Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST

[Former-Member]

Nice to meet you too @Odette. I hope you find the forum helpful. Welcome 💜🤗

[Zoe7]

Thanks @NikNik I believe that this topic has gone extremely well. I have already checked out the new section and revisions that you have made in the guidelines - very well done on that 

Both the new section and this discussion have been extremely helpful and I am sure will be helpful for a lot of members.

Well done Nik 

[zakh]

Thank you so much to all the Admins, Guides and Contributors for tonight; this is my first Topic Tuesday and introduction to the SANE Forums as well. Very useful discussion/s, very much appreciated. x

[utopia]

@Nevyn134. In Victoria we have places like PARCS - a two week residential stay in a supported facility - not hospital. Often a client may go to hospital & then have a atay at PARCS before coming home.
I hope you are able to find something similar in your area.

[Phoenix_Rising]

@Odette Welcome to Forum Land. The pace isn't generally this ridiculously fast around the forums. I don't know about you, but my brain is a bit fried from that super fast-moving two hours.

@NikNik I'm impressed you still have easter eggs to run off to. I may possibly have finished the last of mine...all 30 of them, this morning. You and CherryBomb are a terribly bad influence when it comes to chocolate you know! Here I am looking to you as a role model and you lead me astray with your chocolate addiction. I never touched chocolate before I came here...oh...wait...yes I did.

Night.

[Former-Member]

Welcome @zakh too. I hope to see you around the forums. Best wishes 💜🤗

[Anony18]

Am a little late being in the west and just come back from a meeting. Just read all the posts.

Thanks @NikNik for running this thread and @soul and @Shaz51 for pointing me to it. I really needed this today with my current situation. The diagrams on self-care was amazing and @Spookytookims - the Serenity prayer is one I sometimes recite to myself. 

[oceangirl]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a bit late joining in tonight. I have recently got of hospital after spending four weeks in hospital. On completion of my treatment program before leaving, we had to process our continuing care plan in our primary group- triggers risk situations and strategies. To further develop our strategies we had to identify individual risk situations and strategies

Bottom line behaviours

Negative feelings, attitudes, thoughts and behaviours

Social pressures

Work study/pressure

Health pressure

Location pressure

We also had to liaise with the continuing care case manager through our stay in hospital to ensure we had the best treatment plan after discharge.

Social support

Engaging with a therapist

Recovery fundamentals (Mastering moods, Transition day program, PTSD, Lifeskills Day program)

BBQ with friends and family

Spiritual self care

Mindfulness

Physical self care

Walk the dog

Healthy diet

Join a gym

Join a swim club

Health check ups

Lifestyle

Day to day planning

Follow routine from hospital

Focus time- going to work

Sleep time- getting adequate rest

Down Time-  non focused without any specific goal

Play time- spontaneous and creative

Physical time- move our bodies

Time in- reflect internally (mindfulness) reflect through mediation and prayer, soothe,contain and move on

Connecting time- Connect with others- ideally face to face

Mental/emotional self care-

Checking in with ourselves (emotions/feeling)- know our core feelings and journaling

[utopia]

@Odette. I could relate to what you said about helping others rather than self. Yes - it can give me a 'buzz' - being 'helpful'. It is something that I have been watching in myself for the past few months.
Trying to be 'aware' of my reasons for helping. Even in the real world - I often focus on others - instead of my own care.

[Former-Member]

Awesome list  @oceangirl 💜🤗