I Need To Fix It

[shimmerz]

Anybody here get all freaked out when they can't 'fix it'?

 

[sun seeker]

Way to get my attention when I'm on my way out the door! :)

In a word, yes.

 

[Tanishq]

No, but I can't sleep when I can't 'fix it'.

 

[shimmerz]

but I can't sleep when I can't 'fix it'

lol. Wouldn't that qualify as freaked out? Just sayin...... :whistling::whistling::whistling:

 

[Tanishq]

Shimmerz tricky thing to experience.

Edited: I think I used a wrong phrase, so changed the post to make my post more clear. :sorry:

 

[Ronin]

All of the time. Most pissed off (/scared-> angry, we don't do scared ;):banghead:) about things I can't fix and nobody can fix.

 

[Hope4Now]

Aren't I supposed to be able to fix EVERYTHING? Stop the wars. Feed the hungry. Shelter the homeless. Cure the sick. Teach everyone how to read and write and stand up for their rights? End global warming. Save the animals. Fix the toilet and the toaster and the hot water heater and the car. Help my children feel confident. Help my husband stop running all the time. Make enough money to pull all poor people out of poverty AND pay for my kids' schools and the house and so I don't feel horrible guilt if I want to buy a new shirt or go to a movie or get a massage. Fix my dog's sprained leg. Make my mother have the life she wishes she had. Cure cancer and multiple sclerosis and autism and all the other horrible things that make people suffer and sorrow...and and and
:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

Some would call this a Jesus complex. A delusion of grandiosity.
I call it hyperempathy that is foiled by the laws of physics as they rule the spacetime continuum in which we exist.
Or, maybe it's just plain old developmental trauma where somehow my brain got wired to believe that I am responsible to

FIX. IT. ALL.

 

[Eleanor]

Waddaya mean "When you can't fix it?" Them's fightin' words.:mad::blackeye: :D


(guilty as charged.)

 

[Tanishq]

@Eleanor that's how I go into self beatup sometimes. :)

 

[Owl.]

Not on the truly great scale, no. Even this messed-up mind knows it can't lead the world into everlasting peace and prosperity.

"Small" scale? As in my immediate surroundings? I HAVE GOT TO MAKE IT ALL RIGHT! And that has to happen NOW!
It's probably one of the things I'd be most happy to get rid of if I could. Not to a point where all empathy would be lost, but just to some place where I could exist in this world without driving myself and everyone around me completely batty trying to "fix" what I have no power over.
It'd be a nicer, easier place...and I'd probably scare fewer people halfway to death. :bag:

 

[shimmerz]

and and and

shit man, you sound busy! How do you have time to post? Don't you have stuff to do? lol. :O_o:

I think this is why I did the work I used to do. Nothing to keep my mind busy like fixing computers. A never ending list of stuff to keep me busy. That and the farm, the kids, my friends, the cottage, my charity work - you know, really busy emulating Mother Teresa. I can lol you Hope because I know your life. Actually, I don't know it anymore. I buy Velcro shoes now because I have a hard time pulling off the intricate knots necessary for shoe laces. :blackeye: Tough to get Velcro in the 4" heel model though.

So what is this? Distraction? OCD stuff?

 

[MT Johnny]

What is the "it"? If it's my MH issue(s), be it PTSD or possibly bipolar, yes, absolutely, I've been trying to "fix it" for 2 1/2 years and it seems like the harder I try, the worse my life becomes - WTF is up with that? So yes, I absolutely get freaked out, I am currently freaked out, and from what I can tell, the entire "it" that is my world is about one final straw away from an epic break.