Ysiad

I popped out of culture shock induced depression yesterday, about 18 hours after its onset.

That’s a pretty short period of time to be depressed. Maybe I was just in a bad mood for a day. What alarmed me about this mood swing was that it started at the end of one day and was still there when I woke up.

On the off-chance that the mood swing was indeed culture shock, and that this information could be helpful to myself and other people, here are the things that helped get over it.

• Time passing. Eighteen hours passed between when I started feeling bad and when I got better. Time is a powerful thing
• Doing something familiar. Shopping at places with fixed prices felt pretty good.
• Acknowledging that I was a little depressed. That meant that I could apply depression-fighting tactics like making conscious effort to smile to not spread my bad mood.
• Daya’s treating me to some treatments at a beauty salon!??