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Coming to terms with reality

Coming to terms with reality

Hi Readers, i am suffering from "mental health issues" and it is an ongoing, daily battle. I am pretty much constantly wrestling with the thoughts going on in my mind. And my psychical life seems too be suffering for it. (There is a huge difference between physical and mental ) something is definitely not right! So each day I'm waking up and going about my routine. And over the last few days, weeks and months. I have been noticing changes in my mentality toward myself, others and life. And some questions such as, what is my life about? And what should my objectives be? Have arisen... of course like we all are, I'm subject too making decisions... and there has been the same options in front of me time and time again for months on end. And it becomes rather draining and mundane. And i feel myself going around in circles like something simple just ain't connecting.

I enjoy writing, art, music. And peace of mind... walking, reading, meditation. Taking care of myself. Socialising. Etcetera. Getting ahead, getting in front. Planning, dreaming and so on. And do my best to look after myself. While accepting that it can only ever be so much.

But there just something not quite right. And I'm suffering for it on a daily basis. And I'm tired and fed up with going through the same stuff everyday. And in all honesty. Alot of my suffering comes from prospective and thought processes.

Does anyone wanna talk with me about some things that might help? In particular dealing with people no matter who they are. Can be very stressful and cause lots of procrastinating about pros and cons. In particularly people who i think about reaching out to for support. Because of dilemmas dramas and social dynamics. And picking up on things that "aint really happening" "gut feelings type of stuff " "intuition" that type of thing. And enjoying time with people is great! I just tend to be overly preoccupied with symptoms to be worried about socialising sometimes "Symptoms which involves others"

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Re: Sharing the wisdom within

DBT is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy - it is a group based therapy. You can read more about it here. @eudemonism

At the psych appointment we talked about my nightmares, what happened at the pool yesterday and how members of the DBT group leaving will affect me. It was nt a very intense session - more a check in as that was the last session I will have with her before my pdoc comes back next week.

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Yea @Bunniekins and your other daughter left home?

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@Zoe7 sometimes i think all these diagnosis names are just labels which help them categorise people

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Pdoc appointments once a week? I'm lucky to see a psychiatrist once a year @Zoe7 that's remote areas for ya

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@eudemonism that would be son1 he lives overseas.

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Truth be known @Bunniekins no denial here... I've probably had multiple mhi and other problems since i was a child.

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Part of doing DBT is that we see our pdoc afterwards to discuss anything that comes up in the session @eudemonism - that is why we have weekly appointments. When I was at my worst (and before DBT) I had weekly appointments also - as I did when we changed meds. I also see my GP weekly. When I was seeing a psychologist there was a stage where I had twice weekly appintments - I have been very lucky in finding the health professionals that I have had.

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@eudemonism I would say it was very common. I was saying earlier to Dadcaringalone that my autistic son with the psychosis was seeing things when he was 5 years old but it was dismissed becauase of his age .... ugh what can you do with these so called professionals.

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Are they public or private professionals @Zoe7 ?

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Sorry @eudemonism the "it" in my last post was about Dada, or Dadaism. I have an old friend who is really into "it" and runs an improvising group. There are youtubes and wkik on Dada and its practitioners. Duchamp was in it for a while. @Zoe7's into art.

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