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Not Coping

Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor08 Nov 2022, 6:51 pm AEDT

Not Coping

Hey everyone how are you all?

@RiverSeal @Shaz51 @NatureLover @tyme @Former-Member @Eve7 @Former-Member @amber22 @Jynx @FloatingFeather

I'm not doing great at all today. I'm feeling down. I also keep beating myself up for everything and feel like I'm just failing. I need a break from everything. It's getting so hard that I don't know how to keep going anymore especially since I can't talk to anyone around me as they are leaving me or don't understand.

Hope you don’t mind me reaching out I just really need a chat and though I could come on here and vent and talk for a bit.

Thank you

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creative_writerSenior Contributor10 Mar 2024, 3:26 pm AEDT

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Hi @Birdofparadise8 🙂

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RiverSealModerator10 Mar 2024, 3:26 pm AEDT

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I interrupt intrusive thoughts when they are intense and can come at any time and passive to just having thoughts in the back of my mind most of the time. What do you think @Birdofparadise8? RiverSeal

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor10 Mar 2024, 3:28 pm AEDT

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Hi @creative_writer

How are you?

@RiverSeal would thinking I'm a bad person and deserving to die be an intrusive thought then?

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RiverSealModerator10 Mar 2024, 3:31 pm AEDT

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I think it's about how you experience the thought rather than the content which makes it an intrusive or passive thought @Birdofparadise8. RiverSeal

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor10 Mar 2024, 3:35 pm AEDT

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Oh okay. I don't know. I was just writing a message you nowhere about how I've felt like a bad person, and it started coming up in my mind that I'm a bad person who deserves to die @RiverSeal

I am safe, by the way.

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creative_writerSenior Contributor10 Mar 2024, 3:41 pm AEDT

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@Birdofparadise8, better than yesterday, not great. Sending you hugs 💖🫂

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor10 Mar 2024, 3:42 pm AEDT

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I'm sorry @creative_writer

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RiverSealModerator10 Mar 2024, 3:45 pm AEDT

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That sounds like an intrusive thought to me @Birdofparadise8 and these are not the truth they are just our minds working overtime and being influenced by our emotions. You don't have to believe every thought you have as it doesn't mean that it's a fact or how other people see you. RiverSeal

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor10 Mar 2024, 3:47 pm AEDT

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Mmm, that thought can be quite real at times @RiverSeal

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RiverSealModerator10 Mar 2024, 3:54 pm AEDT

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I get that they feel real, but it doesn't make it so @Birdofparadise8. It has taken me a lot to be able to see things in this way and I believe you have the resilience and motivation to change the way you think about things too. RiverSeal

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