Other Drinking Water Is A Trigger

[The Albatross]

Of course equally up for grabs is desensitizing the trigger rather than accommodating it. Even if professional assistance is necessary. Triggers can be rectified.

 

[LuckiLee]

Pedialyte? They have popsicles too.

 

[Mee]

Ice works, would hot drinks? Herbal teas ( with good flavour), rooibus maybe?

 

[Friday]

On the other wet foods (not the dreaded fruit ;)) track

1/2 cup steel cut oats + 2 cups water
Saucy Pasta where he noodles just keep getting bigger and bigger
(mac’n’beef, chili Mac, mac’n’cheese)
Coconut milk jelll-o <<< I really love the idea of just adding gelatin to almost any liquid.

 

[Ronin]

*nods* I'm soo far bridging stuff with melted ice. And juice with ice. And totally loving suggestions.

Just super :banghead: about ability to respond to the topic. Tryyyna not avoid it tho & not avoid self care alike. :tup:

Shitf*ck. Worst progress report ever. But made a post.

// Or: compartmentalizing super hard & busy tricking brain into present reality. Since it already decided it ain't gonna dooo present on most things concerning me. While other people needed do's & recognition is still very present & on point. Hot damn annoying disorders.

 

[Ronin]

But yep.

Tldr what got me to ask at all was I hit the point somewhen... Thursday I couldn't even with a coconut water (my usual go to's no matter what / can with when bad hurt.) & that being loong way away from when teas & chai & herbal teas & warm healing stuff got the same nope like, a month ago.

So needing add stuff back up, instead of all the crap my body thinks is stellar to toss out as bad items. :bored: :mask:

 

[Sideways]

instead of all the crap my body thinks is stellar to toss out as bad items.

Brain says no, body says yes. Yes to water, in a big way. Is there negotiating that can be done here to turn this problem around, since it's getting worse?

Maybe a particular part is totally okay with drinking water?

I'm waaaay on the other side of this. I drink bucketloads a day, and if you live somewhere hot like I do, ice cubes and fruit don't cut it. They just don't. A few days on proper hydration feels good. There's so many parts of your body that appreciate it, function better because of it.

I water my plants and for some of them, no additional fertiliser is required. You watch yourself pouring litres of this pure, clear liquid on those plants and they thrive and throw out beautiful flowers. All because of this nectar of life.

I carry a water bottle with me everywhere. I sip. Sometimes I guzzle, but mostly its a slow and steady sipping, throughout the day. When I tip the bottle upside down there's this gulping sound as the water flops down to the other end of the bottle (how trippy is gravity!?). My lips are instantly softer - weird, yet cool! And I like my new purple water bottle, because the opening suits me and my teeth phobia better, but the hot pink that was my last bottle was a much more gratifying colour...

So many things for brain to wonder about and notice other than the drinking of it, if sitting there confronted with a glass of water is the issue. Our guts just looooove water - almost as much as my cordylines and peace lilys.

Sorry, maybe that was totally the opposite of what you need. But I'm thinking that indulging Mind as it runs away with stress about this, is self-sabotaging. Body matters just as much as Mind does. In fact, Mind is pretty dependent on Body getting its essentials. Body matters too, ya know?

ETA Managing my grey carpet trigger on an ongoing basis? A lot of that is mind-work. Taking back control of the irrational places my mind goes when it's been triggered by the carpet. Because the carpet is perfectly innocent. And water is a truly loving, nurturing friend. It's okay to remind Brain that we're safe, and we're thirsty, so we're gonna drink.

 

[Ronin]

Cough. Had similar long... lookit! Water noo big deal... watering the plants (those them ain't gone yet, fingers x'd.)

Tried to translate that to me care / didn't do.
Ditto, tried the parts workarounds, but even the twos with *most* issues with drinking be on the same page with wanna get this straight... and just can't.

So it's more like: Awesome, we're collectively f*cked, now how do I solve this bitch. *dry*

And you're right schtuff don't cut it.
But so far the best I can do with it.

Since hugelot of thoughts still default off 'everybody else I'd get to a hospital' back to 'the hell's your problem, I'm breathing / thinking / talk-able / walk-able / semi-eating semi-drinking, not on or under fire, I'm *fine.*

 

[Sideways]

Cool, so for now, the alternatives are working? Stick with that. For now.

Buys you plenty of time to start changing the internal narrative about hydrating. And for when things are more stable, or if hydration becomes a bigger deal, then is the time to draw a line in the sand with Brain and change things up.

Short term plan. Long term plan. Awesome, yeah?