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Frustrated? Set Backs? / Plateauing & moving forward
August 03, 2024, 04:04:33 AM
It's been a long time that I've been working on myself. It's been a shorter time that I've had names for my problems. I felt good, happy even, like I was doing well and being myself. Then the days started to feel empty. I started to feel exhausted. My family has been trying to interact with me more and more. I am less and less inclined to indulge them. Culturally my problems are intersected in more of a tangled web than I want them to be. I have been less interested in everything. I am grasping at straws, reading every book & article and watching every video. I want to be well. Desperately. I often wish I could go No Contact, but I know it would cause more damage than I am ready for or able to withstand currently. I feel tired of having to explain myself constantly. So I don't explain myself anymore. I just don't know where to go from here. I'm always sad. I feel like I drag down my chosen family, they don't always understand. I feel so tired. I wonder if anyone else has felt the hurdle of continuing through a confusing plateau. It was slow to creep in but it feels so permanent. I know it's not, but that doesn't make it any easier. I feel hollow and exhausted. And that makes me feel hollowing and exhausting to everyone around me. I don't know what to say to help them help me. I know eventually this will be in the past and I will be on the other side but for today I am here, and I need help.
Please let me know if anyone has felt a similar plateau in healing & growth. Please tell me how you communicated with your community to let them be there for you. How did you identify what you needed?
Thank you for your time friend.
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New Members / Re: What's in a Name - Part 3
August 02, 2024, 01:45:09 AM
I hadn't taken much time to think about mine. When I saw the box "username", I looked out my window at the big tree outside my house. I though of all the times on walks when I find myself sitting under a big shady tree and how it feels like a loving embrace from the planet to be carefully obscured from the suns harsh rays. It felt like a nice thing to be, and I guess I hope to be like a big shady tree.