Mental Wellness Support Group

[fireproof78]

I see a lot of concerns around the interwebz today over many anxiety provoking events. I get it, and certainly can empathize. But, the other side of losing a job means I had to take a moment and rethink priorities. One of the biggest things I see with anxiety in clients, and myself, is the desperate effort to create power in the face of adversity. And, well, as sucky as it is to acknowledge, the power we have is limited to what we can control in ourselves. We cannot force the world to become more compassionate. We cannot force people to acknowledge our own worries or frailities.

What we ultimately are faced with is a choice of attitude, and how to bear up under that adversity. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_a_challenging_past_can_lead_to_a_happier_present

 

[Daedalus]

I hope tomorrow is a brighter day for everyone.

 

[SJGardner]

I just feel completely drained after both the personal and international bad news I've received. And reading all the posts not just in LGBTQ+ and women's spaces but everywhere about having to stay strong, to keep fighting, to go on out of spite, to endure, to survive day after day, just makes me feel completely helpless. I'm so damn TIRED of my entire life being a fight because I am a minority. TIRED of being forced to be a human rights activist just because of who I am. I don't want to spend every waking moment needing to try and convince not just individuals but society and the state that I am a human being and deserve to be treated with a modicum of respect. I just want to lay back, enjoy my life, and exist as the person I know I am with all my heart without having to fight every single day for it. Especially with all my mental health issues... I've been emotionally neglected all my life, and the emotional support I'm yearning for is simply not something that my friends or even a potential romantic partner could provide because I have no right to force anyone to give me the motherly love I've never received. I just have no idea how to support myself emotionally at all, and at the same time I have to stay strong and keep fighting. How could anyone stay sane in circumstances like this?

 

[JoseNoodles]

I just feel completely drained after both the personal and international bad news I've received. And reading all the posts not just in LGBTQ+ and women's spaces but everywhere about having to stay strong, to keep fighting, to go on out of spite, to endure, to survive day after day, just makes me feel completely helpless. I'm so damn TIRED of my entire life being a fight because I am a minority. TIRED of being forced to be a human rights activist just because of who I am. I don't want to spend every waking moment needing to try and convince not just individuals but society and the state that I am a human being and deserve to be treated with a modicum of respect. I just want to lay back, enjoy my life, and exist as the person I know I am with all my heart without having to fight every single day for it. Especially with all my mental health issues... I've been emotionally neglected all my life, and the emotional support I'm yearning for is simply not something that my friends or even a potential romantic partner could provide because I have no right to force anyone to give me the motherly love I've never received. I just have no idea how to support myself emotionally at all, and at the same time I have to stay strong and keep fighting. How could anyone stay sane in circumstances like this?

While I can't say I'm exactly in your situation, I feel like I understand what you are feeling. It's hard to be in a world you feel is actively hostile to you. But in times like these, shared strength and support are the order of the day. So I hope you can find some strength and support in my post.

 

[fireproof78]

Had to go to the doctor today, and obviously struggle with current stressors. In the doctor's office was a sign that resonated: start every day with gratitude.

And that's my goal. I might not be happy with my circumstances, with the struggles of people around me, but that's how I go through. A step of gratitude in every morning.

 

[raneclowd]

Every day I wake up hoping to find somebody or something to change my cynical views. There have been some pretty good days lately (especially the heroic efforts of Jeri Ryan and many of the other Trek women).

Today is the first morning I wish I had not woken up.

 

[raneclowd]

“It is painful and soul crushing to understand” - Jessica Velenti

 

[wayoung]

Need keeps getting worse. Can't even repair it now. Need a new foundation

 

[Bynar0110]

Sick with covid. I feel like I deserve it.

 

[Fantasy Lover]

Well my depression just took a nosedive, mainly because of my mom. I have the feeling she doesn't really listens to me: every time we phone she asks me about work but when she asks me what I ate she always interrupts me, and I've repeatedly told her to stop that. But does she listens? Noooo!

So I got mad at her, I told her she doesn't listen to me and that I'm depressed because of that and blocked her. Today she claimed to come to made amends, But instead she blamed me. *I* didn't tell her how I felt, *I* was responsible for my own depression, *I* was a liar and a visit to a psychiatry wasn't going to help me get better, only I could get myself better. So yeah, thanks mom

 

[Avro Arrow]

Sick with covid. I feel like I deserve it.

I’m sorry to hear that. I hope it’s mild, and you’re feeling better soon.

You certainly don’t “deserve it”.

 

[Random_Spock]

Sick with covid. I feel like I deserve it.

So sorry to hear that. You don't deserve it. No one does.


I've been depressed, tired and angry since the election. Trying to distract myself with playing some video games and reading some.

 

[fireproof78]

Sick with covid. I feel like I deserve it.

Not a single person deserves to be sick. Illness is illness and happens to us all.

 

[wayoung]

I got the covid & flu shots last week, I have to travel today. Didn't want to go without them. No side effects except a sore arm for a couple days. My sympathies to those posting here they are sick. I hope you all recover quickly.

 

[raneclowd]

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul."
from Invictus by William Ernest Henley

 

[HIjol]

How could anyone stay sane in circumstances like this?

I don’t know you very well, but I do know what I feel when I read your posts. There is energy and fire and (useful?) anger in your words that give me the impression that you are a fighter and (your own best) advocate.

Fight
Rail
Refuse to give in…

I know it’s easy for me to say, but I think I can read your ability to do so…

Do So!

 

[Jack Wolfe]

I'm going on a news fast for as long as I possibly can. That includes TV, online, radio, and discussions of current events. It won't be easy, but I have to try.

 

[HIjol]

Good Luck…

 

[raneclowd]

I'm going on a news fast for as long as I possibly can. That includes TV, online, radio, and discussions of current events. It won't be easy, but I have to try.

I’m on that too.

 

[HIjol]

Good Luck, once more…