Mental Health Support
Related: About this forumi was posting something so depressing --then the internet went out
kind of a non suicide -suicide note ... a word salad of tears and anger X loneliness and mental pain mixed with physical pain .
Its times like these that keep me alive to die another day ( sorry James Bond title )
shit it was a good one too about calling a list of so called therapists twice and getting no call backs then my wife calling them in her cheery non desperate voice and I bet she gets called back from everyone one of them so she can think I'm more of a failure for being so weak and sick .......oh well god night somehow and may the net not crash in our times of need .
Do you sometimes feel you have all the answers but don't listen to them ?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I do, however, know that I sometimes way over-think matters and that sometimes when I do it's counterproductive.
Sometimes we really do have to take a break, let it go, take a nap, distract toward the things that are good in life.
They are there, always, but we don't always allow ourselves to see them.
hunter
(38,953 posts)Whenever a glitch eats a post in progress, especially a long one, I think "maybe this wasn't meant to be." Sometimes I'll rewrite it, sometimes not.
If I had my radar on for "all the answers" I'd go crazy. My head is full of answers, not all of them good answers.
When I'm feeling overwhelmed I back off and live in the moment.
Many of my problem are a consequence of OCD. I can't stop thinking about something, I can't stop doing something. If that's a positive thing it's not so bad, it can actually be a benefit. If it's a negative or inconsequential thing my life gets a lot worse.
I take meds to deal with the worst but I also practice "living in the moment" or just "being." It's not a formal meditation of any kind, just a focus on where I am, not where I'm going, or where I've been. Here I am, breathing, alive. That's a pretty good place to be.
olddots
(10,237 posts)what kind of sign and from where or who -I don't know but its like comic timing .
ranting has saved many lives and pissed off many people in range of the rants but sometimes it's all we got.
My mantra of " you don't want to die , you want to start living " has served me well for 50 years
what scares me is that it will be outshouted someday .
hunter
(38,953 posts)Most especially, don't be mean to yourself.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)That film actually cheers me up every time I see it . what a cast what a concept =about 40 years ahead of it's time
long live Billy & the Beaters along with everyone involved with that film.