Discussion Are there any unusual ways you improve your mental health? Or track it? Ease your symptoms?

[Set Real Goul]

Title. I'll start with something silly.
I have borderline personality disorder. And I don't always notice when I'm having a terrible mood or overly intense emotional reactions. I use Tekken 8 and other competitive games to track it.
Literally yesterday, I was raging really hard at the game, even though I was destroying my opponent and reading them completely. I won matches using only grabs. But I was still unbelievably angry:
WHY DOES HE KEEP DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, I'M LANDING 6 GRABS IN A ROW!?! WHY DOESN'T HE RESPECT ME BECAUSE OF THESE MOVES? MR. ANDERSON, WHY DO YOU KEEP GOING...
Sometimes I get a little crazy. Thankfully, I never take it out on people IRL.

When I have too much coffee or tea, I boil some water, but I just pour myself a cup of plain water and drink it warm. At least that way I don't keep drinking caffeine late at night.

When I was studying the philosophy of Hume, Wittgenstein, and Socrates, I started thinking about how language works and about certain unusual words in it.
One thing I've been thinking about is that some words don't really have much meaning, yet they can seriously harm my mental state.
I try to remove them from my vocabulary and ignore them when other people use them. They often reveal more about the person using them than they do about reality. And they're not actually universal concepts — they're often something very specific to a particular person. These words are extremely broad, and when you really think about them, they often don't mean much at all.
Words like: everyone, men, women, all M/F, the world, the whole world, justice, the best, the worst, pathetic, equality.

A small thought that helps me slightly change my perspective on the world: there are several billion people in the world, but I form — or rather maintain — my worldview with the help of only a few dozen people.

So what do you think? Do you use anything like this? >_<

 

[iguazo falls]

man those words get me too. i guess for me they trigger comparison and rumination over generalization and perception, and i get paranoid its totally about me and totally 100% true... and its some guy complaining online about some other guy doing some random thing i don't do. to be honest that is why i don't go on the internet often anymore and ignore alot of things cause we have so much access to everybody's thoughts or bot stuff.

i think for me i have unintentionally been getting into acceptance. like recently i just accepted how the world works in some ways and that the space for honesty and sincerity in them is mostly non existent. and some other things. and its like ok. well this thing is happening. its not really my fault. i feel like trash about it and thats ok and kinda reasonable. i guess i can do this non ideal or sketchy thing instead. and that will reach my goal more accurately with less rebound. maybe i can even accept some other things. idk i think also letting go and detaching cause u can solve something easier and perform if u don't actually fall for it being intrinsic to ur self worth or who u are. like ok i am doing this thing to trick people to get a job or whatever, i don't have to truly care what they think, all it matters is that it works (and if not, why), and i go home and i get to be myself.

another thing is realising everything is algebra. you can reorganise the equation and deconstruct it.

to track i don't know, i keep a diary but it's hard to collate the data in a graph that i'd need. cause i think something useful is noting the background events in correlation to the emotion. but when i'm super pissed off i don't really care to muck around on excel and the data is very vast. and i don't trust apps. actually now you have inspired a way for me to maybe track this data in a more compact way on excel moving forward and look at things more objectively. cause my thoughts and words aren't really me they are just loud.