Getting Out of my Summer Slump

For the past three weeks, I've had the mentality of "I have nothing to do thus there is no point getting out of bed" and living that way started to affect my mental and physical health. Doing nothing made me feel down all the time. I haven't been eating anything of substance, I've been spending half of my day sleeping, I don't get dressed, I spend 23 hours in my bed, and I was only eating dinner because I slept through all the other meals.

Today was the first day that I tried to change all of that. I woke up at 2 pm, which wasn't great, but instead of lying there all day I got out of bed. I made myself a BLT (minus tomato) and a watermelon/kiwi/blackberry smoothie. I got dressed and even put on makeup. I ended up filming a video which I'm still not sure if I like. My mom then got me to go to this market type strip mall sort of thing and we looked in shops, got a snack, and bought some healthy groceries. When home I had a vegetarian pot pie and waffle fries for dinner both of which were amazing. I edited the video then I will admit I lazed around for the rest of the day but I'm proud that I actually acted like a human today. I ate properly, got dressed, and even left the house. I count that as a win.

To anyone out there who is caught in a summer slump I honestly recommend getting up and doing something with your day because you will feel a lot better about yourself and you will feel like the day wasn't completely wasted. It's hard when you get so used to being in bed but just do it. I did it and I survived.