5 Things I'm Thinking Today

[VioletButterfly]

1. I have a great many challenges facing me right now and it is okay for me to feel overwhelmed.

2. I have skills and knowledge that can help me navigate my life and which can help others.

3. I have opportunities and choices.

4. I can make myself into who I want to be.

5. I am loved. I am worthy. I am enough.

 

[Lionheart]

I am having trouble adjusting to life without my sister and I think that is okay, ...for now.
I think I need acknowledgment more than anything else.
I think I love deeply the ones I care for and so losing them hurts...a lot!
I think I have found a home for sister's puppy.
I think I am gonna have new room-mates come the first of the month.

 

[NatBird]

I am a slob and have really let myself go!
Wow, how the hell did that get done while I'm feeling so shit
It's better for me to give up and accept I am not capable of intimate relationships
There are people who like, care about and love me.
All of this is pointless and its all ways of playing out time
ah! critic I recognise you!

 

[Tinyflame]

My critic rents space for free like yours, @NatBird. :hug: No, I guess at quite a great price.
I need Tylenol to overcome the procrastination- pain is the cause atm.

 

[NatBird]

My critic rents space for free like yours, @NatBird. :hug: No, I guess at quite a great price.
I need Tylenol to overcome the procrastination- pain is the cause atm.

@Junebug hope it eases soon as

 

[Tinyflame]

Thank you @NatBird . :hug: I was thinking, out here mental illness is defined as the difficulty or inability to cope with everyday stressors. Which by this point, speaking for myself, is true. :( Yet, how many anything-but-ordinary stressors did we always bear, and kept our marbles, and how many stressors even today are not 'ordinary'? And truly, how many people do we know, who can also bear their stress, especially without harmful or avoidant means? Or ever could, generations past?

But, so much is in response to the stress. Yes, of course, it hits us hard. But how can we learn new ways to respond, even if it's so very difficult. Is that not overcoming cognitive distortions; fear; even the fight-flight-freeze-(fawn) response? We may want fight-or-flight - do we? We may want to avoid, will we choose otherwise? We may feel like we're hit by a truck, will we go out and make the best of it, or recognize we need rest, but not give up? Will we say, I can't find it in me to believe, but I will try to continue.

ETA, and if mental health is coping with stressors, what enables that? What can we do, think, feel? What helps us do that, what do we need?

 

[VioletButterfly]

I am capable of changing even though acting on this truth is exceptionally difficult for me.
I am experiencing an extended season of pain, grief, remorse, and hurt.
Better days and a better are possible.
Self-care and compassion are "supposed" to be my primary focus right now.
The World can be a scary place for me and it's okay to plan work-arounds to lessen the stress/distress of it all.

 

[Tinyflame]

I heard even praising ourselves for something small, hugging ourselves, or a hug, interferes with hypervigilance and the threat system. And a surge of adrenaline is a primary cause of procrastination. Weird. Who knew. It came to my mailbox but I procrastinated about opening it, lol. At least there's lots of room for improvement. :rolleyes:

If/ when I get old I will look so funny= dark brown eyes and shiny whitish/ light silver hair like Christmas tree tinsel. Wow what a sight. It's really shiny and bright though. I'll be sure to wear green and red and stay still. ?? (Scare a few old people and small children when the Tree starts talking?)

 

[Abstract]

I need fundamental change in my life.
Sick and tired of peoples behaviour.
Radical acceptance changed my life
Why do I think 5.30 is an acceptable time to sleep.
change is never ending nesting doll multilayered process.

 

[NatBird]

I hope I'm getting back into practice
Oh well this is me
Will I ever have the spacious mind where I recognized feelings and thoughts as not me, not mine
Can I be in good shape again (internally, externally)

 

[NatBird]

I'm a coward
I get too sucked into my thoughts
Maybe there is hope for me

 

[Tinyflame]

I wouldn't equate that to 'cowardly'? , @NatBird :(

1. I am grateful
2. I totally forgot- saw it again reviewing course material, they defined 'family' as an informal group/ people who support one another- nothing to do with 'being related', proper. :wideeyed: In fact, it was as per end of life care, and saying in no way question or interfere with restricting access, to anyone who a patient defines as (their) family; family is who they define- period. Must be a new definition? :wideeyed:
3. I had the neatest thing! -To anyone who knows a cold climate and snow, that kind of snow where the flakes are soft and big- feathery, they're literally soft when they land on your skin, these were a little bigger than nickels, and if you watch they 'float' around, kind of dance around then land. It's super cool, like being in a real-live snow globe! :) It looks like that fake snow in the movies, lol. It only happens about once every 5 or 10 years, that I've ever been in it.
4. Oh ya, ETA, I always come across heart-shaped things, so I look down, there at my feet while waiting was an orange one- it was an orange peel, lol. :rolleyes: Oh ya, and a cookie I took out for a client the other day. Well, I could go on of many I can't even recall. The last was a salt stain on my boot. ?