once before and they can be again. Positive thinking directs you towards future happiness.


My advice focuses on numbers 3 and 4. I believe that keeping yourself busy when things are at their most raw and painful is probably the most effective way to continue through to happier times. Time heals the best, but continuous activity and interactions is a more immediate way to ease a pain that may seem incredibly overwhelming. For instance, I liked to make sure that our fridge was full of food whilst my sister was in hospital as my parents had no time to shop and I spent the time she was unconscious putting together a scrapbook with photos, messages and other mementos from all her friends and loved ones to keep my mind away from thoughts of ‘what if’. Going to the gym also kept my mind off worst-case scenarios! In conclusion, though times may be tough, all you can do is keep going because it helps no one for you to stop functioning! Keep strong everyone and try to make the best of your day!

​Sarah

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Guest Writers

    The articles here are written by guest writers or previous TWE members.

    Categories

    All
    Education
    LGBT+
    Lifestyle
    Mental Health
    Social Life
    Topical

Picture
Home
Join The Team

About Us
Contact Us

Teenagers With Experience is an organisation created to provide teenagers worldwide with an online platform to share their own experiences to be able to help, inform and educate others on  a variety of different topics. We aim to provide a safe space to all young people. You can contact us via email, social media or our contact form found on our home page.