Flower back & starting over

@Former-Member xx

what kind of bird have you got and what`s his/ her name xx

Hello @Former-Member

Glad you got some drawing done and played with your bird 🙂

I am grateful for you gratitude, and you may not realize it but your gratitude helps me through my own darkness.

Thank-you for being you, for being real and for caring

Good morning @Niqueeta1 @Faith-and-Hope @Sahara @BlueBay @outlander @Zoe7 @Shaz51@eth

Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a community in the real world? Where we meet for coffee and hold rallies to show people we are equal, to stamp out the stigma and show the world, we are part of you instead of hiding in an anonymous forum. Don't get me wrong, the forum is great, but why do we have to hide? We are no different to other people. We are a much larger minority than physically disabled people, LGBTI, ... as we come from all walks of life and all sorts of majority and minority groups, so why is it so difficult to stamp out stigma? I am yet to read & watch "One flew over the cuckoos nest" to see what other people think when I talk about being in hospital - which was a private hospital with a private room. People were shocked (positively) to see the photos I took of the facilities in the hospital. I thought showing pictures I took myself and being there to explain what we did in each room, was more helpful than telling them to go on a website, which they wouldn't have done anyway.

@Faith-and-HopeI loved that picture you sent when I was on bed island. I kept thinking how beautiful it would be to be floating on a sea of flowers like in the picture. Thank you also for all the tips to do little chores when off bed island. I managed some of them yesterday.

@Former-MemberI missed the Friday Feast, was probably tucked away in bed, but it sounds like you had heaps of fun.

@Shaz51I have a parrot, let's name her Polly as I don't want to share her name.

It is 7:30am and I feel exhausted. Bed island is calling loud and clear. But I will try to stay strong today. I think I have identified the trigger for my trip to bed island, it is always a combination of things, but the major factor will be a flashback, that tops everything else off and makes me literally immobile. Freeze is my main problem when it comes to flashbacks.

Hope you all get some good moments today x

Hoping life is gentle to you today @Former-Member

Good morning All,

people say I look healthy, I sound upbeat and positive... Everything looks like its improving, on the outside... on the inside I feel broken, even more broken than a year ago, so the pressure is building to keep a smiling face and to "perform", "function", name it what you want.

So I'm packing my bag again to go and spend half the day doing things, mainly travelling to and from appointments and hope my mood will improve.

What we present on the outside is not always what is happening for us on the inside @Former-Member !

thinking of you...

and sending you love and strength...

Zoe