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Behavioural Activation

Two things a day that you actually like.

When anxiety or low mood takes hold, the things that used to give you pleasure are usually the first to go — and losing them feeds the mood further. Behavioural activation reverses that loop deliberately: you schedule small, valued activities and do them regardless of how you feel, because in practice the motivation arrives after the action, not before it.

1 What do you enjoy?

Tap everything that's true for you. Be honest rather than aspirational — things you have actually enjoyed before work far better than things you think you should enjoy.

2 How many a day?

Start at two. That is deliberately small — a target you will hit on a bad day is worth more than an ambitious one you abandon. Once two feels routine for a week or so, raise it.

2 a day
3 Today
4 This week

Your last seven days, and how many things you did on each. It fills in by itself as you tick things off above — there is nothing to set here.

Why it is worth having. When you are low, it is almost impossible to believe any of this is helping. That feeling is a symptom, not a report — and you cannot see progress from inside a single bad day.

Not a streak to protect. Blank days are expected and mean nothing about whether this is working. If several go by, make the daily target smaller rather than trying harder.

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