[reecejackox]

Changes to the house

[Crimson Dynamo]

Isaiah 43:18-19
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a
new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert."

[Mystic Mock]

I'm mentally trying to learn about myself again.

Over the last year I feel like I've really changed as a person, and I'm trying to learn if it's a good thing or not and how to move forward.

This is where I feel like my Mom would've been able to help me in the past.

[Ray.]

I'm making the exciting and startling transition from ennui into anhedonia.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Not being were I'd thought I'd be and disliking myself very much. I feel like the vaccine made me get into a deep depression I am still struggling with. People laugh at me when I say this but genuinely I did read that a side effect can be depression

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Not being were I'd thought I'd be and disliking myself very much. I feel like the vaccine made me get into a deep depression I am still struggling with. People laugh at me when I say this but genuinely I did read that a side effect can be depression

Sorry to hear that Ceecee, have you talked to your Doctor about it?

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Sorry to hear that Ceecee, have you talked to your Doctor about it?

I did. I've been holding it off but finally went ahead and started some anti depressants.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Not being were I'd thought I'd be and disliking myself very much. I feel like the vaccine made me get into a deep depression I am still struggling with. People laugh at me when I say this but genuinely I did read that a side effect can be depression

That whole debacle I think changed all of us to some extent.

Have you spoke to any friends and family about this?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Not being were I'd thought I'd be and disliking myself very much. I feel like the vaccine made me get into a deep depression I am still struggling with. People laugh at me when I say this but genuinely I did read that a side effect can be depression

Interestingly … we both worked all through the stress of Covid ( education) and the vaccines.

Before Covid I felt as though I would live till 100 … and then came Covid and all those dreadful scenes of people dying in corridors and temp carparks ..

Being male of a certain age I went to work terrified each and every day for about 18 months - it also shattered my feeling of invincibility..


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[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Interestingly … we both worked all through the stress of Covid ( education) and the vaccines.

Before Covid I felt as though I would live till 100 … and then came Covid and all those dreadful scenes of people dying in corridors and temp carparks ..

Being male of a certain age I went to work terrified each and every day for about 18 months - it also left shattered my feeling of invincibility..


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Oh gosh I can imagine that it must've been so traumatic seeing all that first hand right in the height of it. How are you these days? That's something that one doesn't recover from easily of course but how are you coping these days?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Oh gosh I can imagine that it must've been so traumatic seeing all that first hand right in the height of it. How are you these days? That's something that one doesn't recover from easily of course but how are you coping these days?

Not good .. still very stressed and anxious but I keep busy volunteer gardening / forestry work in the local park / woods — and a nearby animal sanctuary … healing is painfully slow


I shouldn’t get into so many disagreements in here really as the stress just drags me to places I don’t want to be .. but due to being on the spectrum plus being/having ADHD I can’t stop myself ..

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[Zizu]

I retired earlier this year ( March) but still struggling to come to terms with all the massive changes ( routines ) so I have been experiencing high anxiety and long bouts of depression in the past months ..

Sadly relaxing or even being happy seems to be unattainable to me thus far.


Sounds crazy I guess !


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[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I retired earlier this year ( March) but still struggling to come to terms with all the massive changes ( routines ) so I have been experiencing high anxiety and long bouts of depression in the past months ..

Sadly relaxing or even being happy seems to be unattainable to me thus far.


Sounds crazy I guess !


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…just a crazy period of adjustment, that’s all……your focus has been on working and caring for others etc and all of that stuff that lives are all about…but now it’s about you and Mrs Zizu and doing the things that you both want to do and that’s a huge adjustment to thought process, really..try to slow it down to just one day at a time …

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Not being were I'd thought I'd be and disliking myself very much. I feel like the vaccine made me get into a deep depression I am still struggling with. People laugh at me when I say this but genuinely I did read that a side effect can be depression

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Sorry to hear that Ceecee, have you talked to your Doctor about it?

…as Niamh said, did you or will you speak to your GP, CeeCee…?…there is no laughter here…so many, many people are still so impacted from COVID in that they feel that it was a ‘before Covid’ life and an ‘after one’…a time of such anxiety for us all and such isolation and fear for loved ones etc…?…will often leave some anxieties still in place…

[Cherie]

We are in the process of fostering a dog until he or she gets their forever home, of course this all depends on how Princess Tilly reacts to another dog in the house...very excited though

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

We are in the process of fostering a dog until he or she gets their forever home, of course this all depends on how Princess Tilly reacts to another dog in the house...very excited though

ah lovely

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

We are in the process of fostering a dog until he or she gets their forever home, of course this all depends on how Princess Tilly reacts to another dog in the house...very excited though

What a lovely thing to do.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…as Niamh said, did you or will you speak to your GP, CeeCee…?…there is no laughter here…so many, many people are still so impacted from COVID in that they feel that it was a ‘before Covid’ life and an ‘after one’…a time of such anxiety for us all and such isolation and fear for loved ones etc…?…will often leave some anxieties still in place…

This is true. I've heard some say life stopped in 2019, everything else is a blur.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

This is true. I've heard some say life stopped in 2019, everything else is a blur.

…it’s/it was a big thing to go through and one that we just hadn’t foreseen and prepared for…and I think that it’s also not feeling that we somehow have to be that same person …it’s ok to feel that we’re changed by it in some ways…but to try not to let those changes transfer and become anxieties and fears, you know…because now you’re someone who has got through a pandemic …as humans, I think we can become very change averse to changes that we hadn’t ourselves decided and prepared for …and anxieties still prey on that to try to control because that’s what anxieties and fears etc do…it’s about trying to take each one at a time and dissolving it/dealing with it until they just don’t have any power over you…when we’ve had such a life knock as COVID and lived in fear for our families/friends etc and been isolated from them…it’s baby steps, to get back on track, you know…but that track won’t necessarily be the same continued track as before….its also an opportunity to look at any changes we feel and to mould them into positives if we can….

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

This is true. I've heard some say life stopped in 2019, everything else is a blur.

It does feel like it sometimes.

Although 2016 and 2023 are two other periods for me where I have found myself in a really dark place.

I'm still currently in the 2023 one, hopefully I'll bounce out of it like I always do.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…just a crazy period of adjustment, that’s all……your focus has been on working and caring for others etc and all of that stuff that lives are all about…but now it’s about you and Mrs Zizu and doing the things that you both want to do and that’s a huge adjustment to thought process, really..try to slow it down to just one day at a time …

Hugz


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[Kate!]

No Zizu it sounds human my love.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Kate!

No Zizu it sounds human my love.

You are an absolute angel !!


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[Black Dagger]

So I got diagnosed with anxiety a couple of months ago and I’m now on a CBT course and I’m learning about myself in the process. It’s all very heavy but kind of magical.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

So I got diagnosed with anxiety a couple of months ago and I’m now on a CBT course and I’m learning about myself in the process. It’s all very heavy but kind of magical.

as a fellow sufferer I can empathise. Therapy is good.