Mental Health Monday: Adults Get Bored Too

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're waking up with fifth in the morning time. Kiss.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's just a couple of minutes for mental health Monday.
If I can just take up two or three minutes,
I'm hoping this tip will just make your day.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
A little bit better.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Laurie Sharpage is our licensed clinical counselor. She used to
come on for just relationship advice on Tuesdays and we've
shifted things to Mondays. When adults experience boredom, I feel
like that's hard to like admit out loud.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Right sure, kids are always like I'm bored, mom, but
adults get bored too, especially right now if you're bored
of basketball, I.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Mean xavior like people are sad about Xavier.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I understand that, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
So boredom is an emotion that, like like any emotion,
we feel a lot of the time, but for adults,
we will often dis miss it, like we have these
ideas that only boring people get bored, But the truth
is is that all of us get bored. It's just
a normal feeling, but it's a hard one to cope
with because a lot of times we judge that boredom.
So the first thing is just like Okay, so you're bored. Okay,
you're tired of talking about the brackets. You're bored of it,

(01:02):
you don't want to watch another game, you're bored of it.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I get it. It's okay, don't judge it.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Your eyes are bleeding because you've watched thirty six hours
of college basketball.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I get that. So the first thing is just don't
judge it, just allow it to be.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
The second thing is, if you're bored, you need to
redirect yourself into something.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
So this is a great time too.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
If you can get up, go outside, touch grass, walk around,
move your body. If not, if you can't do that,
even just moving your position, getting up and walking around,
changing to a different room is important because the longer
you stay in that pattern, the more bored you'll get,
and the more bored you're. Like, boredom can really leave
to lead to anger and irritation very easily, because it's
an uncomfortable state and we need to interrupt it.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
So you know, you're not mad, you're just hungry. It's
the same thing. You're not mad, girl, you're just bored.
It's bored.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, exactly, So you know, don't judge it, move around,
and then the final thing is just like find those things,
those little tiny things in life that spark your joy
no matter where they are. So for me it's a
simple thing. But I love the smell of like citrus,
Like that'll always lift my mood and it can be
a good thing to interrupt boredom, just with something delightful

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that you enjoy.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We're just trying to make things a little bit better
for you on this mental health Monday. I am going
to put you on the spot and ask one last
question though, even though we should wrap this some.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Hobbies. That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I literally said to myself, like, what are some adult
hobbies that I can do that don't involve watching Severance
on Apple TV or scrolling my phone outside of working out,
going outside? What are some adult hobbies that you might
have some insight?

Speaker 4 (02:37):
That is such a great question. I was actually just
having this conversation with a friend of mine. It can
be really hard when you find yourself in a rut
and you're like, what do I do now? We're always changing,
we're always evolving, and so my best advice for that
is go out and try some new things, do things
that are outside your comfort zone. Okay, you know, and
allow them to also be small things. Just try them
and if it sparks just a little bit of joy

(02:59):
or interest, send you go back around and do it again.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
All right.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
You don't need to spiral and buy the entire bead
kid okay from Amazon.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
You here making brace you can, but you don't have
to thank you.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Lori Shapage at the Coping Queen is her social handle.
If you're like, oh, I like this gal, I want
to know more, and then she stops by the show
every Monday. In the meantime, we're still commercial free and
we're not far off from your chance to win.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Ten different tickets.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Maybe concerts can be your hobby this year.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Sure yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Our Banger Rackets Challenge continues at seven point forty.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Don't go far.