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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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AuntGlowModerator
Hello wonderful humans!
@Appleblossom @Dimity @Chasingsunsets @Realness @heartathome @Emelia8
How are you all this evening? 🫶
Yes, I am around! Our hours have definitely changed a bit, because we are spread more across the entirety of Sane services, but we are still here and seeing all the wonderful work you're doing to support both yourselves and each other. 🥰
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Yes, I remember Tonys too. @Emelia8 @Dimity It has been the real living people who have made the forum respected over the years. So many beautiful people, who risked posting and sharing and supporting each other.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks for responding. Good to know you are still around @AuntGlow I miss @tyme
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DimitySenior Contributor
Love Hannah's double @Emelia8 .
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Yes, I really needed those moments yesterday @Taali
I am working really hard to self regulate at the moment.
I am agitated and pacing.
I have to let a man come into my house who wants to surveil my son and his home, which is my home, which also means me. Ha ha NOt. Never been into conspiracy theories or paranoia much, but this is the real deal. I want to tell him off cos his office is in a building where a bad ED doctor shamed my father, in front of his young children. That BAD doctor did not treat dad's pneumonia
Whose Paranoid? Hey.... Says she whose both parents had the dreaded diagnosis, when they went into hospital when we went into the orphanages when I was 6..
Oh the HARMS done by the so called services are massive. Their incompetencies lead to trauma loops. Any ethical workers, need to see it eventually and should be calling it out. Some do, but not enough. Because they are pretending to make risk assessments and care about our safety.
I am safe. but agitated.
Wish me luck that I dont make things worse for my family, and am calm, restrained uber profesisonal Apple.
Last time he showed, I was out. I should face up that they are on our case. btw, the cops went through my hard drive once, a long time ago, so know about my Sane forum involvement. I have nothing to hide. Yoohoo!
This is what happens when too many of my family have been harmed and their is no proper reconciliation, and paid workers, collect their pay but do not always do their job..
@AuntGlow
@Jynx Good to see you are still around. not sure who is on or off duty, since the forum rejig.
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Emelia8Senior Contributor
Oh @Appleblossom 😞
Standing with you my friend 💞
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thank you so much @Emelia8 for noticing. You have been a dear loyal, supportive friend over the years. I really value our connection.
Actually, my son showed me the text with the date and the time, which is right now, but the WORKER has not shown up. So yes, all my distress has been activiated for no purpose, today. Maybe, the so called wortker was confused and will show up next week, but his text definitely showed today. I know all people make mistakes and I have made excuses for all the service people who have made mistakes, but I am getting very very weary of it. They have all the power. I know just a little booboo. Nobody died this time. How long is it reasonable to expect to wait for my son's enquiry as to whether he is coming or admission that he made a mistake? That can be hard for them to do.
I am not making it up about the incompetencies of the services. Again and again and again and again. I always praise people who do their job. I dont take it for granted even if they are paid.
I will wait a little while to see if he responds to clarify, then going to go for a walk and will do church music and a Blues song I am working on to calm down. I better stay offline for a bit. Not good once I am this agitated.
@Jynx @AuntGlow
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Emelia8Senior Contributor
Breathe @Appleblossom 💕
So sorry the system has failed you, and your son, again. Hearing you, loud and clear. Hugs 🤗
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TaaliSenior Contributor
Oh my giddy aunt! @Appleblossom
You been through so much, i give you 15 out of 10 for your amazing resilience.
You are absolutely supported by me here.
AND it's perfectly understandable that you have times when you struggle.
Please be kind to yourself @Taali 💙
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
@Emelia8 Your quiet steady support has really helped me.
@Taali Thank you Bella. I often regress to Italian as I had Italian friends when I was a kid.
Yes, I have to admit that I am often very fragile, so I share about it on herre.
I went for a walk by myself, and lay down on a bench and listened to the birds. Then a friend asked me out on a walk and we went to some wetlands and had herbal tea. Feeling grateful for forum friends and in real life friends, and animal friends.
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