baronessekat | Challenge Question #4

(two and three will come. they require more thinky thoughts for an answer)

apidae asked: Does the Glad Game help?

Now that I've been doing it for 5 months now, I have to say yes. I spend too much time dwelling on the bad, negative and depressing things that happen in a day that stopping and making myself find a happy thing, even something as small as "I found $1 in my pocket" helps me to remember that life is more than just the crappy, stressful, negative things.

I don't know if anyone else cares about my "happy thoughts of the day" but they do help me. By doing it this year, I found that my usually depressive February was not so depressive. The hard days aren't as bad when I remember that I have a puppy that loves me or we made Miss Molly smile by visiting the Nursing Home today or I had a yummy dinner.

I do not know if I will continue the exercise after the year is over. I might drop it down to a good thing a week.

So the simple answer is... yes.