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Hi @Appleblossom,

Congrats on finishing your course, that must have been very interesting and hope you enjoy your well deserved break from mental health issues, it's very wise of you to maintain a healthy balance between your hobbies, interests, self-care and wanting to help others.

Enjoy and talk soon 🙂

Lunar

@Appleblossom, Well done on your course. Go and hug some zoo animals for yourself and for us. I agree with the Thank you for all on this forum and sharing our coping methods, It has helped me heaps too.

Hope you have a great day at the zoo. 🙂

Well done with your course @Appleblossom

We like you here so please don't leave - take a break if necessary and get your life evened out

I don't know about obsessing - it's one of those tricky to define things - when I was studying I found I would be totally interested in what I was doing - and still feel that way - but of course I think about other things now

All the best though

Dec

Thank you for warmth. I dont plan to go, but I am re-orienting my priority my use of the forum. This was the most important thing for most of my time til now. I see so much good support for others and honest and self aware posting. Also many people who are still at the complete end of their tether. From my silly one lady mission and viewpoint, to positively effect attitudes to mental health and mental illness, I will never stray. I know I am not always be positive, but my intention was also through the darker stories there can be know-how and clarity ...

Yes I dont think I should have it front & centre for a while. So I dont feel my immediate "rescue" mode triggered. Rescue the other and rescue the self ...

Not sure how things will go .. but I would only withdraw partially.

I have a few commitments coming up .. in training for the conservation teaching role ... Yay I dont have those messages spilling into my positing here ... I can do it where it will reach most people within the umbrella of an organisation. I also am planning for minimal self-revelation there.

Though it did come up in one task ... I looked straight in the eye at the young eager enthusiastic employed teacher .. and said "animals are not more important than humans" ... she was right onto the basis of my query .. and told me about a wonderful organisation called GORILLA DOCTORS.that also practise a "ONE HEALTH" approach where for eg in Africa the orangatans health and the various aspects of the ecosystem including the humans are treated by doctors in an integrated way. 1) Many bugs are transmitted and pathological for humans & animals. Management of scarce resources is important, but complex in the mining say ... of COLTAN ... for mobile phones... where the livelihoods of 12 year old human children are effected, becasue they eat better when they mine ... consequences can be complex ... westerners cant pontificate in other economies, but it is not accurate to say there not flow-ons in behaviour from one part of the globe to another. There is plenty of coltan in OZ, but too expensive to mine .. and most parents here would not want their 12 years olds working that way.

Hi @Appleblossom

I just went onto the site and was scrolling down and found a familiar name. Good on you for the course you did, and for being there soooo much for others. You have responded to all of my posts, so Thank You, for being there for OTHERS.

You say you are volunteering at a zoo.... I was going to share my Zoo Experience with you, but then freaked out that you didn't mean a real zoo, and don't have the mental capacity to scroll through your messages to see!!! After all that's been going on in the world....

Anyway.... Yesterday my family were in our major city at the zoo. I had had injections in my back for pain on Monday, so we were in the big smoke. I paid extra for each of us to hand feed a giraffe. It was an amazing moment in time, as I looked into it's eye, and it mine. It made all the fighting with MI worthwhile.

I just wanted to share that with you. Enjouy your music, and your zoo encounters. Big hugs, Whim x