Changing4Best
MyPTSD Pro
I think it might be helpful for us to make lists of the kinds of things that we do to make ourselves happy. I'd love to read your lists and additions to things that make you happy as you discover more of them. Also, we can be helped by reading everyone's lists and trying some of those things too.
Here is my list:
1. I write letters to prisoners whose names and addresses I found on WRITE A PRISONER websites.
2. I write birthday cards to missionaries that my international church supports.
3. I read my Bible early each morning, and it also has a devotion in it for each day's reading.
4. I go to our local Senior Center, visiting with folks in my age group. We have an exercise program especially designed for Seniors. Then we play games like Bingo or Toss The Bean Bag. We also have lunch there and get chances to go shopping from the bus that transports us there. And there are field trips to go Thrift Store shopping to nearby towns. We have lunch in restaurants while there also. We have so much fun at the Center and on the bus and field trips. I feel loved, accepted and in general have been a much healthier, happier person since I started attending there most days since about a year ago.
5. I love listening to music. I listen to a station online at http://georgia.thejoyfm.com/index.php.
6. My best friend Tina, who is also PTSD, comes to visit me once a month. I even pay her bus fare for her, since she is poorer than I am. (I just live on my government pension, which is enough to by on, but certainly is not a lot more that that). She has no job and gets no money at all. She gets help buying food from our government and lives with her boyfriend.
7. I go to Bible Studies at my church, eat at our fellowship meal every week and serve on a church committee too. My church is such a blessing to me in countless ways!
8. And last but certainly not least, I come to the PTSD Forum here and share my thoughts, my caring support and advice and also my prayers with all of you. This place is such a blessing to me. I have have been a member for over 3 years now and I just want to take this time to personally thank @anthony and @Nicolette for this wonderful place.
I can't wait to read your lists!
Here is my list:
1. I write letters to prisoners whose names and addresses I found on WRITE A PRISONER websites.
2. I write birthday cards to missionaries that my international church supports.
3. I read my Bible early each morning, and it also has a devotion in it for each day's reading.
4. I go to our local Senior Center, visiting with folks in my age group. We have an exercise program especially designed for Seniors. Then we play games like Bingo or Toss The Bean Bag. We also have lunch there and get chances to go shopping from the bus that transports us there. And there are field trips to go Thrift Store shopping to nearby towns. We have lunch in restaurants while there also. We have so much fun at the Center and on the bus and field trips. I feel loved, accepted and in general have been a much healthier, happier person since I started attending there most days since about a year ago.
5. I love listening to music. I listen to a station online at http://georgia.thejoyfm.com/index.php.
6. My best friend Tina, who is also PTSD, comes to visit me once a month. I even pay her bus fare for her, since she is poorer than I am. (I just live on my government pension, which is enough to by on, but certainly is not a lot more that that). She has no job and gets no money at all. She gets help buying food from our government and lives with her boyfriend.
7. I go to Bible Studies at my church, eat at our fellowship meal every week and serve on a church committee too. My church is such a blessing to me in countless ways!
8. And last but certainly not least, I come to the PTSD Forum here and share my thoughts, my caring support and advice and also my prayers with all of you. This place is such a blessing to me. I have have been a member for over 3 years now and I just want to take this time to personally thank @anthony and @Nicolette for this wonderful place.
I can't wait to read your lists!