Night Shift

I must be feeling a bit better, my sense of humour is coming back. Feeling a bit apprehensive about my folks seeing my therapist tomorrow which will be interesting to say the least 🤔😬

hey @Mazarita and @eth if you are around, thinking of you both and hoping the universe is treating you ok, actually hoping its treating you both well💜😊

also rambling another sign of being ok😳😜

oi ye ye

and Ow eeee

make up a poem

Sorry about screwed up back @Kurra .. sometimes you just have to keep doing different things not to get too rigid and stuck ... but as muso I am sure you have your helpful things worked out.

I played the first 2 Waldstein movements a bit ... the first is so calming as it has lovely bars of only one chord so my eyes and brain get a break and my soul can carry along Beethoven's wonderful music ...

I have been focussing on Bach cos I am trying to fix my scattered brain ... dobbed in to play a Sinfonia from the Cmin partita for a memorial next month.

@Former-Member and @Former-Member

I think I might go for a walk tomorrow ... hearing all talk ... I walked about an hour yesterday ... just to nd from the station ... but going to the river sounds nice .. I need a bit of nature.

Are you here somewhere @Former-Member ?

Saw @Former-Member's call-out there ....

Hey @Former-Member what is your degree in? Not sure if you've said and I've forgotten. I was half way through mine when my mi struck but will never get back to finish it. I hope to study something else one day again but need to be stable to do so. I've been stuck for such a long time too so I relate to that. I think I'm so stuck they've named me a landmark😜

Hi @Kurra I'm sorry to hear your back is giving you so much grief atm. Hope you are able to get comfortable tonight and your GP is able to help you tomorrow. Have you tried a warm bath & epsom salts to help relax the muscles?

Btw what time do you take your AD med? I think you said it helped you sleep, I am taking the same but in liquid atm.

Hope you will be okay tonight and hope the pain eases up for you.

Hey @Former-Member

Thanks so much for your message and connecting with me. You seem pretty good to me @Former-Member. I think you are being way too hard on yourself. I have a degree in public health major in health promotion. What were you studying? At least you have not lost your sense of humor.

That sounds interesting @Former-Member. Are there many jobs in that area at the moment? I guess I'm a bit ignorant as to what jobs would be around. I know you have to work on you for now and it sounds like you are working really hard on that. I read about you losing all that weight and your goal of getting back on your surfboard. That's fabulous and you should be really proud of yourself. Setting goals and achieving them is such a great step forward, perhaps you are a bit hard on yourself too 🤔😊 I realise this doesn't take away the depression but it's a huge achievement while you have depression.

I was studying a bachelor of media studies majoring in web design but unfortunately I will never make a career of it now and need to change direction. I'm not sure exactly what yet but I think it needs to be people focused. I have managed to lose 20 kg since last November but through cutting back on sugar and bread and sometimes starving myself😬. I know it's not sustainable though. When I go down I often don't eat for days so much of my weight has come off this way.

I thought it was an interesting field of studying too. To be honest there is not a lot of jobs going were I am living atm but I have also been too unwell to work. As most health jobs and growth are happening were people work directly with patients/clients.

I appreciate your kind words & encouragement and I think getting my health back on track is a big step forward for me. I think sometimes I can be a bit hard on myself. But I would really like to get into public health and even do some work in mental health and wellness programs.I have just finished off doing my austswim, I needed to do something for me if that makes sense. I would like to do this as more as a hobby and see were it takes me.

The weight loss as not been easy with severe depression & anxiety and plus going through premature ovarian failure as not helped the cause either. I'm starting to get some motivation back but only slightly so I am going take things slowly for a while.

Have you had any career couselling to find out what field of study or career path would suit you best, I know some tafe offer this service online it mite be worthwhile checking this out.

@Former-Member I have tried to go back to Tafe in the last few years too but wasn't coping with that even. I saw a terrific counsellor there and we did a bit of career planning but that seems so far away from where I am now and my age is against me for so much. However I am looking at some volunteer work and then once I'm more stable will look more seriously at what to do and any study involved. I have some ideas but really need to take one step at a time and be more open minded about any opportunities that there may be.

Has your ovarian failure contributed to hormonal issues to @Former-Member if you don't mind me asking. I'm pretty sure hormones are not helping me either recently.

Ok .... that 'like' was for the people-focused part @Former-Member ....

I know you are experiencing mood swings and down times, but you have a really lovely manner of empathising and engaging others in conversation. People focused studies sounds like a great goal to me ❣

Weight loss is really hard for me ... I eat well, have a good relationship with food, and exercise a decent amount but Metabolic Syndrome issues have kept me overweight regardless .... stress sure doesn't help with that ... so I have to add in de-stress activities as a priority as much as the healthy eating and exercise.