How Has Everyone's Week Been So Far?

[intothelight]

Last week was a challenge as I had to push myself in different ways and I did well in some areas and not so well in others. I am very good at attending to what I see as a priority, but I do not make myself a priority enough when time is crunched. Some days were better than others, but it is the start of a new week and will carry the lessons learned forward.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I had a good week. Anxiety levels are down and my mood is stable and optimistic. I have the girls, my granddaughters and we are having so much fun. I got a job application finished online, what a relief, as I really need a job and I joined an organization that I have to pay for but well worth it, that does job searches for me so if I find one that I like it is just apply and go on to the next one. Took all of the frustration and hassle out of the job hunting for me as before I was just going from place to place looking for a job.

I think that this is a really great thread and I thank you for it.

 

[Deleted member 20280]

My week started as per my first reply on this thread 'Shit' However is has ended on a high for me :)

Feeling much better about life in general now too.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

On here, fantastic. In reality, depressing and scary. I told a new counsellor something I've been holding for a very long time but I don't see her again till mid August. I'm stuck in a life I hate.

 

[The Albatross]

Mixed bag... but I just keep saying "it's life. This is life... roll with it and manage as best as I can." Some good moments, punctuated with some very emotionally charged things. But hey... every day's a new day, that's what I've been told (Obscure Don Henley lyric).

 

[Saint Nik]

Feeling much better about life in general now too.

Brilliant @Mr Laurie :tup:

I'm stuck in a life I hate.

@Cj77 I know you will want to scream at me for saying this, but remember, it's just a thought, just a feeling and these both pass. Always. When August comes you will wonder why you allowed yourself to dwell and worry so much. . . it will pass and you have all us here if you want to talk about it, express yourself, share your experience, get the feedback you are needing from all of us for the time being :hug:

 

[Gadgie]

Never went out today, but I am definitely going out tomorrow, I have set myself that target. No matter what the weather is like, I am going out.

That's what I do every day, set a target then go for it, and if I don't achieve it, then I have let myself down, and living alone, I only have myself to blame.

Today I had given myself a few jobs that needed done in the garden, and managed to do them before the rain came, so today I did something positive.

 

[Saint Nik]

set a target then go for it, and if I don't achieve it, then I have let myself down, and living alone, I only have myself to blame.

This thinking won't help you @Gadgie please have compassion in yourself and realise PTSD is f*cking hard to live with, it's debilitating!
Even think about it this way, if any of us had set a challenge for ourselves to do something, get out there, but when it came to it we didn't do it. . .should we take the same approach and beat ourselves up? No way!
Actually, I had something planned at the beginning of last week and because of symptoms playing up and flared up badly, I just point blankly refused to go, yeah, I did beat myself up, but that makes me feel worse, took me by the 2nd day to tell myself - Look, it's okay, this is tough and you can't just disregard all the the progress you have made. . .just a set back and you can give it much power as you want to either keep beating yourself up or just make the decision that it was one of those days where I couldn't do it, but you know you will, just that day wasn't it!
You are doing great, I know it doesn't feel like that, but you are, because no matter what, you still try and I know through my own PTSD how f*cking hard that is and it's huge for us to keep trying, surviving and pushing ourselves! But, we are still doing it none-the-less! :)
And you still managed to do things you wanted to do as you said in your reply. So no, you are not to blame for the doom and gloom days. . . I hope you remember that and that you are tough :hug:

 

[The Albatross]

Touch and go... mostly go. Reactivity was mild under the circumstances and that's about as good as it gets so far this year. Tough year.

 

[Changing4Best]

I'm also bipolar as well as PTSD. I am in the middle of a manic (the upper end of my mood swings). It has been going on for quite some time, but it suddenly occurred to me that this has happened only yesterday. Previous to that, I went on an expensive shopping by phone spree in which I blew far more money than I should have, something I can ill afford to do, since I live on a very limited income. I have been getting an average of 4 hours of sleep for the past several days, eating way too much, gaining weight and in general doing all sorts of things I should not be doing to myself. So, you could say I am having a rough week. Oh, and let me not fail to mention that I have a sore throat and an ear ache. Probably from all the stress I am putting myself through.

 

[Gadgie]

Aye! Saint Nik, I hit the wall today, the weather got me down for a start, as it's been posing down for the last two days, and that's when the depression sets in for me?

Once that has got me, my whole attitude changes, and to make things worse, the mood swings came as well, so it's been a crappy time all round for me.

I've just finished with. Face Time from my sister, she lives in Holland, and that cheered me up a wee bit. We have just got back in touch after a twenty years of not being in touch.

It was weird how I found her address, I was going through some old books that I was clearing out, and a peace if paper fell out if one, it turned out to be my sisters new address!

 

[Saint Nik]

It was weird how I found her address, I was going through some old books that I was clearing out, and a peace if paper fell out if one, it turned out to be my sisters new address!

Aww Brilliant! I am glad you came across your sisters address! Don't know if you believe in higher powers, universal energies or even God? But they say when we need certain things in our lives they come to us in the most strangest, coincidental ways :D
Whether you believe it or not. It's up to you. But I am glad speaking with your sister after all this time cheered you right up! :tup: