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Thanks! I just plopped my weighted lap pad onto my lap. I am anxious about one of my calls and not focusing well. And the writing I have to read right now isn't written very well and is hard to read. I have my focus music going and my notebook out, so there is hope but I am not into what I have...

Doing good. Thanks! Have a lot of research and calls to do today for a grant-writing situation I am in. I am 15 minutes behind schedule (so far) because I am procrastinating. 😆 I hope you are feeling better. Have a great day! 🐳

Yes, she is. She sent me to PT and a hip specialist and she's continued my gabapentin RX for pain. I just started seeing her in Sept. or Oct., so this is a new go-round. Thank you. No, I have not tried this! And I have a TENS unit. My PT has done a couple of rounds of dry needling with...

That is a lovely idea! 👍 🐳

I am not a fan of the rock music in stressful situations. Why do people do that? I am sorry. This sounds horrible.

Alright guys. I have to get off of here for now. I hope you both have a good rest of your days. Take care. 🐳

That stinks. I am sorry. My mother-in-law is a handful. I have to work hard on myself when I see her.

I woke up while my fiance was dying from a heart attack. I didn't see it for long but it looked horrible. I am sorry you went through that hand for that long. Yikes.

LOL! I think sometimes I consider it a social challenge. I was on a roll there for a while, getting some pretty involved discussions going but that's what an undergraduate communications concentration will get you - nerdy fascination with how people get into discussions. 😁 It's good, though. I...

Quiet. I miss my husband's family more than he does. 😂 I never had 5 siblings and their families to hang out with before. We had planned to get back home this holiday season but it's not happening, now. I'll be glad when the holidays are over.

In the diary, like a discussion question or general quandary like what do you do when, or how do you feel about... Sometimes I get bored and think about what is going on in the world and just create a new thread (not a diary) that has some social relevance and have found that I get to converse...

I don't know if you are aware but my trauma diary is typically a long post in the morning that you have been responding to lately but I don't get a lot of responses to mine. I am convinced it is because my posts are too long, which is fine because I am using that as a diary more than as a place...

I can appreciate that. All three of the men I agreed to marry were or are very religious.

Yeah, how was Thanksgiving with Mom?

It probably does. I just hear about it from women more often. I know my picker is broken when I go out into the world and try to make friends. It's hard out there.

Hubby says something similar - that my best years are yet to come. I said they better be. We both have upcoming birthdays. He'll be 49 and I'll be 41. But I'm with @woodsy1 - I feel pretty beat up.

You both live alone, right? I don't envy that. It's hard to live alone. When I lived alone, I went out a lot more. It wasn't great because I met a lot of the wrong sorts of people but females do that from what I hear.

It's so weird to hear people in my age range call themselves old. I mean, I call my husband old, but come on, 50 is like the new 30 or something, isn't it?

Me too. My self-assessment is that I am an extrovert with social anxiety, so it's easy for me to stay inside even though I really need people around. Developing those skills are good for the brain, too.

I forgot about you having a cold. But are you feeling well enough to just do something around the house? I have to do a lot of modifications for myself, depending on what part of my body is being a jerk that day, so sometimes it's a speed walk outside or some time on the exercise bike, but...

That's a good idea. I miss actually seeing people. You seem to be pretty social. Sometimes I need to see people in real life.

Are you getting any exercise? That's my go-to for depression. Cardio helps depression A TON.

I am in and out today, but I am in right now. What's the matter?

That's huge. I had a decent therapist tell me she wasn't sure if she could help me and I told her basically what you said about your therapist and she stayed on board. If she starts to feel like she can't help, you telling her that she already has been might change her mind. I think most good...

Thanks! I never was a fan of pills, even during my hardest times but with GAD and PTSD, I've always had an emergency pill available. My panic has been known to get way too high to allow a coherent sentence to form and then make its way out of my mouth. Making videos has been a special kind of...