i know that this has nothing to do about diving but i have enjoyed this board very much and i need to know how do some of you handle feeling down on life..i have had my share of this feeling lately..the feeling has been so strong lately that sometimes i just dont want to go to sleep..and please dont judge me here and think that im crazy because im not thats for sure..i just wonder if the past is catching up with me.what is for sure is i need someone to talk to right now
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Arnaud
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What do you mean?
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Cherry
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The one constant in life is change and this too will pass. I know sometimes for me when I am down it is like when you were a teenager and it seems it will never be any different but it will. Actually you have probably taken the best step you could have and that is to talk about it. Thats one of the things I like most about the diving community they love to talk and we do care about you. Try each day to look for little things that make you smile a child playing, a ray of sunlight or in my case my kid coming in late and suffering like hell the next day never fails to make me smile. How about all of us start posting the little things we see that make us smile?
Good luck
Cherry
Good luck
Cherry
kelpmermaid
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How about some physical exercise? It's probably not what you feel like doing, but I've found it helps to refocus one's energies on the present. It's also supposed to be good in terms of body chemistry. Speaking of which, if it does not pass soon, you will see your doctor, won't you?
Ontario Diver
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No matter how you are feeling, there is nothing wrong with you as a person. The wise and beautiful KelperMaid is correct (as usual)... Physical exercise is good, contact with other people is good, letting your emotions control the situation is not good. (I know, sounds kinda preachy - please forgive!)
If you are still feeling this way in a few days, please seek some medical or pastorial help. Being down for a couple of days is part of life's cycle - down for a couple of weeks is bad especially if it happens often.
If I can help in anyway, PM me. And you are not imposing.
If you are still feeling this way in a few days, please seek some medical or pastorial help. Being down for a couple of days is part of life's cycle - down for a couple of weeks is bad especially if it happens often.
If I can help in anyway, PM me. And you are not imposing.
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and we all have been through rough points in our life. It is easier after you've been through something, to look back, and critically analyze it, or think that you did something wrong, or made a bad choice. What is it that they say, "hindsight is 20/20"?
Do not feel sad. You are human, and you have had experiences in your life that make you YOU. It is the good things that we go through, as well as the bad, that make us stronger and make us better people. It is our training ground for the future.
If you would like to talk more, please feel free to PM me. Things WILL get better, I promise! This too shall pass. Hang in there and just take it one day at a time, okay?
HUGS to you,
Do not feel sad. You are human, and you have had experiences in your life that make you YOU. It is the good things that we go through, as well as the bad, that make us stronger and make us better people. It is our training ground for the future.
If you would like to talk more, please feel free to PM me. Things WILL get better, I promise! This too shall pass. Hang in there and just take it one day at a time, okay?
HUGS to you,
Bob3
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There's good news... First tho', I happened to see your msg on my guy's puter and felt compelled to reply. It took til middle age before somebody finally identified my lifelong chronic low-grade depression which absolutely has a genetic, body chemistry basis. So there's no judging here, even if yours might be "just the blues." For me, learning that my 'craziness' had a treatable cause was a relief that it wasn't my fault that I couldn't "pull myself up by my bootstraps."
The good news is there are all kinds of methods to help, many already mentioned. Tho I hate the idea of exercise, finding some chore that allows physical destruction is always helpful -- like whacking weeds, crunching recyclables, etc.
The absolutely most helpful aid for lifelong good mental health is to trade our natural emphasis on the negative to a focus on the positive. When something bad happens, we just hafta repeat the gory details to everybody which builds up even bigger. Instead we need to put more emphasis on good stuff. Oprah calls it a gratitude journal, and a career counselor advised me to keep a daily journal of the good things that happen each day, even if sometimes the good thing is only that nothing bad happened. The key is that when you need to think of what to write down, your perception is altered because you're always looking for good things. And when you look for it, you find it!
Above all else, if the self-help techniques are effective enuf, do talk to a doctor. There are great meds that can help on the short or long term -- being 'crazy' isn't as bad as we used to think.
So now, have you thought of a 'good thing' yet (besides this msg)? There's lots of help just waiting for you to ask, just like you've already started. Remember to treat yourself as you would your best friend!
K8X
The good news is there are all kinds of methods to help, many already mentioned. Tho I hate the idea of exercise, finding some chore that allows physical destruction is always helpful -- like whacking weeds, crunching recyclables, etc.
The absolutely most helpful aid for lifelong good mental health is to trade our natural emphasis on the negative to a focus on the positive. When something bad happens, we just hafta repeat the gory details to everybody which builds up even bigger. Instead we need to put more emphasis on good stuff. Oprah calls it a gratitude journal, and a career counselor advised me to keep a daily journal of the good things that happen each day, even if sometimes the good thing is only that nothing bad happened. The key is that when you need to think of what to write down, your perception is altered because you're always looking for good things. And when you look for it, you find it!
Above all else, if the self-help techniques are effective enuf, do talk to a doctor. There are great meds that can help on the short or long term -- being 'crazy' isn't as bad as we used to think.
So now, have you thought of a 'good thing' yet (besides this msg)? There's lots of help just waiting for you to ask, just like you've already started. Remember to treat yourself as you would your best friend!
K8X
Ed (So. Calif)
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We have all been where you are at now. Events both in our control and beyond our control can make us feel powerless. Most have been successful in overcoming that feeling of being down and out. The others have provided some tools you can try. One other is the use of a help (or support) line. check your phone book. My wife has been a help line person before and says that your call will be anonymous so you can say what you really want to. Let me know how you do.....Ed
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