Doing ok and then bang !

My friend I really don’t know I haven’t

experience that type but my heart

goes out to you. Usually what happen

to me I begin to feel lonely inside and

become depressed for no good reason

at all. It’s like I just don’t feel like I

belongs any where. It is a very lonely

place to be when you are around

peope and you still feel like you are

by yourself.

It can feel so unnerving to experience that out of the blue @DGoldman. Often there's a lot happening under the surface that we're not quite ready to work through and sometimes it all gets too much to carry, resulting in everything sort of spilling out in a way that feels out of control. Is that something you can relate to?

It's really scary when that happens as it can feel like it's come out of nowhere. For some people, they find it useful to put together what's called an "early warning signs plan". This helps with noticing those small changes along the way so that you can jump in early and prevent things getting to a really full on space. Black dog have an example of that here.

Having a few go to coping strategies for dealing with strong emotions can be useful too. A few weeks back we had a discussion on coping with distress which has lots of stratgies worth trying out too.

Hope there's something useful there 🐼

---

@Former-Member wrote:

It can feel so unnerving to experience that out of the blue @DGoldman. Often there's a lot happening under the surface that we're not quite ready to work through and sometimes it all gets too much to carry, resulting in everything sort of spilling out in a way that feels out of control. Is that something you can relate to?

It's really scary when that happens as it can feel like it's come out of nowhere. For some people, they find it useful to put together what's called an "early warning signs plan". This helps with noticing those small changes along the way so that you can jump in early and prevent things getting to a really full on space. Black dog have an example of that here.

Having a few go to coping strategies for dealing with strong emotions can be useful too. A few weeks back we had a discussion on coping with distress which has lots of stratgies worth trying out too.

Hope there's something useful there 🐼

---

@Former-Member This is great esp. the coping with distress link thank you so much 🙂

---

@Former-Member wrote:

It can feel so unnerving to experience that out of the blue @DGoldman. Often there's a lot happening under the surface that we're not quite ready to work through and sometimes it all gets too much to carry, resulting in everything sort of spilling out in a way that feels out of control. Is that something you can relate to?

It's really scary when that happens as it can feel like it's come out of nowhere. For some people, they find it useful to put together what's called an "early warning signs plan". This helps with noticing those small changes along the way so that you can jump in early and prevent things getting to a really full on space. Black dog have an example of that here.

Having a few go to coping strategies for dealing with strong emotions can be useful too. A few weeks back we had a discussion on coping with distress which has lots of stratgies worth trying out too.

Hope there's something useful there 🐼

---

Not so well. How does everyone deal with feeling overwhelmed? I was doing okay earlier this week but now everything has just blown up.