Just checking in.

[Teej]

How did your psych appointment go? @CheerBear . Was it helpful? 

[CheerBear]

I wonder if we could both find a magic wand to escape to a break place for a few days @Teej. I'm with ya in needing a time out soon I think. Trying not to think about it too much as it is going to be so hard to get. I'm sorry you're having a hard time, and probably a harder time than I maybe picked up on. Did psych get back to your SOS? It's good to hear you're on top of what's going on and trying to get to it before it gets bigger. I really hope there's something that helps soon ❤

Haha I did the garden thing too when I got home from morning tea. Then I got my dressing gown on, sat on the lounge, and have a cat and blanket with me now. It's my break at home.

I had counsellor yesterday and it was helpful thanks. I am being very brave and talking about things I don't really talk about. It means I end up like a shaky ball of "here are my feelings, please take them and fix them" 😉 but she has an awesome way of helping me see things in a way I can make meaning and sense of.

[Teej]

That’s what I need help with now too @CheerBear 💜....here are my feelings and I don’t understand them or know what to do with them so I can do the next step forward. Thank you for pointing out what my problem really is 😘. I have an appointment with my therapist tomorrow but that won’t help this stuff. She will tell me what is the 'right thing' but I won’t get any closer to working it out which is what I need. My psych did get back to me after hours last night which was amazing, and was ok to talk for a few minutes but I was in the supermarket at the time and couldn’t talk. It did help that she wanted to help. 

Just having a feel like I’ve been hit by a truck stuff. I had GP appointment yesterday which added to all my confusion and uncertainty. Not from my GP but she told me what my psych wants to do which is adding a new medication in but I’m feeling so overwhelmed with everything else that I don’t know if I can do it. It’s an ADHD medication. I also have a few physical anomalies which I don’t feel but keep getting wonky blood test results, not enough to worry but enough to have to chase up. 

For someone who had no words that was a big vent. 😜 when I typed that it came out big gent 😂. 

I hope there is a way for a break place again for you. 

[CheerBear]

I've been pondering the values thing we briefly spoke about yesterday (or the day before, who knows!) @Teej, and thinking about it a bit. I came across something about the difference between reaching a goal and living your values. I wondered whether maybe some of the conflict you're feeling is something like that. Where there is a goal but maybe it is pulling you away from your values, or your values are clashing on your way there. I'll work out what to do, if anything, with a discussion about values as I think it is often a source of trouble for me and I imagine others. Either way, it is hard when there is a seemingly "right thing" (as you mentioned counsellor might say) but that it doesn't maybe feel so right for you.

New medication sounds maybe hopeful but maybe scary too. Glad psych got back to you last night. I totally feel how helpful it can be when someone shows you they want to support you, even if showing you is all they can really do. Something really helpful for me yesterday was a simple "I'm listening". That alone can make a big difference.

I'm going to go and keep hunting for a sparkly blue fire horse before the kids get home and I have to share the game 😆

Big ❤. I hope the rest of your afternoon is OK/OK enough.

[Appleblossom]

@CheerBear @Teej @outlander @eth  and other purple lovers

[CheerBear]

How beautiful @Appleblossom. That deep purple 😍 I think I'd like to be there right now.

I hope today has had some good in it for you.

[Faith-and-Hope]

.... Lovely flowers @Appleblossom ❣️

Hi to everybody here ..... @CheerBear @Teej @Former-Member @outlander  ..... anyone else around .....

Just taking a breather before it’s head down tail up tonight 

[Teej]

Amazing colours @Appleblossom 💜💜💜💜💜

[outlander]

love the flowers @Appleblossom 💜

@Teej @Sans911 @CheerBear ❤❤❤

hello @Former-Member nice to meet you too 👋

[Teej]

Hi @outlander , @Appleblossom , @Faith-and-Hope , @Former-Member , @CheerBear, @Sans911  👋🏻

I am thinking of you @Faith-and-Hope knowing how frazzled you must be feeling. 

@CheerBear I want to share something with you. At one point this afternoon I reread your last post and it helped me to clarify what I was struggling with. I’ve just got off the help line with a way forward until I see my psych next week. Then I hope she can get the twisty bits unravelled a bit better. You were kind of right but I didn’t see it at first. It was about my values being conflicted in trying to reach a goal. It’s a little more than that but that is deep at the core of it. I feel a bit lighter for it, metaphorically speaking. I wish I could feel physically lighter too. 😜💜😘