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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.
No, I don't want you to be crying as well @creative_writer.
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@Birdofparadise8, it’s okay. Crying is healthy, isn’t it?
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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor
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But it means you're sad.
I don't want you to be sad, @creative_writer. You don't deserve to as I do.
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@Birdofparadise8, many of us grow up thinking sadness or crying is not good. This leads to denial of powerful emotions and suppression. Suppression can lead to anxiety and depressive symptoms. Sometimes we need to feel what we need to feel and not judge it. By doing that, the emotion often feels less intense too. Life is complex, there is no happiness without sadness or sadness without happiness. Sadness and crying is adaptive in a way, it signals to others we need help, people were made to support each other through the good and bad. You can’t be happy all the time, it’s not humanely possible. Likewise, it may feel like sadness is lasting forever, but it does lift, I’m sure you’ve had moments of happiness previously.
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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor
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It does come periodically the happiness, but there is only a very small amount and I feel it fading away every day getting smaller by the minute.
How is your migraine @creative_writer?
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creative_writerSenior Contributor
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@Birdofparadise8, hold onto the hope that one day it’ll last.
Migraine is feeling better, these glasses are making things more tolerable. Though can’t really shut off my mind right now, I wish I could rest but I can’t.
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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor
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Yeah that would be hard @creative_writer
Have you taken any pain meds for it?
I hope you can at least try and get some rest tonight.
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