Defeating Prolonged Restlessness and Boredom
In this article you will learn the following
-49 Healthy ways to deal with your restlessness — tips on Overcoming your Restlessness
-21 Signs you should take notice and seek immediate help [especially if they are happening for more than a week without any reasons like — trauma, tragedy, setbacks, Major failures and crisis etc.]
-12 triggers which can cause restlessness — this is an indicative list — there are many more things which can cause restlessness
All of us feel restless time to time — often this is temporary and you get back into your energetic, hopeful and action-oriented state — soon.
But if you are experiencing restlessness frequently along with frustrations, irritations, depression or agitation — you need to take urgent measures.
If this state of un-resourceful, demotivating and draining-emotions continues for long — you will find your quality of life deteriorating and going downhill very fast and becoming very negative, stressful and miserable.
In many cases it can spiral into a disorder needing urgent as well as long-term medical attention.
Prolonged restlessness can also make you go for poor and unhealthy and unsafe coping tools, techniques and lifestyle choices — which would magnify your sufferings manifolds.
21 Signs you should take notice and seek immediate help [especially if they are happening for more than a week without any reasons like — trauma, tragedy, setbacks, Major failures and crisis etc.]
1. When you are unable to focus, concentrate and think in structured way
2. When you are unable to be calm
3. When you find yourself overthinking and overanalyzing
4. When you find your imaginations making you catastrophize
5. When you are unable to do your regular chores properly
6. When you find it difficult sitting still while working or relaxing
7. When you are experiencing high palpitations
8. When you are anxious but cannot identify why
9. When you are unable to sleep
10. When your eating habits have changed drastically — either you are eating too much or ignoring eating
11. When your expectations are completely unrealistic and you are only relying on hopes and prayers
12. When You Feel out of control or find yourself losing self-control
13. When You feel ineffective and inadequate
14. When you are feeling alone, helpless and lonely
15. When you feel like crying but don’t know why
16. When You notice that Your restlessness starts after a new medication which has been changed recently
17. Your heart is racing or beating irregularly
18. You’re having trouble catching your breath
19. When You are confused or having difficulty seeing
20. When You are having auditory or visual hallucinations
21. When You have a new severe pain
22. When You are having thoughts of hurting yourself or others
12 triggers which can cause restlessness — this is an indicative list — there are many more things which can cause restlessness
1. Medical conditions like — ADHD, Depression, Bi-polar, Anxiety, Social-anxiety, Fear or Phobia about certain future events, Parkinson, Dementia/Alzheimer etc. Overactive thyroids, Alcohol/illicit-drug withdrawal etc.
2. Certain medicine’s side effect or interactions between different medications you are taking — including medications for depression etc.
3. Any important future events on which you are banking heavily — like an important interview, presentation
4. Few hormonal, medicinal, or neurologic triggers and issues
5. Your food habits — eating mostly junk food, high consumption of caffeine, artificial carbonated sweetened drinks, drugs and alcohol
6. Vitamin, mineral deficiency
7. Low blood sugar
8. Low blood pressure
9. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
10. Heart conditions with rapid heart rate such as atrial fibrillation
11. Metabolic problems
12. Sleep apnea and other sleep disorders
49 Healthy ways to deal with your restlessness — tips on Overcoming your Restlessness
1. Talk it out — Share your concern with your loved ones
2. Use healthy venting techniques including — crying, shouting at wall alone
3. Become aware of your feelings and emotions — without judging or forcing or suppressing them
4. Do something that relaxes you and what you enjoy doing
5. Sleep it off — at regular hours only — but if you are extremely fatigued just sleep it off
6. Identify what types of unhealthy coping technique you use — on impulse
7. Create healthy and uplifting ways to deal with sudden changes in life which triggers restlessness in you
8. Create positive distraction tricks that work for you
9. Avoid social media
10. Instead go, meet and spend time with people who make you feel good about yourself
11. Think, create and cook a new dish
12. Make self-care your priority
13. Take care of your loved-ones in most meaningful and fulfilling ways
14. Eat enough protein
15. Drink enough water every day
16. Practice good sleep hygiene
17. Schedule time to recharge, rejuvenate and revitalize yourself
18. Spend time on your hobbies
19. Make learning newer skills, newer language, a musical instrument and dancing your priorities
20. Maintain healthy social interactions
21. Create a varied background of friends and social, professional contacts
22. Meditation, breathing exercises, running, swimming, vigorous aerobic exercises
23. Practice yoga and mindfulness
24. Volunteer for a meaningful social cause
25. Identify activities that gives you joy
26. Develop the art making others laugh
27. Change the environment time to time and vary your routine
28. Seek appropriate therapy or counseling like CBT — cognitive behavior therapy,
29. Identify what unhealthy Lifestyle and habits you have and then create plans to Change it
30. Build psychological flexibility and resilience — by taking actions that are aligned with your values and not as per your mood
31. Learn to handle setbacks and bouncing back from failures and crisis
32. When feeling overwhelmed — take One step at a time
33. Lower your consumption of coffee, tea, soda, chocolate or energy drinks
34. Ask your doctor to change a medication to reduce restless
35. Establish an Ideal Schedule -Monitor Your Moods — note down the mood swings triggers situations, persons and time
36. Learn to manage your Anxiety and fears
37. Identify what coping mechanism you use currently — identify what healthy techniques you can use to replace ineffective methods
38. Learn to visualize peaceful, serene, and safe environment by Mentally taking you away from current state
39. Practice Progressive Muscle Relaxation
40. Spend Time in Nature
41. If your restless is due to boredom — learn how you can manage your boredom productively — rad my blog on this
42. Learn to manage your anger, sadness, grief, pain, hurt, shame and guilt — read my blogs on these
43. Learn to maintain emotional balance
44. Get out and play a physical team sports
45. Stay active even when you don’t feel like it
46. Shift your focus to what you actually can control and then take actions which are within your area of control
47. Notice positive around you — Practice generosity by appreciating and applauding others success and achievements
48. Create a task which creates mental stimulation within you
49. Know your big picture and goals — revisit, review and rewriteThis article was originally published as “49 Tips Overcoming Feeling of Restlessness and Boredom “ in https://successunlimited-mantra.com/index.php/blog [1st]for more than 3000+ blogs, articles and answers on creating metamorphosis in every aspect of your life — personal, professional, business, mental, emotional, social, relationships — please visit all three links http://relationshipandhappiness.com/ [2nd] and https://www.quora.com/profile/Subhashis-Banerji [3rd]
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