Good Morning!

@avant-garde yes I get it now, thought it may have been a diagnosis my twitter friend had in the MH space. Not knowing how you will react is still a problem especially with prior contraindications

Top of the morning to you y'all....

@Glisten @Former-Member @avant-garde @Emelia8

I just want to show off - I met an older man who used to be a security guard in England and he met Putin somewhere in his job and he said, he's quite a nice man....

Lol 😆

@Glisten @Former-Member @avant-garde @Emelia8 @TAB

ADGE Happy Birthday Thread Re: Moving forward @Tilz @

Guess Puton didn't poke him w his radioactive umbrella lol @PeppyPatti maybe they could hook up w Trump and have a 3sum lol

@Former-Member

Tolerated the procedure fine, home now, told to take it easy... I'm not great at sitting still...

Hey @avant-garde glad you made it through the appt okay!!

I too, suck at sitting still 😅 - maybe some gentle movement like yoga or stretching, if you got that restlessness itch to scratch?

@Jynx

It's more that I'm shaking and need to calm down, jigsaw puzzles, nonograms, music, routine, coffee, coffee calms me down for some reason...

...are you neurodiverse @avant-garde? I think getting a calming effect from caffeine is pretty common amongst AuDHD folks.

In terms of calming - even 60s of deep, slow breathing does wonders for calming our system down.

Also time. It takes time for all the adrenaline and cortisol to work their way through our system. So even if some breathing or other mindfulness type exercise doesn't feel like it's working, you'll come back to baseline eventually, not to worry 💜

Hello @avant-garde great to hear it worked out ok with no damage!

@Jynx is right energy practices can be really good. Shaking the tree is a great pose for releasing toxic energy. Even if you do one thing, just shaking all over can release pent up energy and let you get on with your evening.

I have to do them especially if I am around toxic situations! Anyway great to hear you made it out the other side. I don't think you give yourself enough credit going by what you have said. You do ok

@Jynx

Trauma induced neurodivergency, not autism, I started showing neurodivergent traits when I was 7 or 8.

@Former-Member

I think that's why I've been crying, release nervous energy, started crying in the doctors surgery.

Going to order in tonight I think.

My GP bulk billed me, he didn't have to.

Heck yes @Former-Member love a good shake down!! Like a dog shaking after getting out of the pool, and adding in some vocals helps too - just a big ARGBLEARGHBOOGALOOGEDA 😅

@avant-garde fun fact, using our voice, like singing, chanting, humming, actually soothes our vagus nerve!