16-02-2023 11:52 PM
16-02-2023 11:52 PM
You wrote about in your youth real life companionship feeling much more feasible than sitting at a computer
My answer to that would be most definitely.
You had your choices taken away from you and all choices were made for you confining you to a steel jungle with lights and beeps and many malfunctions.
You write well and have knowledge.
Were you allowed to ask your own questions without derision or silencing?
Were you allowed to express your own opinions?
I ask these questions because the answers for all for me are no to each one.
You need not reply of course.
This is only an option for you to choose whether you wish to share your answers or not.
I sense loss as that is my own experience
loss of me.
This is why I feel so strongly about being me in real life ..
I think it is a wonderful thing for you to want to live in real life with people with whom you click
Does this mean that you want them to have the same opinions as you.. think similarly?
Or would you find people who question your or others’ opinions interesting to talk and listen to also as long as they weren’t totally self absorbed of course?
Most of the most interesting people I have talked to during my whole life at work venues or socially have been those who keep in the shadows.
I will talk to them. I am not interested in popularity or favourites.
I am wondering if people might have been near and yet not noticed inevitably out of sigh.
Life is strange when we seek company.
I hope that you know that I am not prying. I am wanting to talk to you from a different perspective and style from the one that I have read so far.
Your turn
bye
16-02-2023 11:54 PM
16-02-2023 11:54 PM
I will write as soon as I can
I am very tired and must try to get some sleep
Goodnight
16-02-2023 11:55 PM
16-02-2023 11:55 PM
Hello People's,
I needed to talk. I'm low. I don't know if I'm sad. Burnt out. My life had been same same. Now I'm doing all these strange new wonderful things. Rewards I love. At same time detoxification of my soul. So all this thick black poison falls out of me everyday. I feel it pouring out. The next day becomes easier. I never know how long segments will last.
@Former-Member you wrote
We are in motion
We will not stay stuck in our minds where we are now.
We can move.
I only got this now. This is good news.
@tonys you say you are thick - I don't understand why you say these things. You said you depend on my challenging thinking. I don't know what this means. Wait, is it about not being stuck here?
I have been looking for the exit for a long time now.
I'm getting closer.
It doesn't appear there is one. Is there? Only the feeling of getting closer.
Reply as you wish. I only wanted to talk.
@Former-Member I am learning about trust.
I feel like I trust in a place that feels safe for me.
I will get hurt here too.
I might stand my ground till I am comfortable here.
Can I feel safe & supported to continue trying.
People I feel an instant bond with. Naturally trust more. Compatibility. I need to be aware. Strong foundations.
When things break it changes. It ends what was.
17-02-2023 12:22 AM
17-02-2023 12:22 AM
Hello @Former-Member hope ur ok.
Hello @StanD trust is tricky and I told my dr I think telling a traumatised person to trust is the worst U could say to them....terrible advice....because world is dangerous and trust can't be rushed
I'm in pain tonight physically ...feel sick ..and restless. I don't want to continue taking meds and refused today new sleep meds from my dr but am now terrified of the next week. Feel stuck and so scared.
17-02-2023 12:23 AM
17-02-2023 12:23 AM
You are safe
this is new
exciting ?
of course we all must have a sense of care for ourselves as for others always
you feel supported now and safe to continue?
trust builds slowly
you are listening to your inner thoughts and questions and being guided to ask
you are learning to trust yourself
you must trust yourself first before you think about trusting others
only share what you feel comfortable sharing
you can also ask a peer support worker like Tyne. Put @ before her name if you are unsure.
exits. There are many. We just have to look for them
they are usually lit up aren’t they like in shopping centres , car parks, picture theatres.
Stand your ground whenever you need to
Foundations are built also like trust
everything has beginnings
changes can happen at anytime. As in the weather
Change is not always bad or frightening
something broken can have opportunity to be mended. Sometimes fortified and made stronger
sleep is good for foundations of our health mind and body all a whole of us as one
time for sleep
sleep well StanD
goodnight
17-02-2023 12:31 AM
17-02-2023 12:31 AM
Can you read my reply to StanD
It might help
trust does take a long time and is.built gradually
it has troughs
like dips in the waves of the mighty seas
you are fearful of what lies ahead
do you have any prescribed medication to help relax you?
if you are feeling terrified you might need support in that way for tonight
if you do not have that what else helps you?
do you use lifeline at all?
call and say that you cannot settle your thoughts. Can they listen and stay with you for a little while until you feel safe
will that help?
17-02-2023 12:34 AM
17-02-2023 12:34 AM
If not perhaps flag for a moderator
my sleeping pill will not work if I do not close now
please stay safe and I will check on you both tomorrow
goodnight for now
17-02-2023 12:42 AM
17-02-2023 12:42 AM
Oh @EternalFlower I hear you that you don't want to take your meds.
Take your meds.
Don't torture yourself by being terrified for the week to come.
You can reply & tell me why you don't want to.
I think I'm ok where I am with trust.
You are right. Telling anyone to trust is not right.
Do you recall in high school, we had to do an exercise where you fall backwards & the person behind catches. Did you do that?
It was a nice shock being caught.
I think about that at times.
I would never stop my meds now. I know I'm not ready. The side effects are 'less than pleasurable ' And that really upsets me. I need the meds now.
17-02-2023 01:07 AM
17-02-2023 01:07 AM
Hi @Former-Member I will be honest about what has happened
I hope I can trust you here to hear me about meds etc and my journey as it is hard to share
I have taken a medication for one year and it has now stopped working. My dr wants me to change to another medication which he told me to research. Today he was meant to discuss with me this medication but he forgot and there was no time.he said in end of session as walking out he had sixty second and next patient is here and do I want the script for the new medication
I said no it's too rushed, not enough time etc.
I think it's ok to not take meds or take meds but now I have no script
I am admittedly a little anti meds overall but I take them for sleep sometimes and don't worry I support every person choosing what they need. Just in my life medication did more damage than help.
17-02-2023 01:19 AM
17-02-2023 01:19 AM
hello stan, Are you O K @StanD . My pet rabbit managed to drag his asss across my face and wake me from the best dream ever. Any way You asked a few questions so I thought I would try fill in my piece of the blank space.
It is what it is my friend. The computor hides an awful lot. I have aut level 2 and a brain injury.
Its no biggy. I ask my book keeper how to spell every 10th word and I couldnt even work out how to join a group discussion tonight that I was invited too. I dont actually remember going to school. and folk on sane still have bald patches where they ripped out clumps of hair trying to teach me the bare basics of using sane. Do i care. . . NO .... I tell people because They have a right to know that they have a square peg in their round hole. and when I misjudge signals, they give me a little guidance on the side. No mystery to it. I'm trying to interface with folk who have mental health and depression ailments I have never heard of before. Me all i have is A2 and brain injury. That is why I like feedback and watching how people interact, especially the full on autopsy. someone tearing their heart out and using it as big bold crayon. Raw courage, I learn. We all learn. . . and share. I used to do it but I think I frightened a few folk.
So, because of the fragile nature of some folk here I tend to feed my chunks of pain into a mincer and happiness sausages come out the bottom. Not to many peoples tast either But ...
We will all say the wrong thing from time to time. get wires crossed E t c.. There is no such thing as an easy life, for most there is just. . . . life.
We know a good heart and someone in need and pain when we see it. Don't be hard on yourself, There are lots of folks who hide and control it but they are in your trench. questioning, hurting, measuring all thats lost and gained just like you.
So . . . . If we are talking to you, It means we care about you. No need to undo every thought, especially the ones in my head. . . . . And never ever give up. You joined this platoon. We all need you. Keep writing... thankyou.
Tonys moon base one. . . .
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