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I am struggling at the moment

I am struggling at the moment

I don't know why I am really writing this. There seems to be part of me which says that I need to pull my head in and do this alone and another part who so desperately wants to reach out for help. I am really struggling. I'm not coping at all. For much of the day I've thought about all the reasons to die and there are hundreds. There is also one reason to live that keeps me here. I can't let down my oldest son and cut out his trip of a lifetime. He would have to come home and pick up all the pieces for everyone. I keep telling myself I have to hold on until he comes back and then I can let go but this keeps me waiting to die not choosing to live. I have a cold sore that now goes from the corner of my eye the length of my nose and it's slowly creeping across my face from stress. It started on Wednesday and each morning I wake to find more of my face engulfed by it. I am so tired. I am so sorry to write this and I know I'm so lucky to have friends on here that care. I don't want anyone to have to deal with this as it is so depressing so I started this thread as a way of saying that I'm not well when writing here and please don't feel obliged to read or respond.

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Hi @Former-Member

Glad to hear you were able to have an appointment with your therapist. Its good that she saw you, how you really are i guess... if that makes sense. I hope that it was helpful for you.

well done on being showered and dressed 🙂

lj

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How are you travelling @Former-Member? I've not been around for you much either. I'm so sorry, once I crash I go into my head only.
How are things with you? Is it helping a bit not to be working?

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hi @Former-Member

yes it is good to not be working, im just getting through day by day.

i'm ok

lj

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Well done on navigating this morning @Former-Member .....

And not "too stupid" ..... I felt a bit stupid when I realised how I was being knocked about by my in-laws at first ... it's part of feeling humiliated by the treatment I guess .... but then my self-compassion kicked in and told me loudly and firmly that I had just been ignorant to that yoke of behaviour ... which is natural to an innocent state of mind .... and that is what it is like for a child.

You were innocent @Former-Member .... a child .... there was no way you could read what was going on .... that comes later, as it is for you now, and although it can make you feel a bit stupid for not having seen it, it's not stupid at all .... it was trusting, and it was having been programmed to obey .... even when instructions were conflicting.

Dont forget, that although I may be able to put things into a nutshell now, it took me many years and many tears to sort it all out at my end .... and if I can offer you some short-cuts and less pain, it is my pleasure to do so ....

Keep swimming @Former-Member

Showered .... ✅

Clean (dressy ,... 😊) clothes .... ✅

Therapist emergency

apt .... ✅

Telling us about it here .... ✅

Recognising family sh/t in hind-sight .... ✅

Things to focus on till Friday .... ✅

Appreciating the art and craftwork of others .... ✅

🐠🐠🐠

❤️💕 u @Former-Member

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And yes @Faith-and-Hope I'm the product of not having that control of my own personal management. Best for WH stop that as soon as possible or introduce WH to me and it will scare the crap out of him. 💜🤗😘

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Love your humour @Former-Member .... and you're in the process of gaining that control .... then you'll turn around and scare the crap out of them all like I did .... ❣

I'm a force to be reconned with now @Former-Member .... and they all know it, including WH ....

❤️

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..taking Tabmeisters ''simple' approach 😵✅lol

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Ha ! Better make that *reckoned .... before @Former-Member is on to me .... lol ....

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Ya reckon? Well that is good then. You know our approaches/experiences differ tho and I don't really have anything at stake by facilitating others.. soz, gloves off, but sheesh 😀.. better to deal with sh than sit and linger.. anyhoo.. not in your situ and you know best hopefully.. just being 'real' or was that formerly known as... etc etc ..👸😵🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩

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You know I have my significant birthday in a few weeks and it's doing my head in how I got to be this age without 'growing up'. How did I put my head in the sand for decades and have hidden from all my issues including MI ones. I think if I'd had to do a DASS decades ago I would have scored highly, not as much as after d day but still enough to have sought help which would have unravelled all of this. My whinge over but not my dummy spit.

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