What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

[franciemarnie]

Feeling quite excellent after 6 mile walk in fresh air. Mind is clear. Heart is light. Feel gentle contentment. Hungry. Going to eat.

 

[EverOnly358]

I am so pleased to read this. Put it on your lists of successes.

I will! It is really good actually... in the past I would have chickened out and decided not to go out. So, progress. Thanks for all your encouragement, it means a lot! :joyful:

Feeling good today.

I was so happy to see you feeling good! :D

@DMerish, wow! What a work week! You deserve lots of rest and relaxation (and no stupid cars outside your house at 4:00am! ;))

@franciemarnie, I think it's really good that you know it's all the PTSD. Hopefully all these feelings will run their course quickly and you'll get a break. I'm looking forward to the walking paths around my house being defrosted, too! Fingers crossed... there is A LOT of snow and ice. ;)

I really appreciate everyone's comments and support! :)

What am I feeling? :cautious:

Still sick with this cold, but feeling a little bit better. :depressed: Just hanging in there, hoping to feel better soon. Trying not to feel guilty or worried... I mean, colds happen, they do. It's not the end of the world that I'm not running around doing everything. Things will wait. It's okay. (Okay... those words are SO :eek: BIZARRE coming from my mouth, LOL! :laugh: I'm trying here, trying really hard!)

I'm wishing everyone a really good weekend! :joyful:
Be happy, be well, be at ease,
EverOnly

 

[franciemarnie]

@EverOnly358 - I sure hope you feel better soon. Don't forget to guzzle fluids like there's no tomorrow and wee your way back to health!! I get really down and out when sick. We have so much going on already - then add a cold and it can feel too too much!

I am still feeling dandy. Competent, peaceful. Looking forward to my favorite show tonight and an excellent article on how PTSD effects the brain. I read it twice but it's pretty clinical - though cleanly written. I also feel full. Ate too much at dinner!

 

[ms spock]

I will! It is really good actually... in the past I would have chickened out and decided not to go out. So, progress. Thanks for all your encouragement, it means a lot! :joyful:

We really need to focus on the positive things that we achieve. That way we have real evidence to break down that distorted PTSD thinking.


Encouraging each other is one of the joys - to see people grow and change and make progress. To set their own personal goals and achievements. To see them slip and slide but get there in various ways and stages.

I was so happy to see you feeling good! :D

Feeling bad is not always bad. For me it means I am pushing through the PTSD related stuff and growing and changing. But actually feeling better and have a good day is really nice as well. I have had a couple of good days so I am grateful for that.

I really appreciate everyone's comments and support! :)

It is nice to be part of a community, even with out different stages of healing, thought processes and opinions and offering out and getting support, is really quite lovely to my mind. I do appreciate it as well.

It's not the end of the world that I'm not running around doing everything. Things will wait. It's okay. (Okay... those words are SO :eek: BIZARRE coming from my mouth, LOL! :laugh: I'm trying here, trying really hard!)

And you are having success! So well done! And you are injecting your sense of humour in as well. Which is lovely.

 

[ms spock]

I am feeling good that I did some exercise. A friend came over with her granddaughter and it was lovely. We went to the beach and jumped over waves and boogie boarded. Felt a little sad and disappointed that we didn't get to have lunch together.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Feeling extremely agitated and anxious and angry all at the same time. I'll keep it inside because I was recently told that my venting is going to get me banned, even though it's not toward anyone on the forum :(

 

[franciemarnie]

@Solara - Get it out somewhere or somehow safely. I go nuts if I keep agitation etc. inside. Course that's me. You know what's best for you. I don't mean to project my reality on other people. That was done ad nauseum growing up. I guess I am saying - I hear you.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

@franciemarnie
I don't know how to get it out! I can't tell anyone-----I can't burden them like that. I don't have anyone to talk to. I just want to disappear. I don't think anyone would notice and if they did they wouldn't care :(

 

[ill]

@Solara - what about a journal and/or notepad on the computer?

When I keep things inside, it's almost like they fester and grow worse, but a journal gives me a safe space to unburden all my feelings and usually gives me some clarity to boot.

 

[ill]

I spent all of Saturday afternoon and evening sleeping and now I feel well-rested and contented and peaceful. I'm really looking forward to going for a walk and starting my day in earnest.

 

[macca]

Have spent most of the day dissociated. Though I do dissociate at times, this was the first time I spent much of the day feeling disconnected from the world, as if I wasn't really in it. Really felt spaced out, like I was drugged or something. At one point I was triggered when my husband just couldn't cut me some slack, I guess he just couldn't understand the spaciness, and I just left the house with nothing, and walked down the road, without shoes. It burned my feet a bit, (it's really hot here), even 7 hours later my feet still hurt a bit, but I kept doing it because I felt something. I still don't know why - though I did wake up from some discomforting dreams (they weren't nightmares though). I wonder if I'm having some kind of anticipation towards my first EMDR in a few days, which I have been scared about. Don't feel anything now.

 

[franciemarnie]

@Solara - I hate that feeling when I want to disappear. When I feel I have been criticized unfairly or accused unjustly of something or completely misunderstood, I can feel unbearably nuts. And if I don't feel I have the opportunity to respond, man - I can go crazy! I used to just want to self destruct then. And I would kind of - just oblivion with drugs.

If I don't have the opportunity to say my piece, maybe the person is dead or I got fired or whatever - what worked for me was a vigorous work out, especially with a speed bag or something with resistance that I could hit or punch or kick while listening to loud angry rock music. That way I could release some of the unbearable flooding of stress hormones.

There must be some way to get it out. You know you best.

People would undoubtedly miss you. You are an original.