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Hello @ChantillyLace and welcome to the forums. Sorry to hear that you have some big stresses happening in your life at the moment.

Please know that you are not alone and we are here to support you. Always happy to chat if you want to 😊

You can never have enough glitter ✨️

Hi @MissGremlin

I'd love to have a chat with you ☺️

How do we do that on here?

@ChantillyLace same as we are doing now 😊.

What's your plans for today? I just had a couple of stressful phone calls to make so now I'm trying to relax by watching a TV show and doing some colouring. Apart from the glitter and make up is there other things that you enjoy doing?

I have an ultrasound in just over an hour to see if my gallbladder is the cause of the pain that took me up to the ER yesterday afternoon. Apart from that, no plans...

When I have the energy I go out in my garden and potter around. I'm glad the hot weather is easing up so I can put more seedlings out in the garden beds. Or I stumble upon new hyper fixations and waste a bunch of money on that until I get sick of it lol

How about you? What do you like to do in your spare time?

@ChantillyLace i hope the ultrasound goes well and they can find the cause of the pain.

Gardening is good. Yes I'm very glad we have a bit of cooler weather at the moment, that heat we had was horrible.

I enjoy doing crafts, colouring, painting, diamond art, origami, cross stitch, crochet, knitting etc. I also enjoy listening to music and going for nature walks.

I'm just waiting to see the doctor for the results now.

Gardening is very relaxing and it's so easy to lose track of time when you're out doing it.

Do you have a particular craft that you do regularly? I don't have the attention span to stick to any one thing for too long because I stop getting the dopamine from it after a few days and I lose interest. Sometimes I'll pick it up again but never long term because the same thing happens.

My anxiety has been terrible lately (triggering psychosis symptoms again) since my other half started FIFO again and I have abandonment issues so I feel like a little kid that's been left alone and it's so hard to feel okay on my own.

Do you know of any useful strategies that I could maybe try to help with those feelings?

Hi @ChantillyLace welcome to the SANE forums!

I too have Autism and have very much struggled with social skills throughout almost my whole life. I hope you’ll enjoy your time here and can also connect with many like minded individuals like us. 😊

How are you doing today? Any plans for the rest of today and/or throughout this whole week? 😊

@ChantillyLace hope you got the results.

Colouring is my go to but I struggle to focus sometimes so I bounce from activity to activity. I can do something for a few weeks then not do it for months or even years.

Can relate to anxiety being terrible lately. That sounds hard not having your partner with you and feeling so alone. I know it's not the same as in real life but know that you aren't alone here.

Does music help or having the TV on even if it's just in the background? For me I'm always alone so I often struggle if I have someone here cos it's very anxiety provoking and overwhelming. Otherwise I'd just suggest distractions to keep your mind busy, you have gardening which is great. Do you have any pets?