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Achy here too...
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#992
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Bored and Very hungry
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#993
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Not been doing good recently since the lockdown been furloughed in work and still haven't gone back but some of the other people have gone back.... just want to get back into a routine and help my mental state abit the good thing is i know when i'm on a downward spiral so i can least try to combat when i'm like this... one thing which helped before this pandemic/lockdown began was indoor climbing/bouldering it really helped with my mental state i've only been doing it since January 2019 but in that time i don't think i've felt as bad with my mind but since the lockdown i haven't been able to go to the climbing center my mood/mental state has changed for the worst i can imagine alot of people will feel the same though...
Hopefully i'll get back to climbing soon as the climbing center is back open but totally under new rules and its by appointment too i really need to get back there soon... Its my birthday in a few days so i'm going to treat myself and spend abit of money on myself i haven't done that for a few years, i did a clothes sort out when i was in lockdown and most of my clothes don't fit me anymore so i kinda need some new clothes so gonna have some retail therapy and help lift my mood if i can! |
#994
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Retail therapy sounds good T, I hope you feel better soon.
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#996
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Well i'm finally back in work which is a good thing... still need to clothes shop still wary of it with the changes involved....
need to get back to climbing which i haven't done due to being furloughed but once i'm up and running then i'll be back! |
#997
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^ Glad you're back in work again.
Good luck with the clothes shopping but I understand your wariness, I'm not ready to brave shops yet. Climbing the stairs is enough of a challenge for me |
#998
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Still nothing has changed still haven't been climbing and at the mo don't think i'd want to with the spike in covid cases by here still haven't been clothes shopping and again don't think i'd want too.... well and truely stuck in a rut!
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#999
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I don't blame you for not wanting to go out and do those things, nothing feels safe any more.
Tomorrow I have to travel home by train for a hospital appointment so feeling very anxious, not helped by having to stop beta blockers yesterday in preparation for the tests. Also worried about what will show up, if I need an operation it will be at the hospital my dad died in. |
#1000
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Good luck Azalea, hope it went well x
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#1002
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Hope it went well.
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#1003
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Feeling generally rubbish. I have had social anxiety for 17 years starting from my late teens. I feel iike I am at an impasse in my life. Trying something new is pointless as I always fail at it. I am not intelligent and no one respects me at work. I am unable to compartmentalise my life, that is to say when I am feeling sad in one area if my life be it with a friend or in the workplace,it feeds into my entire being. I have only ever had three proper jobs in my life and in all of them I failed because I end up bullied and isolated from my peers because of my anxiety. I want to do well in my job so I listen to the people who train me, try to be friendly in my own way, try to ask different people for help, avoid rocking the boat and still I end up in the same situation as before. Its to the point where I don't feel normal, I feel embarrassed to be the shy loser all the time. Even when I use techniques to appear friendly and confident people can still see through it and treat me as if I'm pathetic or incapable. I notice that I have very few happy or positive days, I am always low or negative in mood. I have had so much cbt before but while I use the techniques it never lasts for long. I had intensive cbt last year and recently worked with able futures since lockdown but the breakthroughs I have are always brief. I wake up and just want to stay in bed for the rest of the day. I just have no motivation. I blame myself for the way people treat me, I should be stronger and not so soft then I would be a better person and I would not be bullied so much. People have said this to me even telling me that I would live a good life if I weren't so soft. My social anxiety has ruined my life.
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#1004
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^I wish I knew what to say, but try not to blame yourself for the way people treat you.
I have epically ****ed up my life, so I'm feeling shit. |
#1005
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Introspheric87, I can relate to everything you are saying, I have always been bullied in jobs due to being too shy and awkward too and I lack intelligence. I never last long in jobs (longest was a year) I really hope you get back to your cbt therapy and you can get help from that. I know how it is to not fit in with life.
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#1006
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^That's good advice. Finding niceish colleagues and a reasonableish boss does make a huge difference. Makes the whole work thing a lot more bearable. Of course you often have no way of knowing ahead of time. I do think so much unhappiness can be caused by people being arseholes at work, because you can't escape until you find a new job.
Yeah, I'm all right. In a way, instead of plodding on, waiting to magically morph into a superwoman or for the world to get more sane (which is clearly not going to happen) before anything can improve, I've got something to actually do, i.e. work on the deep recesses of my soul lol. While also earning money. And then see if I can get ADHD diagnosis and if I can get medical aid that can turn me into a more functional and focused human. |
#1007
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The worst bit was going into a recovery ward for half an hour, some of the nurses were talking about covid and I had to take my mask off for a few mins. The hospital featured on the news that night too, glad it was after my appointment and not before! The results take 3 weeks so will have to see what they show, hopefully nothing too urgent. |
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I work in human resources supporting healthcare recruitment. I think my problem comes down to anxiety and trying too hard to fit in. No one wants to talk to a fake and after nearly a year into my current role I feel isolated and undervalued. Being able to work from home helps but when I have to be in the office that's when my anxiety flares up. I could be feeling fine and thinking positive thoughts but my body language shows my tenseness and hidden anxiety and people reject me. This is why I blame myself for the situation I am in. People start talking to me then rush off in the middle of the conversation or start smirking when I try to say something in a meeting or add an opinion. You read things in self-help books about communication being 90% body language and that people mirror other speakers. I notice people mimicking me when I talk or being jumpy around me more often. Therefore I feel like it must be my fault because of my anxiety. |
#1009
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Today which was a day off work I was thinking about how i don't fit in at any workplace that I have worked at. I currently work in housekeeping at a nursing home and honestly when it gets to lunchtime I try to talk to my colleagues and there are times when colleagues will blatantly ignore me. This sounds silly but there is a new colleague there that has just started and she has added a few of my colleagues to her friends list but not me. Not sure what this is all about. I enjoy the job that I do though which is good.
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#1010
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I am struck by a sense of the absurd. I am having a raging midlife crisis, but at the same time I feel I have been regressing over the past few years into my much younger self. I am doing the young gay person things (acceptance, a label, coming out) while also having a midlife crisis and being an older generation gay. So I am having my dark night of the soul, where I realise toxic shame has been running my entire life. And I am doing so while still living at home as an ageing adolescent. Can't I have my midlife crisis in peace, in my own home? Not with the way I've been running my life, apparently. (And not helped by the structural changes of the 21st century.) I feel very weird about everything. The sense of the absurd is strong.
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#1011
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When you are as much of a disaster at life as I am, over time, you acquire more things that become your biggest regret and that move other things down the list. So here we are for the top few:
1 a) You are totally gay, you buffoon. Accept it and move on to b) you have toxic shame as a result of your adolescent experience. You need to start dealing with it or it will ruin your life. Knowing about the toxic shame is the most important thing. 2) Yes, still the not buying a home when they were affordable even for chumps like me. And I'm not sure about the ranking of some of the others. |
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Okay, no, I'm back to the not getting the job-finances-home stuff sorted in a timely fashion. That would have left room for freedom of action. Feeling in charge of one's own life. Things could have followed on from there. Feeling trapped in your 30s is bad.
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#1013
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^^ Realising that you have toxic shame and starting to let go of it is really important I think.
I wonder if you're putting too much pressure on yourself to sort out all the big things that are making you feel stuck immediately? Maybe starting with some much smaller steps could be a way of feeling you're making progress without getting overwhelmed by the enormity of it all? |
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Hah ha I wasn't expecting an answer to my moaning! I'm moaning I didn't sort it all out before. Bah. I just got knocked over one more time, darn it and didn't recover because of the dreaded Avoidance and feeling hopeless for a few years. Things went Awry. I super regret it. Now I'm just unmotivated. Which is silly. You are of course correct about the smaller steps. That's what I did back in my mid 30s. Its' the only way, really. I should have never let my savings run low.
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#1015
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I wish I had this guys social skills
https://www.youtube.com/c/KurtCaz it's a good example of a person having random encounters with complete strangers. in fact anyone who is that good at making connections, it seems to come naturally to a lot of people this sort of social skill. even a base level social skill. every youtuber I watch seems to be adept in a way that I am not, watching their interactions with other people unplanned spontaneous conversation, most people just know what to say when plonked into unfamiliar circumstances and I end up saying something stupid and offputting by comparison. it's cringeworthy how some conversations put me at odds with some people at my age. I don't hate people because of that. it seems a petty thing to hate someone for all things considered. it's just annoying because I have tried very very hard in the past and I always done my best to try and not put people off. every time I think about my own interactions all I remember is the failures I am making in conversation to maintain it and have it go the way it needs to go so the other person is comfortable with carrying on the conversation. I cringe when I look back at some of my interactions, it's embarrassing especially as an adult. |
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As I rapidly approach 40, have ballooned in weight and sleeping a minimum of 9 hours a day (more is better), I've started to notice how flipping tired my body is
My knees ache, there's weird tendons in my legs that twinge for no real reason, my feet throb. I have weird blotches, marks and spots in bizarre places Mentally, I'm the happiest I've been, but physically my body is ready to retire í*¾í´£ |
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Could be better, could be worse.
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#1018
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Ugh, my motivation is so low since hitting 40. I always either went through phases where I felt I was moving forward in some small way to finally getting somewhere, or doing things/learning things just for fun. I know I need to get out and finally become myself, but I'm finding it very hard. I feel very fragile and irritated 60% of the time. I know it's just putting one foot in front of the other when I'm in this state.
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Sorry to hear your having problems cavewoman
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I know that unofficially there's the concept of taking a Mental Health Day off work (so basically a sick day that when you feel you can't face work that day, due to depression or anxiety or whatever) but right now I could do with a Mental Health Month off. I feel so overwhelmed at work, because since the New Year I've been moved jobs and I'm trying to learn a much more complicated job than I did before (for no extra pay, I should also add). I can't even talk and joke around with my one close pal in work as much anymore too, because she's in the same boat as me, and I don't want to distract her because I knew she's up to her eyes in the new job too.
I think normally I'd be able to cope if it was just this alone, but I'm already not in a good headspace, coming off the back of a rubbish 2021 with me having the two punch of my relationship ending and then my Dad getting diagnosed with a serious illness. Plus the whole enforced lack of communication with the outside world for the past 2 years (been working from home for 2 years come March) seems to have reverted me back to a hermit state, so I feel like in a particularly low ebb at the moment. On top of all that, I've noticed that I seem to have become a beacon again for people looking for someone to vent to. I don't mean this to sound cold or horrible, but since my relationship ended I feel like life has replaced the void with random people who want to come to me for help, or advice or a place to vent or talk. I try to be nice and listen and help these people, but right now I feel like I'm not strong enough to take on their problems on top of my own. I already cancelled on a catch-up coffee with someone today because I knew that I'd probably spend most of the catch-up listening to them and trying to be shoulder to lean on. I feel like such a bad friend, but I just can't hack it the now. I just want to hideaway for a month, and not deal with anyone apart from the reception staff at the gym (the gym is my one release from all this - thankfully recently I've found my motivation to go again). But going off sick for a month is just not realistic: my work wouldn't let me just disappear for a month, no questions asked, as I'd be getting chased every other day by work, getting asked what I'm doing to make myself better and how soon will I be back to work, and yadda yadda yadda. The thought of that alone makes me feel even more stressed for it to be worth it. Sorry, this is just a vent again. Right now I just feel like I want to quit my job and give up any hope of a future. But I know I won't, and I'll get up tomorrow and keep going. By by god it feels particularly hard to do at the moment. |