Not Coping

Yes I know that only have fingers crossed that I get it @outlander

Yes my dad has a blood pressure med for anxiety when he was worried about covid.

It's a bit of a cycle hey @Jynx

It's made me so tired today, so I hope I can sleep better tonight if the people near me are quiet. They have music going and talking very loudly.

What do you do when you can't sleep? Other than the power-downs.

@Birdofparadise8 oh dang, do you often have noisy neighbours?

I use white noise - helps to quiet my brain a lil, as well as drowning out my tinnitus. That could be helpful for you if you often have noisy neighbours too!

Also have this lil story in my brain. It's like a fun lil adventure with characters and stuff. So like, one thing that prevents me sleeping is when I'm too busy thinking about stuff I'm stressed (or excited) about. So I catch myself, and pull my focus back to the little story instead. Kinda like a more complex version of counting sheep I guess? lol. And yeah it means instead of letting anxiety-brain spiral outta control, I am shifting focus to something that is not stressful, and often leads me into dreaming.

Not often, it's not the people near me. They are over the hall and to the left @Jynx

They are just that loud.

I'm trying to let myself stay awake till I'm really tired, and hope that helps.

Can I ask what the adventure is in a simple way so you don't have to explain the whole thing?

@Birdofparadise8 hmm... As brief as possible it's a fantasy themed adventure, with a main character (who is basically me) and their three friends travelling to different dimensions (usually its the universe of whatever tv show or video game I'm into at the time) and getting up to all sorts of mischief and mayhem .

I'm off for tonight, I hope you get some decent sleepies @Birdofparadise8 and same to you @outlander. I'll see ya real soon I'm sure. 💜😁

Sounds nice @Jynx

Thank you. I hope you do too.

Have a good night.

Hi @outlander @Jynx @creative_writer @tyme @Shaz51 @Bow @amber22 @fluffylight @Jynx

How is everyone today? I hope you're all well.

I had my baseline for the clinical trial, and if it's all good, I will start either the medication or placebo next week.

Hello @Birdofparadise8 , @Jynx , @outlander , @creative_writer , @tyme

I see my kidney specialist twice this month

Mr shaz has 2 new appointments with his new MH team next week

Blood tests to be done

My mum has influenza in hospital

My MIL had a sunspot removed, 5 stichers

Hey lovelies 😊

How you feeling about starting the meds @Birdofparadise8 ?

Wow @Shaz51 so much going on! I hope you get sometime to yourself as well. And big fingers crossed for a speedy recovery for your mums 💜

Thank 😊 you @Jynx

Had the day off today catching up with everything

Feeling very tired now