In between feeling sorry for myself and life I do silly excercises like making lists. Two in particular, one marked losses and one marked gains, or more to the point one marked "What I mourn for" and one marked "what makes me joyful" My aim when I am feeling positive is to have more items in the secod list then in the first. The interesting thing is that the first list almost always stays the same, but depending on mood the second one has very little or is quite full, (at the moment it has no more then more then six items in it). Any one else do exercises like that?
I make three kinds of lists the first are my day to day prompts because I have a problem around short term memory the next is lists of things I want to change I try to work through these but don't usually get far the last is a list that I add and add too and is what I want for the future I goals seem a long way off but they are my dream