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Really wobbly

Really wobbly

Any advice and suggestions about how to stay grounded and do self care much appreciated. I have some big stressors in my life right now. That combined with Bipolar 1 and Anxiety is really knocking me around. Trying to sell home as result of marriage breakdown, pay debts, find new home. My daughter (who is my main support) is leaving home (can't blame her). I have a young son to look after and I'm trying to protect him from the strain of the situation. All this is coming off the back of a mixed episode, which has recently been replaced by plumetting mood and skyrocketing anxiety. I am teary and on the verge of panic and need to talk myself down - there's noone else to do it. The future is scaring me.

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Hugs @frog xx

The second photo is on my kitchen bench

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@frogxoxo thing about you big time xoxo

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@froghope you are ok my friend , glad you are having the day off today xx

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I'm having a hard time. My son is giving me serious grief. I did a meditation this morning: compassion towards cruelty but I'm really not feeling it. Just so exhausted. He rants nasty stuff at me, usually when I'm trying to get to sleep so I wake up feeling emotionally hungover and sleep deprived. I sleep under the stairs. He has the one bedroom and sits in there yelling at me. I have nowhere to retreat to. My psychologist says leave the house. I feel like it's not my house any more. I think I need to reclaim the bedroom for myself. I don't know what I'm going to do today. Just feeling spent. One foot after the other eh team?

I don't quit, but sometimes I don't know how to rest. That's the space I'm in right now

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Big hugs @frog.

Having no escape at home would be very hard. I like the idea of not quitting but resting. Easier said than done sometimes though.

Lots of these 💗❤💗 for you

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@frog Ohh froggy I am so sorry you are going through this with your son 😞 hurts extra more when it is your son. Lots of love greenpea xxx

A pic to make you giggle a bit

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So sorry you are dealing with so much with your son @frog That is a really difficult place to be in Hon. Sending you huge hugs

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Although the frog with earmuffs is a giggle, it's also the suggestion I was going to make @frog .... as a short term measure, I would pop some earplugs in when he is ranting. Just the sharpness of the noise, and the constancy of it jangles the nerves, so reducing it physically like that will give your system a bit of a break.

It sounds like you could use some intervention like family counselling, which would give your son someone esle to answer to, and agreed boundaries with consequences can be negotiated. He needs to hear from a third party that what he is doing is not okay.

Part of our issues with personality disorders have spilled in this direction. The parties involved had to learn that that sort of aggression is not acceptable, and that there are better ways to communicate how you are feeling, and deal with the anxiety that is driving the behaviour so it channels into more positive directions. He is clearly not coping, and continuing to blast you as a way of relieving that pressure is not helping either of you.

Hugs and hugs @frog. It really sucks. It was my hubby who was ranty like that .... sheesh .... and it was counsellors who reigned him back in with it.

Your gp would be a usual starting point to accessing help that he is answerable to. You could go through Relationships Australia, but your family doctor can call him in, with you, and refer you both on to family counselling and support. That way it is issued to him as a requirement. He is clearly not respecting your authority as the head and maintainer of the household, and yes, in my opinion, he doesn't deserve to have the bedroom ..... and that is feeding arrogance instead of being received as a privilege. An outside authority is likely to point that out to him loud and clear as well, and help you to re-establish authority and respect in the relationship.

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@frog. It's not good if you haven't had enough rest or sleep. It drains you of energy.

Take back your room. Decorate it to suit. A nice relaxing meditative space to be. No sons or swearing allowed.

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Sorry @frog for what you’re going through.

Hugs 🤗 and more hugs 🤗❤️❤️❤️

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