Writing As A Form Of Therapy

[Silenus]

Showing your weakness is a sign of strength...

[Teej]

Hey @Silenus,

question time, it’s been a while, just keeping you on your toes.

not sure if you experience this - when inside you are screaming but there are no words. Everything seems wrong and uncertain. If you have gone through this what did/do you do to get through? 

[Silenus]

Oh yeah, baby, I've been on that rich ride many a time... 🙂

If it is feeling like a truly existential challenge, which happens when words are nowhere near useful, I have to put in a lot of serious time and effort to process things. Years of experience are needed to respond appropriately to the at times rather complicated issues involved...

What do I do when everything falls to crap?

I breathe. Pure. Simple. No layers atop it. Breathe. Focus until focus becomes effortless...

There is Mindfulness, pure, simple...

Focus on love and loved ones... they help to ground you, but the real and proper reason for continuing life must always and ever come from you...

[Teej]

Thanks for responding @Silenus. It helps to know others get that part. 😢 for the last part as just when I think I know the reasons to stay I forget them. Will keep breathing for now. 💜🤗

[Silenus]

A Waste Of Breath?
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Life is breath, and breath is life
Steady breath will ease life's strife;
Ease your heart, to beat less keen,
A lusty life, lived healthily lean.

[SleepyPanda]

@Silenus

Nice!

SP

[Silenus]

Thank you, @SleepyPanda 🙂

[Former-Member]

oh wow @Mazarita

this resonates so strongly for me ....

do you mind if I copy and paste this on to my missing son thread?

I find that as I move around on different threads...some visited occasionally before...some new...some not seen for quite a while...I find responses that I can connect with...

yet in the real world ...I am so often misunderstood...in fact...in most cases I am...having forever to justify what I was trying to say...so very draining..

I now say to my husband I speak my own tongue ....not yet learnt by others I have met...

he just gives me that look of ...here we go again...

at this moment in time I am coping best by being myself...be true to thine own self....

@Teej whenever you are overwhelmed with feelings or not understanding whys and wherefores...I have learnt a valuable lesson only from recent times...following my many years of self analysis...

always listen to the thoughts around the feeling...note the feeling...identify if possible...accept is there and then breathe...focus...distract...breathe...ground yourself...grounding works best for me...breathing and mindfulness and relaxation work when I am not at my worst...for me I ground with nature...

@Silenus I love the idea of grounding thinking about loved ones....I will certainly practise that one..

thank you all 

[Mazarita]

At the airport now. I am honoured that you would like to share my poem, @Former-Member ox

[Former-Member]

@Mazarita