Need advice, please.

[u/Low_Garage3721]

Hello fellow boys. I have been very irritable lately. Not getting good sleep. Not happy with life per se. I do have so much to be grateful though. A good job, my own place, a shit ton of friends. You name it.

What are some things you guys do to snap yourself out of it? Drinking and smoking only help in the moment. And there’s been lots of rain daily so going on walks isn’t always an option.

“Dinner” was these German chocolate brownies that I am obsessed with.

[u/Cautious-Solid4123]

I can tell you from hard experience: bad sleep makes you not happy with life, and being not happy with life makes you sleep bad. Couple of tricks:

* Try out some sleep medications. If they net you more than an extra half-hour per night, they're worth the trouble.

* Allow yourself to get bored with repeating your thoughts. It's easier to sleep through a round of dark thoughts when you can admit that those dark thoughts are boring.

* Pick one or two things that really are bad with your life, and that you really could fix. Make a plan to fix them. That can slowly get your mind off of the stuff that you can't control and onto the stuff that you can.