How much time you require to bounce back to normalcy, after a bad patch.

I depends on the degree of the impact of the incident upon me,whether good or bad.

Oh I am a moody person. My mood can suddenly change in just seconds. One moment I am happy the next I could just be annoyed. These sudden changes don't normally takes long. My mood swings are just temporary for me. But what takes long is when I feel disappointed or had ill feelings with someone I am related to. It could take weeks for me to patch things up or until I felt that I had forgiven the person and forgotten everything. When it comes to doing things, I don't really need to bounce back cause' I can easily adjust to situations. I am a flexible person too. Ciao!

I'm finding that the older I get the harder it is to bounce back after an illness. I had major back surgery a couple of years ago, and if I get down in my back, sometimes it is a week or more before I can bounce back. It makes my leg numb and my hip hurt and that makes me miserable.

Normally I would brood over a week if it's that serious. I would sulk and cry in my room. Then later I would think it through so that I could move on and go back to reality. If it's not that serious a few days will do. The point is I think is to deal with it the sooner the better. It is something that we should retain to our mind since it will affect us with our job and would only cause so much trouble. Though from time to time I would have some relapse still I think that my efforts are not in vain. It is a process that I'm sure we'll all get through.

I had a bad patch in 2004 and it was very bad that our family didn't had any income source and I had to leave my study to get a job. I did exactly that and it took almost 1 year for us to become stable but now since the Global Recession and the share market at their bottom, again affected us very very badly. We lost almost Rs 100-200K and I have no job too, so struggle is there and I don't know how long it would run for me!

i bounce pretty fast. i believe that being offended requires the permission of the offended party to let another person take over his or her sensibilities. nobody's perfect so i'm aware that i maybe criticized for a simple matter. the same goes out to the offender.

I'm not sure what a person would describe as "normal" for me, but I get your meaning. Normally it doesn't take me a huge amount of time, like I said...it's hard to describe what's "normal" for me. Change, turmoil...that's stuff I know how to handle. Whether it disturbs me, takes me by surprise, hurts me, whatever...I tend to start adapting and adjusting as it happens. Unless it's not extremely serious, it's generally not a smooth thing, but meh ^_^'

To me it is the same for all. It all depends on the size of impact. For me it has always been easy to get going even after been jolted physically but once I am mentally down, I am gone for long.

I feel the same way. I have severe depression and my worst bout to date took me over two years to get over. So it just depends. If the stress load gets too heavy I am better equiped now days to eleviate it. I think it takes some forethought and where with all to be ready for them when they come on. Bounce back seems like a sort off beat way of saying it. Just come back from seems more apropriate to me.

As others have said, it does depend on the extent of the incident. I read somewhere that there are people who can take as long as two years to get over a broken relationship and that is not abnormal. Day to day issues I can put behind me at the end of each day because I see no point in holding on to past issues and I like to start each day anew. If someone has hurt my feelings it can take as long as it would to discuss it with the other person and hopefully sort it out but, again it depends on how close I am to the other party and what the situation is about. All in all I bounce back relatively quickly; there are a few hurts that I have experienced that cause me to still feel a twinge every now again but as a rule I don't like to hold onto the past; I like to move on as soon as possible.

Hi my friend Rajib...Did you write this question to see if I would answer?..lol That is a loaded question. We all respond differently to different situations and we all need different amounts of time required to grieve or to heal. Well I have to tell you that when you met me, you met one tough resilient person. I bounce back very quickly and dont let things bother me that wont effect my life. I prefer not to argue and appreciate all the good things life has to offer. Now one time you said that you thought I must have went through some bad time in my life..Well you were right my friend, and many of them. I am lucky to be alive today and for it I am truely grateful. I spend as much time as possible, making my life light hearted, and making others laugh. Dont worry, I am not a bad person, it was nothing I did, but what others did to me and what resulted. Nobody will take the smile from my face ever again!... See..I have learned to be optimistic too!

Rajib- Dear friend, there are things that I'm still trying to recover from. Some scars just never go away, but they become a distant memory, yet like any scar you still see it. For me, the abuse of my first marriage has never fully gone away, but I'm maintaining a life with a new wonderful husband. I had a hurt of a friend not long ago, and that honestly went away very quickly. I know the person not to be a good friend, and even though there was some residual things said, I found myself healed rather quickly moving on to new things. Financial upsets sometimes take me a bit longer to recover from, yet I try to maintain a good focus during them. During such times I call upon Ganesh for aide and strength. His shoulders are large enough to bear the momentary struggles I'm feeling, and I find that once I do this I'm no longer as worried and I simply work through until they are solved. Health, well that's another issue. I suffer from a few health issues and when I'm down, I'm down. Again, I try not to let it affect my spirits. I try to make sure I inform others if I'm down and then I just do my best. My husband is wonderful in that he helps me a great deal through them. One of the things I struggle with is an eating disorder, and he's one to check on me if he notices me skipping meals, etc. Thank you once again for a lovely discussion topic. Namaste-Anora

Like you, it would depend on the circumstances. I still have not "bounced back to normalcy" post Katrina, but I have long stopped trying. Things change and sometimes you have to learn to adapt.

I agree that it would depend on the nature of the issue - there have been times where I bounced back so quickly that I was amazed at myself. Yet, there were also some moments where I felt like it kept dragging on and no matter how much I made a conscious effort to get myself out of it, nothing seemed to change. Those are the times I look to a higher power...The Universe, All That Is, God (however you would like to call it). I try to reach out, let my Spirit elevate and get closer to the Universal Power and remind myself that I am not alone. It is so easy to forget that we are never alone. What we need to do is keep trying to make the bond we have with each other stronger and send positive energy out. We are resiliant and sooner or later, we make it through every single bad patch - it suffices to want to bounce back and to never give up.

This depends on the kind of incident and the emotional trauma it had on me.Some incidents have affected me so deeply that even a long lapse of years keep the pain lingering ,though the intensity has reduced.

Though I am a sensitive woman and get hurt easily but the good thing about me is I bounce back at lightning speed. I am back to normalcy as soon as I find my right tempo again. The longer I dwell on my sadness or whatever happens that saddens me, the more it affects my mind with unhappiness. In split seconds you can see me smiling again as if I have not been in trouble. No matter what mistakes you have made, no matter how you've messed things up, you can still make a new beginning.

I does depend on what it was, but in general of late I try to smile and think of the positive, listen to music, get out into nature and that brings me out of a funk much more quickly than sitting around dwelling on it.

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hi, dada...! i bounce back to normalcy the moment i feel that i am among people with whom i don't have to share my grief. moreover, i don't feel like sharing my emotions with anyone so i look and sound normal almost every time... but for the real me, if i say franklly, it takes time to get over things... probably because i don't discuss..