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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
For a while I have tried to find a thread I had started when I joined the forum that could be a "home" thread for me.
Being busy about the forum has been a coping style, where I can acknowledge all my different life experiences that had been silenced. Possibly do some good and prevent things from getting worse. Like the little boy with the finger in the dyke.
Feeling fragile
Needing Nurture
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks @Eve7
It means something you saw, and posted on this thread. Feeling so isolated, especially from women.
Just playing some blues on piano before I head off to 2 medical appointments for the day. Trying to transmute the feelings in productive creative way rather than indulge. I really cant do that. I can hold things together for a long time under a lot of pressure, but not all the time.
Apple.
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Eve7Senior Contributor
I am sorry you are feeling this way today @Appleblossom
I am glad you can sit at your piano and play and acknowledge the therapeutic benefit in being creative today.
Sometimes I treat the computer keyboard as if it were a piano and play a concerto at work.
You are in my thoughts today 💜🌸💜
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Sitting with you my friend xxx @Appleblossom
Sending you hugs ❤❤
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
Hugs and hugs dear Apple @Appleblossom
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Hi @Appleblossom you are an important person in my life, even though I take long breaks from this SANE meeting place. We have travelled side by side as women for years. It's wonderful to have this connection with you that feels like it's always there even after time away.
So agree about what seems to be the over-emphasis in government policies of it being an individual illness when people are suffering mentally, emotionally, functionally. Was just talking today with a new psychologist about how when a person is in a precarious situation with housing, for example, no amount of therapy is going to fix that primary problem.
I understand your feeling too broken for this world. I love blues music. So sorry your day was so low. May the new day bring much better feelings to you, my friend.
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Last-LamentSenior Contributor
Hearing you @Appleblossom , wishing there was some comfort I could offer you.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thank you for noticing @Last-Lament
@Mazarita and you too re friendship. Good to hear from you whenever it happens. Seems funny that we became so solid ... in the cyber world ....
Heartfelt Thanks @Zoe7 @Shaz51 @Eve7 and all ... reading with understanding and compassion ...
Difficult today but ... I hope the work in therapy ... put in both my son and myself will help stabilise ... him ... and our relationship.
I did not have an accident ... tho things got a little tense in th car ... and also he agreed to sit and have a snack before I had to face the freeway again ...
Home safe now . .and dinner made from yesterday ... I thought it surpising ly yummy ... mushroom, bacon, kale, garlic, capsicum and onion .. in puff pastry ...
Take Care friends
including @outlander @Sans911 hope I have not left anyone out ... it ialways a danger with tagging ... so important not to take everything personally ... but I need to go now.
Hugs Apple
Still vulnerable ... but more hopeful ... less SI.
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Eve7Senior Contributor
Thanks for the update @Appleblossom you are sounding more positive today.
Thinking of you lots and feeling for you in this difficult time.
Lots of love
❤️💚❤️
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Last-LamentSenior Contributor
My thoughts and good wishes are with you @Appleblossom
Some days are difficult and others somehow lift our hearts, these are things you already know, so please forgive me for repeating them in my attempt to lift your spirit.
Be as kind as you can to yourself won't you.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks for posting and and trying @Last-Lament
My son finally walked in door 5 mins ago. Relief!
I am still settling from the palpitations of worry when I realised he was out an hour longer than planned. I will not tell of the fearful images I saw in my mind's eye, as I dont want to traumatise anyone.
Lets just say I really appreciate its timeliness.
Apple
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