ā04-10-2016 01:26 PM
ā04-10-2016 01:26 PM
ā10-10-2016 09:44 AM
ā10-10-2016 09:44 AM
Happy Monday everyone!
Thank you @utopia for your response to last week's question š
This week's question is:
I have never really felt like something was wrong with the way I cope with things. I am perfectly fine laughing and joking around with others. And in those moments I really do feel fine. It's not like I'm faking to be happy. I genuinely enjoy my life and the people I'm around.
But when I get home, and I'm alone it's as if a switch gets turned. It's like as soon as I have time to myself, time to think, I just crumble. I feel so depressed, lonely and bored.
The only way I can fix feeling like that is bawling my eyes out for about an hour or more if it's really bad and then I'm fine. As if it didn't happen at all. I have these 'cry sessions' about everyone once in a month or so.
I don't know if thses 'crying sessions' are healthy. I never considered it weird until I a close friend asked me how I'm always so happy. It made me realise nobody actually knows how I feel. I have no interest in sharing anything with friends. I find it really hard to talk about my feelings to anyone.Is it even healthy to cope with feelings like that? And what would be a better way to cope with things?
ā10-10-2016 12:33 PM
ā10-10-2016 12:33 PM
Wonderful question, thank you.
How are you today? How do you feel asking this question?
It feels like to me that there are lots of different guages of mental illness. I do believe that you are a kind and generous soul but: you have a lot on your mind. A visit to the GP will be a great option to have the system where they may suggest you see a 10 session free time with a Psychologist.
Just to talk it through with a Proffecional. Questions like: what you have brought up here are asked to you in a very empathetic way.
I'm listening to the debates of the wanna be American Presidents. There is NO WAY that you have what one of the wanna be's have: You are not fake: sometimes, happiness can cover a little bit of fear about something thats happening in your life. But if you don't deal with it...
.it may grow, you know what I mean?
Thank you for the question. I wish others ask this question, It's so valid that people ask why they have different moods in different settings.
I'm not a proffecional therefore cannot answer whether you have an MI but you are so much more aware of yourself than I ever was. I only got to know avbout myself well into my 40s.
PP
ā10-10-2016 02:43 PM
ā10-10-2016 02:43 PM
ā10-10-2016 07:13 PM
ā10-10-2016 07:13 PM
ā10-10-2016 08:08 PM
ā10-10-2016 08:08 PM
Hello
Welcome to the forums
Crying is a release, a healing, a balancing out of the heart.
in tears, especially under a build up of stress. I try reduce that built up of stress these days before it overflows (nutrition, walking, thinking, therapy.., soak in the bath , listening to music, gardening ect .)
But about you, I think it might be a build up of stress - holding it all in, performing... but when you're home you release the stress with tears.
I have these 'cry sessions' about everyone once in a month or so. -- sounds like you know when you are going to have a "cry Session", when you can feel that it will be soon , have some "ME TIME"
ā24-10-2016 03:41 PM
ā24-10-2016 03:41 PM
Ask Anything Monday time. Thank you to @PeppiPatty @Former-Member @utopia and @Shaz51 for your very thoughtful question to our last question.
This week a member asks:
Has anyone managed to get over social anxiety? I'm struggling and feel like I'm going backwards half the time. I'll keep it together to get to a lecture and manage to sit in a huge room full of strangers trying not to feel judged by them. But then I get home and feel so exhausted that it seems impossible to think about doing it again. My counsellor tells me that I should 'build on the success' but it never gets easier. I figure she just doesn't really get what it's like.
So that's why I want to ask here. Do people actually get over this? Learn to feel safe outside of their home?
ā24-10-2016 04:08 PM
ā24-10-2016 04:08 PM
ā24-10-2016 05:00 PM
ā24-10-2016 05:00 PM
Hello
I asked my husband this question that you have asked
and he said it takes a long time get over social anxiety, But I think one day at a time and step by step
My husband can not go to too many social events he feels so exhausted after ir too , But I tell him I am proud of him of what he has done
your counsellor tells you that you should 'build on the success' --- I think she means to focus on what you have done and to think I have done it today
tomorrow is another day , then when you get home , relax and do some "me time " , something you enjoy
ā24-10-2016 05:17 PM
ā24-10-2016 05:17 PM
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