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Daily Check In Space

Daily Check In Space

Hi Friends, Family and Carers

Caring for loved ones living with complex mental health issues can be really challenging, and the carer's experience can often be overlooked and/or difficult to talk about day to day. We have created this space so that those feelings, challenges and accomplishments can be heard, and to promote carer's wellbeing and self-care.

To participate, here are 3 questions for your daily check in:

1) How are you feeling?

You can use a scale of 1-10 (1= really bad , 10= really good), if you would like to.

2) What is one thing you have struggled with, and one thing you have done well?

3) What is one nice thing you can do for yourself today?

You're welcome to check in daily, or how ever often you need to! Please just remember to be respectful and kind to each other as each of our experiences are so different.

Feel free to tag any carers you know in this space!

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That sounds like a great weekend @PositivePossum6

Writting a novel , how exciting, what kind of novel

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Hi @Shaz51 I am writing fiction. Not allowed to say anymore than this. 🙂

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All good @PositivePossum6 😀

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@Shaz51

I am looking forward to some sunshine, I really want to head down to the beach for a walk. But according to the Bureau of Meteorology it is going to be raining all week long down where I live in Victoria!

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We usually gets weeks of rain where I am @PositivePossum6

And it plays on our mental health a lot

Hope you do get a chance to go to the beach

We are 20 kms away from a beach here

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Hi @Shaz51, @PositivePossum6, others...
Spent the day decluttering some boxfuls. We do live in a floodzone, although it has to get pretty high up to reach our place. I've got as much as I could stacked up high after being on flood "watch and act" a couple of weeks ago... I'd much rather have less to get out of the way! Happy that I have completely emptied a couple of boxes worth today, but it's tiring work. So many micro-decisions to make on the way through.
We were going to have a take away dinner, but the local fish and chippery is flat out tonight, so there's frozen food heating up in the oven instead.

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Easy meal is a much-needed for you tonight @Smc

Hope you are able to relax a little bit tonight xxx

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@Shaz51 thanks for checking in, hope you're doing well. hotness doesn't agree with me either.

Been a super busy week, and tonight was really tempted to abuse a lot of substances (I don't usually but have family history of tendency, so don't even want to be opened to the possibility). My loved one was in a good space so I snapped out of it, thankfully.

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Feeling a 6-7

reasonably good and have had a vent with work colleagues and friends- very supportive.

Myer I struggle with empathising with my brother in law who has just started back at work after a month off due to anxiety and depression and his work has been so supportive with a plan and easing him back with only two days a week! I just feel angry that he wants to give up after all we have done. He’s not thinking about his two little girls. His wife (my dear twin sister) is struggling too. Financially he cannot quit. I’m just trying hard not to be stern or tell him off. He’s not working on his exercises or self care himself!

on a good note I have been taking some me time and focusing on my physical exercises etc enjoyed work today myself with is a plus ☺️

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Hey @Emmylou,

Just wrote back to you on another thread. It can be frustrating when a self care plan is created but not implemented. Complex mental health can be very hard to navigate both in it, and caring for someone with it. I understand your need to support your sister and the stresses she is going through too. Have you guys been able to get aby kind of support? We do have a guided service you could both access independently to help you with your journeys?

Here is the link, maybe check it out....

https://www.sane.org/referral

Sunshineandsea xx

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