I Am

Started by Bach, August 12, 2024, 12:38:23 AM

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Hope67

Hi Bach,
I am also sending good thoughts your way.  Sending you a hug as well  :hug:
I hope that the blustery cold winds will calm soon.
Hope

Bach

I'm so tired of myself.  Why can't I just be the person I want to be?

Chart


sanmagic7

i hear you, bach.  love and hugs :hug:

Hope67


Bach

I was very depressed for about 5 months.  Then I started feeling better around mid-December and I was really conscious of and grateful for getting a break from my intrusive death-wishing thoughts.  But in the last few days, without much of anything external changing, those thoughts have come back strong and it's painful again to be conscious.  I don't know why or how to fix it.  Unless it really is because of the swimming pool being closed.  I'm not sure if the lift in my mood coincided with when I started going to the pool regularly, but it may have.  I suppose I could try doing some other kind of exercise until the pool reopens, but it's really hard because swimming is the only thing that doesn't hurt. 

Chart

I'm sorry you're feeling those intense feelings again, Bach. The link with exercise seems pretty indicative. This might be a short-term substitute until the pool reopens: Progressive muscle relaxation. It's only fifteen minutes (and I love his light German accent :-)
https://youtu.be/jqqqZDSojoQ?si=5QexxP2J4xRdW2Ah
If it's not your thing feel free ti ignore, but I hope it might help. It's helping me a lot.
 :hug:

Bach

I functioned very well today despite feeling like garbage. That's something to take hope from and build on.

NarcKiddo


SenseOrgan

Hi Bach, just barging in here... Functioning well despite feeling garbage feels a bit like magic, doesn't it? I've had a few of those days too here and there. It's really empowering that feeling like garbage does not have the last say in everything!  :cheer:

Bach

Quote from: SenseOrgan on February 07, 2025, 08:18:53 AMHi Bach, just barging in here... Functioning well despite feeling garbage feels a bit like magic, doesn't it? I've had a few of those days too here and there. It's really empowering that feeling like garbage does not have the last say in everything!  :cheer:

It does feel like magic!  If I could do that every day, I'd really have something going on here.

sanmagic7

bach, if it doesn't happen every day, i hope that magic returns at least once in a while, and then more and more often.  if it helps, it helps, and there's nothing wrong w/ that at all.  here's to magic in our lives!  love and hugs :hug:

Bach

The noise in my head is really loud these days.  I have so much trouble doing anything above the very bare minimum that my living with and having responsibilities to another human requires of me.  I can't seem to do much to help myself.  Can't get out of freeze.  I think that I've been in a semi-freeze state for most of my life, and that the floods froze me up completely.  I worry that it's for life, just the way I am now.  Nothing gets me out of it anymore, not even cannabis.


Blueberry

Hi Bach :wave:

I'm sorry you have such a loud noise in your head! And I'm sorry you're struggling on account. I don't feel I have anything helpful to say but I smiled internally when I saw you'd been on and posted.

 :hug:  :hug:

NarcKiddo