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Riding a wave

Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor22 Mar 2017, 11:35 am AEDT

Riding a wave

Hi all,

@CherryBomb, @Former-Member or any other @Former-Member floating around Forum Land, will you ride a wave with me? I thought I would be fine doing something...but it turns out that the something has made my big feelings BIG and now I'm in a pickle...and there's nothing worse than a pickled turtle! I'm going to go and snuggle in my bed so I probably won't actually respond to you, but it will still super help me to know that I am not utterly alone on the wave. I don't want to tag anyone else because I don't want anyone to feel they need to respond. Thank you in advance for riding with me.

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Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:10 pm AEDT

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I will not die tonight but I am super super super super super struggling. @Former-Member can you please ride the wave with me?

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TheVorticonSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:16 pm AEDT

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Hope one of the mods gets here soon. Til then, I hear you @Phoenix_Rising and am sitting out with you on the wave.

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Unknown userMember26 Mar 2017, 9:20 pm AEDT

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im here with you too @Phoenix_Rising riding the wave no matter how big it is

@Former-Member

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Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:21 pm AEDT

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Thank you @TheVorticon. My brain is super flooded and everything within me is telling me to call it quits tonight. But I know it is a wave. I know it will pass. I choose to ride the wave. Thank you for riding with me.

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TheVorticonSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:31 pm AEDT

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Yep you're completely right, it WILL pass and I'm proud of you for sticking it out @Phoenix_Rising. Is there anything you'd like to do while riding the wave, like looking at the boats in the harbor (even they have to bob up and down as the waves reach them)? Or is it better to just chill as it gradually flows past?

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Unknown userMember26 Mar 2017, 9:34 pm AEDT

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hi @Phoenix_Rising I'm riding the wave too tonight, ive got my surfboard if thats ok. i never saw at firday night feast if anyone found your turle shell?

lj

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Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:35 pm AEDT

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I'm going to go and snuggle in my bed, under my weighted blanket with my toy turtle. I have taken some medication to help me sleep, I've talked out my muddle in a voice message to my psychologist, and I'm seeing her at 8am tomorrow which is hardly any time at all away. Thank you for riding with me @Former-Member and @TheVorticon.

At the risk of traumatizing @TheVorticon, I know the reason today is especially difficult is because of the particular time of the month that it is...and I've always told myself there is no way I was ever going to let the fact that I have my period be the factor that pushes me to suicide.

Today is nearly done, and tomorrow is a brand new day. Thank you again for riding with me.

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Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:39 pm AEDT

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@TheVorticon Once I'm snuggled in my bed, I will float on the wave and watch the clouds until I fall asleep.

@Former-Member Zoe found my shell. That was a BIG relief. I definitely need my shell to snuggle into. And now I'm off to bed...

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Unknown userMember26 Mar 2017, 9:45 pm AEDT

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phew! Glad that @Zoe7 found it! She's amazing

Hope that you sleep soundly and tomorrow is a little better @Phoenix_Rising

Glad you've had @TheVorticon and @Former-Member here iwth you tonight on the wave too!

lj

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TheVorticonSenior Contributor26 Mar 2017, 9:46 pm AEDT

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Glad lil-caterpillar and lisajane and I could hang out and help for a bit. Toy turtle sounds like a good swimmer too.

It's good that you can identify that as a contributing factor @Phoenix_Rising. Hopefully it's kind of helpful so you can be like "ok this is extra intense because <hormones> but that's a thing that fluctuates and passes so these feelings can too". Or something. Maybe. (Or maybe I'm waaay off base in which case feel free to tell me so!)
Sleep well. Hope you have a good chat with your psychologist tomorrow morning.

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