Mental health check-in for today, honest thoughts

the loud nights hit me too, usually when I'm lying there replaying the day. What's helped me is putting on a podcast low enough that I have to concentrate to follow it, which shoves the spiraling out of the way long enough to drift off

What does your check-in actually look like, like a written thing or just a few minutes of sitting with it? I never know whether I'm doing it right

The loud nights thing is real, mine tend to hit when I'm just sitting with nothing to do after dinner. Been messing with leaving my phone in the other room for an hour and it's oddly helped

honestly, i've been doing a short breathing thing before bed on the rough nights and it mostly takes the charge out of them. The slow-week spiral still shows up for me too, usually a few days in.

What time do you do the check-in? I keep meaning to and then it slides to midnight when I'm too fried to be honest with myself.

I do my check-in on the drive home from work, phone off, just naming the day out loud.

Only about 9 down here so the flat weeks hit early for me, but stealing the wins-list idea tonight. Walks got me through a stalled week last month, mostly because getting out of my own head beats staring at the fridge.