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Faith-and-hope, we met on my 'Messed Up' thread. You've struggled a lot. Just wondering of you ever do get stuck on the Crying Phase and what you do to stop it. And, where do you get the energy to stop sinking into it? Guess you have your young adults at home as a motivator. I live on my own. Just wondering. Trying to use forums more and you popped up. Hope you don't mind. 🙂

Hi everyone. 😀💟👋

Catch up soon, maybe later.
Go go go with my girl. Help! 😮😯😀

Hi @mandy84 - Nice to see you again, glad you're posting! How are you doing?
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Hi @mandy84 .... so glad you have come back to us .... and I hope the forums are a real support for you as they have been for me. Not much has changed for us since you were here last, because my WH is still in his alternate universe .... but I can tell you a few things about coping.

First of all, especially living on your own, you really, really, really need to put structure into your day .... like "have-to"'s .....

These things can be -

Mealtimes - give yourself a two-hour span of its not working too well for you .... like breakfast between 8 - 10am .... lunch between 12 - 2pm .... dinner between 6 - 8pm ..... and a meal means a cupful of something at least semi-nutritious.

Shower - or variation of ..... once a day preferably, or once in 48 hrs if 24 hrs is too hard.

Food shopping every three days Mon to Sat, rest day on Sunday.

Run raids on the housekeeping, especially if you are struggling to get out of bed.

Two days pyjama days max, after that you have to get dressed in something and at least sit on the couch.

Try to socialise in some way once a week, above and beyond your shopping days.

Try to speak to someone on the phone twice a week .... including getting Centrelink or whatever sorted .... doesn't matter, but y'gotta break out of the isolation.

Try to go for a walk twice a week, even if it's 20 laps of the back yard .... but a beach walk is preferable .... sun, sand, surf ... all healing things .... sound of the gulls, smell of the salt, push of the wind, lap of the waves .... engaging the senses.

These things have a healing effect over the constant crying. They start to let the sun back in by default .... using your mind, your body, having to present some sort of face to the world ......

Hugs @mandy84 ...... 🤗

Keep swimmin' Hon ..... 🐠🐠🐠💕

Good morning everyone 😊

Hope everyone's day starts off well. It's a beautiful morning again here. There's a change coming in a couple of days and it won't be this nice for much longer so I'm enjoying it while I can.

Hope you all have a good one 🌞

Good morning @Former-Member ☺ I found your story about the dog - I too enjoy stumbling across your little adventures and find myself smiling when I read them. How are you this morning? Hope it's a nice day ahead for you ❤