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Not Coping

Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Ah, yes, I just love I understand what you're saying.

Will you come off it at all today @Former-Member?

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ArraDreamingSenior Contributor

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I went to tafe to study for what I did now I did a landscaping apprenticeship but it took me a year longer then everyone else @Birdofparadise8 I hated tafe I hated it with every fiber of my being
i copied what others would be doing most of the time and would spent a lot of time *not* in the class, watching the Simpsons on my phone in the library
I really struggled like so bad

I think that was around when my mh was at its worst @Birdofparadise8
I am considering doing a short course but I’m not sure

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ArraDreamingSenior Contributor

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even when I was at school in high school, I did nothing ever lol 😂

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Now that you are older, you might understand more.

Watching TV in the library probably wouldn't have helped, and copying the others either. You should ask for help from the teachers. @ArraDreaming

Yeah, a short course sounds good.

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ArraDreamingSenior Contributor

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Therapeutic Horticulture maybe

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Cool @ArraDreaming

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ArraDreamingSenior Contributor

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Yeah made some poor choices…. I can say that now at the time just did what I could to get through @Birdofparadise8

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Unknown userMember

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Yes I’ll come off it in about 10-15 mins @Birdofparadise8 🙌🏻🙂

I’m working my chest as we chat, trying to take over from the vent - it will reduce its ‘effort’ as I start to increase my own breathing; this is where pressure is integral: the vent reduces its pressure but still delivers the same volume and rate, as I transition to ‘taking over’ my own breathing. I have custom set these settings myself, because weaning off ventilators is usually a specialist action handled by a anaesthesiologist.
My vents cost $10,000 each, and I have to have two at all times, just in case one fails (one failed at 2:30am last Friday morning, and so I needed to transition to the other one). They need to be replaced each 5 years.
it’s expensive to have critical breathing problems - these are not covered by Medicare or other govt subsidy. Unfortunately. I could by myself a very fancy Mercedes with the money I have already spent on keeping myself breathing over the years, hehe! 😉🙌🏻🌺

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ArraDreamingSenior Contributor

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I’m glad you are still doing what you want to do and we’re not held back by their expectations of you

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Thank you @ArraDreaming

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