How to get out of a life crisis on your own?

Everyone faces a crisis in life, to one degree or another. It can be the loss of a loved one, a serious illness, loss of a job and financial situation, divorce, loss of the meaning of life. And when a person meets with a crisis, he goes through 6 stages:
• 1. Shock. At this stage, it is difficult for a person to understand what is happening, to realize his condition.
• 2. Denial. Thoughts that come to mind "This can't be so", "It's not true, I don't want it to be true", "I don't want this to happen", "I don't believe".
• 3. Sharp experiences. At this stage, a person begins to feel emotions that originate inside and begin to manifest themselves in the outside world in the form of anger, aggression, fear, tears, screams, and many others.
• 4. Depression. This stage is also called the stage of exhaustion and apathy, because the previous stage took too much energy and vitality. The desire to get up in the morning, move and even live disappears.
• 5. Acceptance. A person begins to get used to new life circumstances, sometimes - to accept what happened.
• 6. Adaptation. At this stage, a person tries to find new supports and meanings in his life; begins to plan life in a new way.

During the crisis, there is a colossal burden on the human body and psyche.

On the bodily level:
• general weakness and increased fatigue appear,
• reduced immunity,
• protein, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism in the body is disturbed,
• increases blood sugar levels,
• pressure surges occur,
• hormonal imbalance occurs and reproductive function is disturbed,
• anemia,
• skin and hair problems appear,
• sleep is disturbed
• increases the risk of autoimmune and oncological diseases.

At the psychological level, a crisis is the strongest long-term stress that leads to such conditions as:
• increased excitability and anxiety,
• isolation and unwillingness to appear in society,
• powerlessness and emptiness
• emotional burnout,
• depression,
• suicidal moods.

The best thing you can do for yourself in crisis situations is to turn to a psychologist and nutritionist in time to prevent serious health problems at the physical and psychological levels.

Our body is a single integral system, the state of our body affects our psyche and vice versa.

A psychologist can help you figure out what happened. He will direct you to find new landmarks and meanings; help prevent deep depression. The nutritionist, based on the results of the tests and according to the symptoms, will prescribe the necessary micro- and macro-elements to replenish deficient conditions in the body.

However, even on your own, you can help yourself to live the crisis in an environmentally friendly way and gradually get out of it. What can be done?
• 1. Don't neglect your diet, sleep, and daily routines. Try to keep and continue doing what was customary before the crisis. This will help stabilize the condition.
• 2. Instead of hamburgers, French fries, pizza and sodas, opt for fresh fruits, vegetables and water. Such nutrition will give the body not only vitamins, but also will not allow you to go deeper into depression.
• 3. Try to move. Let it be even a short walk around the house. You will deal with stress faster by adding movement to your life,
• 4. If you do not want to communicate with anyone, make yourself a temporary but reliable friend - a diary. Tell it about emotions and experiences, about fears and lost landmarks. This will allow you not to keep emotions in yourself, but to get them out in an environmentally friendly way. Unlived and driven inside emotions in the body cause numerous diseases.
• 5. Do a general cleaning in the house. This will help clear your thoughts and free up energy for new thoughts, ideas, plans.
• 6. Become interested in the literature on the topic of the crisis. Divorce? Job loss? Serious disease? Find books by psychologists and start reading. Books provide a lot of useful information and can inspire change.
• 7. Don't give up on life. Try to find a new hobby and experiment. Hobbies are wonderful because they calm the mind, reduce the level of cortisol in the blood, and hence the stress load, dopamine and serotonin are produced - hormones of joy.
• 8. Try to accept the fact that it will not be the same as before. It will be somehow different and maybe even better! Analyze and understand for yourself that everything in life goes through the stage of creation, maintenance and destruction (end).
• 9. Start planning your day, writing a to-do list, and at the end of the day, check off what you have done with gratitude. Start simple, which doesn't require much effort.
• 10. Small plans lead to big ones! Start thinking about your life with new conditions. Start dreaming and planning. What kind of life do you want for yourself in the future and what can be done for this now?

By doing these simple actions, you can improve your emotional state noticeably and help yourself cope with difficult life situations on your own, preventing serious health consequences.