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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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A lot of people do @Teej ..... it’s problematic all over my in-law family, but everybody tries, according to what they know. New ideas take time to grow and be learned.

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Like me and digital imaging .... lol

@Teej

Can you smile at that yet ?

A grimace for the bad humour will do ....

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I spent a lot of time at uni doing digital imaging using photoshop and other products. I feel your pain. I did love it though @Faith-and-Hope

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I think I am going to love it when I can do it @Teej ..... 😬

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What are you working on now @Faith-and-Hope?

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It’s more about what I want to be working on @Teej ..... I have the concept complete in my mind, and now I have to translate it into Photoshop and jump through lots of brand new hoops to try to make it happen .....

Involves crossing illustrations that I draw with photographs that I have taken.

Naked ambition on display here .....

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What do you mean by crossing your drawings and photos @Faith-and-Hope? Do you mean blending them to create one image?

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Blending ??? Not sure that’s the right word either.

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Yes @Teej .....

It will involve Photoshop layers, which I am starting to understand ..... I think ..... and removing part of the photo to replace it with drawn images ..... which themselves are taken from different photos.

I will have to learn to overlay as part of the process. Hoping I haven’t bitten off more than I can chew, but I have heard that Photoshop

is quite forgiving when you understand how it works, and you can move layers around in terms of order ..... so Inam going to work on little bits and pieces of it and ask for help if (when) I get stuck.

I don’t expect it will be brilliant, but I expect I will learn a lot, and that’s what I am here for .....

Flooding myself with it helps me to anaesthetise what else is going on too.

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Sounds really good @Faith-and-Hope. That’s what I thought. I was like you when I was studying. Got an idea in my head then had to learn how to do it through lots of tutorials. I liked that part though.

Hopefully you

l get your head around illustrator one day too. I wish I had drawing skills. I loved using illustrator.

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