Trying makes it worse

Hi @IsAnybodyThere I wanted to reply to you and say hi,

Thanks for your suggestions, but I didn't really feel the advice to go a senior Dr applies to me and I'm not needing suggestions for new services as I find that overwhelming.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to discourage. Congrats on your first post

You are quite right. I stepped over the line a bit. Struggling with everything right now. I don't think the higher strength antidepressants my GP put me on are not working at all.

Hi all,

I'm still not sure about tagging, I'll tag ppl and if it bothers or I do it wrong,,,,lmk!

Hi everyone

I'm feeling pretty triggered lately and struggling with safety

Have been happy to call Lifeline which helped really, and was able to make a safety plan which involved support from a friend. It is a good feeling to ask for help and get it,

I know in the moment or asking I feel pretty anxious that I could be too much and be turned away

I saw my Dr this morning again, and after wards spent a lot of time huddled up on the couch,

I felt really down and like my situation was heavy and stuck.

Tomorrow I am going to give my friend my medication as a safety plan, so I do not have excess. I should have done it today but tomorrow it's organised now.

How do ppl cope with triggers ? It feels like drowning.

@wellwellwellnez @tyme @jazz @TAB @NatureLover @Scream58 @maddison

@EternalFlower

Good to hear you have a safety plan in place. Not good that we are both awake at 2am.

Triggers ... sometimes I can distract myself by keeping busy with something else. Other times I can't cope with them at all. Depends on the trigger and what else has been happening. If I'm already down and a trigger happens I spiral out of control too fast.

I'm currently working with my therapist to try and learn how to short circuit the spiral.

Take care.

Hi @TAB it's not nice to be up all night, not my preference either...

I get more depressed and anxious around interactions with family, I don't have an easy time with my parents or sisters.

I slept through the morning today and went out for a coffee now so I'm a bit anxious

Got lots of missed calls in the morning after not replying to a friend's text

Not sure how easy the weekend will be, I didn't manage to give my friend my medication or to do much

well friend was probably just checking to see if you were okay @EternalFlower ?

am going away tomorrow so wont be on here as much for a while. am driving interstate for funeral

Well that's a very sweet interaction between you two @EternalFlower and @IsAnybodyThere .

I also think a lot about the archetypal significance of our teams. I also also get the overhaul overwhelmed factor.

Borrowing and expanding a bit from the "7 habits of highly effective people" book from back in the day. There's a time to get a new saw, a time to sharpen the one you have and another other time to keep on sawing.

Hi @TAB hope u are OK and sorry for Ur loss..

My friend has been checking on me and tonight we had a chat which was helpful.

I live alone and don't have so much support or family or anything so it was a nice change to get some support.