When You Don't Want to Feel Better

Some days it’s not about feeling good, but resisting the urge to not feel good. You’re feeling down or you want to wallow in your feelings.

Consider:

Resist the allure of wallowing in your feelings. Find that fierce determination within you—that stubbornness—and use it.
It doesn’t matter how strongly you tell yourself you don’t care. The power to see things differently is yours any time you choose.
Deliberately choose. Remind yourself that you will absolutely not want to feel better–and this is normal. Then deliberately choose, because you can.
Take the first step by doing what you least feel like doing, the opposite of what you feel. Then take the next step. Through action, you won’t have to try; you will start to feel better naturally.

When You Don’t Want to Feel Better