Always giving up when feeling the slightest bit of negative emotions or going through a rough patch. Any advice to fix this?
To start things off, I (23r) am an art student who currently studies character design and wants to lose weight, and not to brag but I like to think of myself as ambitious when feeling okay; mentally speaking. When the days are normal and nothing bad happens, I feel as though I can get up, exercise, get my pencil ready and study away. There have been times in the past where I keep things pretty consistent too, reaching as far as three months without stopping (that may seem small to some people but its pretty big for me)
The problems arise when I'm going through anything negative. Lets say my manager at my job gets snappy with me, I get into a small argument with my wife or if I'm even just feeling anxious about something, I almost immediately give up on what i'm doing, and stop for days on end. In fact I even start to falter in other areas such as self care and even splurge finances on takeout. This has happened multiple times and usually takes months of self-soothing to even come back from, and by the time I actually feel "okay" again, im back to square one.
basically what I'm asking is how do I gain resilience from this? I internalize all of the negative external stuff and always self-sabotage as a result of trying to cope or "feel good" in the moment, and I want to put a full stop to that. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.