Welcome everyone to the 42nd haiku in the Haiku Hope series. This is part of my creative distractions within the COPE campaign, and a list of personal distraction ideas can be found on the stress hacks page of this website, along with sensory distractions and kid-friendly stress hacks too.
We’re now up to 42 haikus, and I’ve challenged myself to get to 50 before the end of the month. For the first time I’ve been struggling to find ideas for them. What a time to get writers block.
The last week or so has been tough for newer reasons. I’ve been working under the guise of avoidance being a problem solver. In reality, this isn’t a good way to manage mental health and wellbeing. I’d usually advocate facing problems andmanaging them first hand as being far more healthy. It certainly makes my wellbeing more manageable in the long-term. Right now I’m finding bad news, grief and difficult conversations incredibly triggering, so I try my best not to have any of it.
It’s a change in my behaviour, because I’ve always been the type of person who arrives with a problem and the solution ready to go (that’s what mum used to say about me!!) but these days I don’t know what to do or how to manage my incredibly overpowering emotional load. Panic sets in and it’ll spiral out of control far quicker than I can handle.
So, how do I actively avoid things? What do I do to keep my mind busy? Well, when my creativity is burned out and writing just doesn’t seem appealing, as someone who hasn’t left home for 3 years I guess I could be forgiven for finding indoors BORING. Thank goodness, therefore, for the television. In all it’s good and bad modes, it’s been helping me for the first time in many years.
But, truth be told, sometimes the stuff I watch isn’t as wholesome or educational as I wish.
This Haiku is dedicated to crap TV.
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Crap TV.
What’s on the TV?
That documentary starts soon.
Nah, Big Brother’s on.
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Remember if you need some distractions from stress then there are some rubbish jokes on my Hold Humour page, as well as haikus on Haiku Hope, awful poems on Crap Poems and odd language in Weird Words. I also have a page dedicated to stress hacks and other ideas to try if you need a distraction within the COPE campaign section of this website.
If you need support with your mental or physical health I also have pages on this website with information including opening times, telephone numbers and contact avenues for organisations that can help. Please visit the Get Support and Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Support Lines pages on this site.
Remember, you are not alone.
Thanks for visiting.
Creative Steph 