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creative_writerSenior Contributor
I'm feeling very overwhelmed with the amount of work I need to do, and yet, I'm window shopping tea online because I can't get myself to work on my assignments. I feel like my mind is jumping from one thing to another. i just don't want to do what I did last semester, leaving assignments at the last moment was very stressful. I feel like a failure. I get a surge of intrusive thoughts when I study
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tymeModerator
Do you think reaching out to a helpline will be beneficial @creative_writer ?
We are sitting with you. I'm here if you need a chat.
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tymeModerator
Take care @creative_writer . I'll catch you with you another time.
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JynxModerator
Heya @creative_writer just catching up on everything. Wanted to say hi as well, see how your weekend is going 😊
Also I have thoughts! (But then, when don't I? lol)
@creative_writer wrote:
@tyme I am feeling better today, still dsregulated. I have been doing a lot of reflection today, I don't even know why I stayed with my therapist for the full 4 years.
I've been told my emotions are too much and not appropriate for situations my entire life. I've tried so hard to make my emotions seem normal, but can't
On the first point, I just wanted to express some reassurance, because it can be soooo easy to agonise over wondering why - why did I stick with a psych who was invalidating for four years? Why did I think that that was ok? Why did I waste all that time? Etc etc
We're experiential creatures - without having experienced a psych who makes you feel valid and understood, how are you to know that this isn't just the stock standard experience of psychotherapy? We're also lead to believe that psychs are the experts and thus they know better than we do about our minds (such a harmful stereotype). In other words, there's all sorts of reasons why you might have stayed, and none of them are indicators of personal failings.
The second part I quoted up there.... just, holy crap MOOD. But I don't think you've blown anything out of proportion hun. In fact I think you're just.... like me. I had a psych very helpfully explain to me that I have a VERY BIG emotional range, which means my lows are lower, highs are higher, and I have a seemingly out-of-proportional emotional reactivity - i.e. my threshold is lower so I cry/scream/jump for joy a lot quicker over smaller triggers. It sucks that it's most noticeable when my mood is low. Like no one has any issue when I get so excited I scream a lil bit, but my excitement is just cos they have my fav flavour of energy drink in stock. Is that inappropriate? Just sayin..
Also side rant - just who gets to decide that ANY level of human emotion is INAPPROPRIATE...? Sounds a lot like oppression to me....
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JynxModerator
@creative_writer yeah that's it, a lack of understanding. It just sucks when the lack of understanding leads to things like being told my super normal (for me) and largely harmless behaviour is deemed 'inappropriate'.
Slow process or not, kudos is still owed!! Really proud of you taking those steps outside your comfort zone!! Progress is progress regardless of pace 😊
Yeah sounds like maybe it's needed! I know you're hesitant with PRN... well actually I think 'cautious' is the more apt word here, and understandably so! Better caution than recklessness when we're talking about our neurochems. But also, if it is the difference between functioning and not functioning, definitely worth it imo!
Sorry to hear the SI is coming in hot n heavy, that's rough. Glad you're safe for now hun, let us know if that changes! Anything about the SI that is worth unpacking or chatting about?
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JynxModerator
@creative_writer jus sayin 😉
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