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Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Hmmm. Where to start? I’m not sure starting with a metaphor that brings mixed emotions is perhaps the best way to title a new thread, but just now it feels apt.

@NikNik has put up her picture of recovery up in the past. At first I hated it because I wanted that nice straight linear line (expectations) ......the one where the magic wand comes included 😯😝

So now that I’m finally accepting the reality that the road to recovery doesn’t exist on google maps (and there isnt a magic wand), I'm left with having to make it up as I go along.........and if there was one there wouldn’t be a measurement of how long the road was 😏

Please feel free to join in and tell your stories too of the good, the bad and the ugly of recovery.

😊💜

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

hugs @Teej thank you for sharing this (all of it) it helps to hear, relate to a lot and im always sitting nearby.. brain not really thinking much tonight though for a proper response 🙂 but im ok.

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

I am sure you will @Teej ..... you are working out how to tell your story ..... there will be a lot of bits and pieces to fit back into a workable place, and others that you will decide aren’t much use to you any more ..... just take the time it needs to take and work through it.

Sounds like your therapist is a good ‘un .... where you can empty out a bagful of don’t-know-what-to-do-with-this-stuff every now and then and she will help you sort through it ....

And of course we are here ..... 😁

Patience m’dear ....

Think I am gonna be here a long time yet ....

💜💐

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Thank you for your support @Former-Member. I’ve not been very good at acknowledging it but it means a lot to me. Sorry my first post went to protective teej mode. Thinking of you and sending hugs. 💜🤗

So sorry I stuffed up the first post. My brain is frazzled and am going to bed now to I think. 💜🤗

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Thanks @Teej - im just a bit tired tonight, it has been a big day but am ok. It was a pick up tonight so thats a good thing.. relieved to have my short people home again. Hope you get some rest tonight

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

@Teej Darling Teej thank you for including me in your post today. I am so happy that my new thread which I posted has helped you even in a small way. Helping others brings happiness doesn't it. I get happiness ... warm and fuzzy ... when I curl up under my doona with a hot water bottle in winter. I love that. So comforting and calming.

Again thanks for being who you are Teej a lovely beautiful person xxx

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Walking with you @Teej x

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Hearing you, @Teej. Wishing you the best, always. ox

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Walking with you along that darned twisty turny long path. @Teej

Glad you have stabilised from last week.

Glad that your sons can see your love.

It means a lot to me that you care whether or not you do respond. Somehow that my story made an impact.

You said you were feeling solemn. That hit me as that is probably a major feeling I have carried through my life. Not put in my religion, but by my life events. I am still not good at putting a word to the feeling experiences i have. It helps to see it in others and reflect.

Lately I have been processing a lot. Also realising that there has indeed been a lot to process.

You deserve the right to process your story.

It is hard to love everybody and keep up with everybody.

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

Hi @Faith-and-Hope

im sorry I didn’t respond to your call out. I’ve been going ok but had a bed day. I didn’t want to write anything negative because I’d been going ok over the past few days. Today I just collapsed in a hole but will try to dig myself out again tomorrow. I have my psych app tomorrow and have to face the music over my last hospital visit 😳😲. I have some other stuff to share later too about boxes getting ticked so there is good news too. I hope this finds you ok

💜🤗

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Re: Walking on the road to recovery ........ 🤔

I am okay @Teej, apart from some energy slumps in the last few days, but it is at the back end of doing a lot, so pressing my physical boundaries a bit. Might rest in tomorrow, then take D2 for an outing, she has been a bit overlooked of late.

Take courage about tomorrow ..... just step up and through it, and put it behind you, like beads on a string ..... (I know easier said than done, but once done it is past, and you are moving forward again.

Looking forward to hearing about the tick boxes when you can.

Goodnight Hon. Hope you sleep well.

Here is the puzzle I am currently doing ..... thoughts of you not far away ..... 💜💐🤗

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