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Worry Room - Get it out, and walk away: No responses please

CherryBombSenior Contributor01 Oct 2015, 2:16 pm AEST

Worry Room - Get it out, and walk away: No responses please

Got something that's bugging you?

Want to vent, but don't want a response?

Sometimes our minds can get stuck in circles trying to sort out an issue. This can keep you up at night, or make it hard to focus on other things. I find that putting things away, and not thinking about it temporarily can be helpful.

This is the place to get it out, and then give yourself permission to let it go.

Maybe you will need to get back to it some other time, but this is space where you can put it in a place so that you can leave it for some time and (try) not to worry about it in the mean time.

It's a thread where people don't need to reply, it purely just to get it out your worry and concerns.

If you want to show your support for someone, hit the 'like' button. In this thread, 'like' doesn't mean that you 'like' someone's issue, but you support them in letting it out.

So write down your concerns, put it in a vault, shut the door, and allow yourself to walk away from it.

Pls note: If you are reading other people's posts, please respect that they don't want a response. Show your support by 'Liking' their post.

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PepperpotSenior Contributor16 May 2018, 4:34 am AEST

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I’m writing this through blurred vision (tears). People often say a heartbreak can feel as though your heart is physically broken. That’s how it feels. It feels like someone took a hammer and smashed my heart into tiny little pieces.

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xtineSenior Contributor16 May 2018, 7:42 am AEST

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I worry that due to all the caring I do (in order of severity): for my daughter, my self and my partner - that I’ll not be able to finish work for my exhibition this year. It seems insurmountable at the moment and my motivation is low. I have to keep telling myself to go slow and let my energy catch up. I’m used to being independent and busy, but it seems like all that is now becoming the way I “used” to do things. I’ve worked hard building a strong social network the last couple of years, where previously I had negative people as “friends”. I spend time on my friendships and with other Mums. This feels very special, yet I keep getting hung up on the fact that it’s not “work”. This is a ridiculous distortion of thinking: to consider these immensely valuable social connections as unimportant because they have no economic base. I can’t help wondering what a society we gave become when we have to second-guess our social connection against an economic value, largely because I can’t work and I feel guilty about not being able to do it “all” - yet I am doing everything I need to do. It’s a struggle when you have to convince the government of such things...

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xtineSenior Contributor16 May 2018, 7:43 am AEST

Re: Worry Room - Get it out, and walk away: No responses please

I worry that due to all the caring I do (in order of severity): for my daughter, my self and my partner - that I’ll not be able to finish work for my exhibition this year. It seems insurmountable at the moment and my motivation is low. I have to keep telling myself to go slow and let my energy catch up. I’m used to being independent and busy, but it seems like all that is now becoming the way I “used” to do things. I’ve worked hard building a strong social network the last couple of years, where previously I had negative people as “friends”. I spend time on my friendships and with other Mums. This feels very special, yet I keep getting hung up on the fact that it’s not “work”. This is a ridiculous distortion of thinking: to consider these immensely valuable social connections as unimportant because they have no economic base. I can’t help wondering what a society we have become when we have to second-guess our social connection against an economic value, largely because I can’t work and I feel guilty about not being able to do it “all” - yet I am doing everything I need to do. It’s a struggle when you have to convince the government of such things...

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SnowieSenior Contributor16 May 2018, 3:01 pm AEST

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Too hard 😔 just too damm hard

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Sans911Senior Contributor17 May 2018, 4:58 am AEST

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If this is where therapy pushes me to every week, then I want no part of it. It's just too hard to experience this two weeks in a row; being pushed to the precipice of existence. Tonight is the closest I've been in months. I'm frightened I'll loose my grip of the tight rein of life that I hold, and if that goes, then then the outcome could be very, very determinal. I don't want to hurt those who love me so much. I've seen recently what my Auntie has gone through loosing her son this way.

I've barely slept tonight, or eaten much in the last 24hours. My therapist seemed so uncaring when I mentioned how hopeless I felt and that living was too hard. He barely reacted or voiced concern. Was I being manipulative and giving idle threats that he believed I wouldn't act on.

I don't know what to do. I really don't. I want to change, but it's very difficult to do. It means unravelling past behaviours established so long ago. How do I do that? How do I build a sense of myself; that I am a decent and worthy person.

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MaggieSenior Contributor17 May 2018, 5:06 am AEST

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xtineSenior Contributor17 May 2018, 5:48 pm AEST

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I worry that I don’t gave te strength to keep going. My Mum died when she was 42 and that is how old I am now. She committed suicide. I feel so alone. My husband left me last year because I needed support and expressed it in a way that he didn’t agree with or didn’t know how to deal with. I have the main responsibility of looking after my daughte, whose father left me for another woman. He doesn’t pay child support and I get respite when he takes our daughter every second weekend. I am stuck in the mousewheel of Centrelink and get more depressed just thinking about the endless struggles and hoops a person has to go through to get much, if anything, from them. I feel hopeless and wonder if I’ll survive my life in any measure outside of poverty in old age.

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SnowieSenior Contributor18 May 2018, 12:40 am AEST

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My mind wont give me a break, I am trying to ignore, to distract, to not give in. I'm sorry

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Unknown userMember18 May 2018, 2:55 pm AEST

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everything is just too hard, theres nothing but pressure and expectations and failure to do everything that is needed just to survive.

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NatalieSSenior Contributor19 May 2018, 5:13 pm AEST

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Maybe I'm just having a bad couple of days.....have a splitting headache which is just adding to the depression. Grey skies and lots of rain adds to the depression. Sunshine and warmth are mood lifters for me. Realising my job will be ending at the end of the financial year adds to the depression. I am experiencing all different emotions: sadness, periods of happiness when I realise there are so many possibilities out there, stressed that this process is confidential and I'm not permitted to share with anyone at work.

Next week will be the 6 month anniversary of me randomly meeting my friend/brother Andrew on the bus. We have shared alot together and we have each others' backs. I am so proud of the progress he is making in his life: he has secured 25 hours per week of permanent work, working from midnight, three nights a week, which still allows him to be part of footy training and game day each work, plus his church activities. I am watching him develop and blossom. I want for him to have more happiness in his life, and not be forever looking over his shoulder because of Centrelink's requirements for Newstart payments.

I can be down in the dumps about my situation, which compared to others is quite minimal, and then I think how far Andrew has come and I smile and cry and get all emotional-which he knows about-but that's just the way it is at present, and probably will be when the end of June arrives. Just got to be kind to myself...and accepting. Thanks for listening.

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