There comes a time when someone new comes into your life to open an exciting chapter in your life. This time you see the brighter and positive side of life. If all men could be like Brian, the world would be better. He is that guy that stays by your bed to rub your hands when you are sick. During your bad days, he cheers you up. He plans special occasions so you can see how much he cares about you. He is so thoughtful.
His presence always ushers something new and exciting into your life. Brian truly has remarkable qualities and a deep understanding of your struggles and mental illness. Among all the men you’ve dated, he is the only one who shows you genuine concern while you struggle with anxiety, insomnia, and chest tightening.
He calmly finds a solution without hesitation when you face obstacles or challenges because you are his priority. Fate sent him to you to help you overcome your struggle, to teach you a few things, and to enable you to relearn a few things.
It’s wonderful to see how cleverly Brian analyzes and acts in a situation with his creative ideas and inventiveness. Sometimes, you watch Brian treat himself to long luxurious soaks when he is having a bad day, or feeling sick or sore after a workout. He often uses Altitude Bath Soak, because the blend is punchy and mind-clearing, with pine, eucalyptus, and peppermint. You marvel at how easily he takes care of himself in general and notice that baths are a big part of that.
He always emphasizes that the simplest thing that can have one of the biggest effects on overall health is “baths”. Brian taught you that warm baths when incorporated into one’s routine at least twice a week strengthen your body’s circadian rhythms. This benefit is for people experiencing depression symptoms, which include a lack of energy, disrupted sleep patterns, and a negative mood.
The circadian rhythm refers to the 24-hour cycle that regulates bodily functions, from sleeping to waking. It dictates sleeping patterns, blood pressure, blood sugar, melatonin levels, and general alertness.
Strengthening your circadian rhythms by consistently taking a warm bath can lead to a more regulated sleep cycle. This will prevent too much or too short sleep. Additionally, it can increase your energy so that you can focus on the things that bring you joy. In fact, there is a serious need for you to rediscover and experience the power and effects of relaxing in a long soak in the bath.
Today you decided to take a bath. It’s been ten days without bathing, brushing your teeth, or stepping out of your house. You’ve had depression issues for most of your life. Living with such sickness makes you pass through periods where the motivation to do anything, especially to take a bath is at a zero level.
For someone living with depression, each simple task can seem enormous or even impossible. In your mind, you know you need to get up from your bed every morning and do the necessary, but how can that happen so easily when you feel too tired and exhausted to be able to get up from your bed? Every morning comes with this black fog pushing you further down into your bed. This leaves you wondering if it matters if you don’t take a shower or brush your teeth.
You think sleeping for hours refreshes and resets your body and mind. However, in the end, you realize you’ve spent hours in bed and are still exhausted. Staring at your bathroom mirror, you wonder how long is too long without a bath.
Following Brian’s luxurious bath method, you light your favorite candles and incense and listen to music. You season your bath with your favorite salts, bath bombs, lavender, and tea tree essential oils. You immediately remove your towel and enter the tub. Sinking into the hot fragrant water, you instantly feel your long-lost version coming up for air.
Water is so soothing. You reconnect your beautiful body and mind positively and joyfully.
Your long, tangled hair comes out of that 10-day bun, and you sit inside swirling water while thinking about your mental and physical state. Your hair is all tangled. The way it tumbles down your back reminds you it has seen better days.
You shampoo knotted thick and curly hair with great effort. Your hair hasn’t been combed and oiled for ten days. Your hair obviously needs moisture.
You can feel the strands of dead hair falling off her head. Can depression cause hair loss? Can anxiety and stress also cause your hair to fall out?
These are questions searching for answers in your head. Today, you learn something new, which is that leaving your genetically beautiful curls unkempt and uncared for can cause hair breakage. You grab your conditioner and run it through your hair to give it new life. Your hair needs moisture.
Your body is too oily, coupled with dirt and body odor. Dirty patches are visible on your yellow skin. Your body is disgusting, stinking, and disappointing.
There’s enough hair in your body’s upper and lower regions. Immediately you go to work. You apply soap to your loofah and start from the neck, behind the ears down to the armpits. Your loofah goes under the breasts, on your belly, inside your belly button, and in your groin areas. You wash as hard as your strength can carry because you are filthy. Ten days without a bath is not a lifestyle for someone mentally stable. It will be seen as disgusting by many people, but for a mental patient, it is the norm.
You rinse off your soapy body and watch as dirty water swirls down the drain. Now you realize that you neglected and punished this beautiful body so much by leaving it dirty and stinking. Oh, this beautiful face of yours hasn’t seen any water in ten days. It’s so greasy from not being near water. You pour face wash onto your hand and massage it deeply into your face.
This action clears oils and debris off of the face. That’s the power of a face wash. It attacks dirt and oil that clogs the face. When you’re depressed, a hot bath acts like a warm hug, a safety and reassurance thing, and a full-body anti-anxiety method. When you’re manic, you get the relaxing effect from hot water dilating your blood vessels and relaxing muscles.
Bathing is a constant struggle for people like you living with depression. However, today you discover that a luxurious bath can serve as a huge form of relaxation with profound effects on your mood.
