414. How to get out of a funk
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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Hello, everybody. I'm Gemma Speig, and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments, and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we break down the psychology of our 20s. Before we get into it, I know I said this in the last episode, but I want to keep reminding you all that this episode of the podcast and many others are now on Netflix in the UK, Australia, Canada, US, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa. I don't know. There's a lot of them, just to name a few.
So if you are a fan of watching watching podcasts, watching this podcast, as you listen to it, this is your chance. You can go and watch the video version of this very episode right now. Just go and search The Psychology of Your 20s on your Netflix app. Give it a go. See what all the fuss is about. See what I can't shut up about. And I hope you enjoy it. Today, we are talking about how to get out of a funk, how to get out of a season of life that honestly just feels very bland. And more than just bland, it feels very boring, frustrating, maybe even slightly depressing. I think it is so totally normal to go through periods like this. To go through periods where things are just not on the vibrational length that you want them to be.
But what can be worrying is when it begins to tank our entire perception of life. And we think that we're never going to get out of this state of mind. And it changes what we think we're capable of. It changes what we think the world is capable of. I found myself in a funk these past few months. I was just angry. I was just really angry at how much... is required to simply be an adult and I was angry at the world and I was angry at everybody around me and it really sucked but luckily I've been kind of clawing my way out of that and whether it's because it's suddenly summer in the UK, spring, but the sun is peeking through or whether it is the fact that I've been having some hard but very kind chats with myself, I have been feeling like this has paid off and I'm out of this like
little chapter I was in for a while. So I wanted to kind of share what I did, share why we end up in these kind of low points. And yeah, of course, some tips, some tips that you could put into place literally after you listen to this episode to get yourself out of a funk. So So what do we mean by being in a funk, right? I think we all know what it feels like to be in a bad mood. That is a very normal part of being human and of experiencing kind of like the ups and downs of life. We all know the experience of waking up and just feeling like the world is against us. But sometimes... that feeling, that terrible mood lingers. And it's not just one morning, it's every morning, it's every evening and it's every lunchtime and it just becomes so all-encompassing.
I think the biggest sign you are in a funk right now is when you find yourself taking every single neutral situation and unconsciously, without choosing to, turning them into negatives, right? Everything that happens to you ends up being terrible. Everything that happens to you, you interpret to be negative. It might feel like you just can't catch a break, whether it's to do with work, love, money, friendships, all of the above, or even just daily existence. Everything is annoying. Everything is slow. Everything goes wrong. In addition, I think what compounds this is that it can be really unclear as to why we're feeling this way. And I think feeling stuck and helpless are often signs of being in a funk as well.
Knowing you are the bad mood and not being able to change it. You might be thinking, Gemma, that sounds very similar to being depressed. And, yeah, I get why you would think that, honestly, and we can't deny they definitely go hand in hand a lot of the time, and often the funk is the precursor. But being in a funk is not clinical, and it's temporary.
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