Covid-19 Community Support and Mental Wellness Thread

Soooo.... Not the greatest time to find a painful small hard lump in the neck that doesn't move around easily,
I'm barely coping as it is, smoking like a chimney 😢 I know it's my own fault, but I'm posting here because if it *is* the worst, I cannot have my (now distant family of 3) knowing, therefore my friends can't know either.
I don't really have anyone to tell 😞

Oh dear I just had a news flash that Prince Charles has got the virus 😕

a reply to: Hefficide

Such a commendable effort to put it all out there like that Heff, expression of ones inner most thoughts like you have is for me the sign of a well rounded individual who is in touch with their spiritualism, regardless of the frustration that self diagnosed failure ensures leading to doubt in oneself.

In relation to the community i feel the need to just accept whatever comes is for the most part paramount and an absolute necessity for mental health - we can self isolate, we can take all preventative steps but in reality we are at the mercy of a invisible invader. The trick/secret is to never let it take your spirit it may take your body if unfortunate enough to be exposed but never your spirit.

The mental breakdowns, panic, anxiety and stress for whatever reason a person overwhelmed justifies it is the taking of your spirit.

The cold hard facts are people die, loose their houses, jobs, cars, loved ones every day all over the world the only difference here is that it's happening collectively and concurrently and repetitively.

It will do what it does dont the rest of you give it your spirit also. The last thing we need when it is all over is a massive overwhelming group of mentally incapacitated individuals who lost their way.

I understand the intricacies of it all run deep but the solutions when all is stripped away you just read.

Peace to all, may we majorically survive intact to fight another day if need be.

originally posted by: CthruU
a reply to: Hefficide

Such a commendable effort to put it all out there like that Heff, expression of ones inner most thoughts like you have is for me the sign of a well rounded individual who is in touch with their spiritualism, regardless of the frustration that self diagnosed failure ensures leading to doubt in oneself.

In relation to the community i feel the need to just accept whatever comes is for the most part paramount and an absolute necessity for mental health - we can self isolate, we can take all preventative steps but in reality we are at the mercy of a invisible invader. The trick/secret is to never let it take your spirit it may take your body if unfortunate enough to be exposed but never your spirit.

The mental breakdowns, panic, anxiety and stress for whatever reason a person overwhelmed justifies it is the taking of your spirit.

The cold hard facts are people die, loose their houses, jobs, cars, loved ones every day all over the world the only difference here is that it's happening collectively and concurrently and repetitively.

It will do what it does dont the rest of you give it your spirit also. The last thing we need when it is all over is a massive overwhelming group of mentally incapacitated individuals who lost their way.

I understand the intricacies of it all run deep but the solutions when all is stripped away you just read.

Peace to all, may we majorically survive intact to fight another day if need be.

Also wise kind words 👍🏻

As an atheist, I'm not yet convinced there is such thing as a spirit. I do however believe that mindfulness and and practicing being in the present, offers nothing but benefits for the individual.

It's also hard to commit to when you're a mental😞.

originally posted by: FinallyAwake

originally posted by: CthruU
a reply to: Hefficide

Such a commendable effort to put it all out there like that Heff, expression of ones inner most thoughts like you have is for me the sign of a well rounded individual who is in touch with their spiritualism, regardless of the frustration that self diagnosed failure ensures leading to doubt in oneself.

In relation to the community i feel the need to just accept whatever comes is for the most part paramount and an absolute necessity for mental health - we can self isolate, we can take all preventative steps but in reality we are at the mercy of a invisible invader. The trick/secret is to never let it take your spirit it may take your body if unfortunate enough to be exposed but never your spirit.

The mental breakdowns, panic, anxiety and stress for whatever reason a person overwhelmed justifies it is the taking of your spirit.

The cold hard facts are people die, loose their houses, jobs, cars, loved ones every day all over the world the only difference here is that it's happening collectively and concurrently and repetitively.

It will do what it does dont the rest of you give it your spirit also. The last thing we need when it is all over is a massive overwhelming group of mentally incapacitated individuals who lost their way.

I understand the intricacies of it all run deep but the solutions when all is stripped away you just read.

Peace to all, may we majorically survive intact to fight another day if need be.

Also wise kind words 👍🏻

As an atheist, I'm not yet convinced there is such thing as a spirit. I do however believe that mindfulness and and practicing being in the present, offers nothing but benefits for the individual.

It's also hard to commit to when you're a mental😞.

Each to their own.

But just know -

Knowing your spirit is nothing to do with believing in god. Believing in god is religious, most religions if not all are not spiritual despite their distorted belief sets.

Killing in gods name, raping (priests), pedophilia (priests) i wont go on is hardly understanding anything let alone gods desires for humanity.

However understanding your spirit and correcting its path if need be has nothing to do with belief in god but often leads to a belief in god as a knock on effect.

What's hard to commit to? --- All you need to do is commit to being the most sincere and honorable individual you can be and your spirit will do the rest.

It really is that simple.

Theres nothing wrong with you, be who you ar, accept it and improve wherever you can no matter how small the steps.

Do that and your nothing less than a winner in the eyes of the only thing that matters - your spirit.

Never strive for acceptance from others - only for accepting yourself.

originally posted by: CthruU

originally posted by: FinallyAwake

originally posted by: CthruU
a reply to: Hefficide

Such a commendable effort to put it all out there like that Heff, expression of ones inner most thoughts like you have is for me the sign of a well rounded individual who is in touch with their spiritualism, regardless of the frustration that self diagnosed failure ensures leading to doubt in oneself.

In relation to the community i feel the need to just accept whatever comes is for the most part paramount and an absolute necessity for mental health - we can self isolate, we can take all preventative steps but in reality we are at the mercy of a invisible invader. The trick/secret is to never let it take your spirit it may take your body if unfortunate enough to be exposed but never your spirit.

The mental breakdowns, panic, anxiety and stress for whatever reason a person overwhelmed justifies it is the taking of your spirit.

The cold hard facts are people die, loose their houses, jobs, cars, loved ones every day all over the world the only difference here is that it's happening collectively and concurrently and repetitively.

It will do what it does dont the rest of you give it your spirit also. The last thing we need when it is all over is a massive overwhelming group of mentally incapacitated individuals who lost their way.

I understand the intricacies of it all run deep but the solutions when all is stripped away you just read.

Peace to all, may we majorically survive intact to fight another day if need be.

Also wise kind words 👍🏻

As an atheist, I'm not yet convinced there is such thing as a spirit. I do however believe that mindfulness and and practicing being in the present, offers nothing but benefits for the individual.

It's also hard to commit to when you're a mental😞.

Each to their own.

But just know -

Knowing your spirit is nothing to do with believing in god. Believing in god is religious, most religions if not all are not spiritual despite their distorted belief sets.

Killing in gods name, raping (priests), pedophilia (priests) i wont go on is hardly understanding anything let alone gods desires for humanity.

However understanding your spirit and correcting its path if need be has nothing to do with belief in god but often leads to a belief in god as a knock on effect.

What's hard to commit to? --- All you need to do is commit to being the most sincere and honorable individual you can be and your spirit will do the rest.

It really is that simple.

Theres nothing wrong with you, be who you ar, accept it and improve wherever you can no matter how small the steps.

Do that and your nothing less than a winner in the eyes of the only thing that matters - your spirit.

Never strive for acceptance from others - only for accepting yourself.

Even though these are more wise words, I have to say Wow, I'm glad to know there's nothing wrong with me 👍🏻😳

Also it sounds like you know too much about spirituality, and not enough about mental health.
Nothing is 'that simple' smh

originally posted by: FinallyAwake

originally posted by: CthruU

originally posted by: FinallyAwake

originally posted by: CthruU
a reply to: Hefficide

Such a commendable effort to put it all out there like that Heff, expression of ones inner most thoughts like you have is for me the sign of a well rounded individual who is in touch with their spiritualism, regardless of the frustration that self diagnosed failure ensures leading to doubt in oneself.

In relation to the community i feel the need to just accept whatever comes is for the most part paramount and an absolute necessity for mental health - we can self isolate, we can take all preventative steps but in reality we are at the mercy of a invisible invader. The trick/secret is to never let it take your spirit it may take your body if unfortunate enough to be exposed but never your spirit.

The mental breakdowns, panic, anxiety and stress for whatever reason a person overwhelmed justifies it is the taking of your spirit.

The cold hard facts are people die, loose their houses, jobs, cars, loved ones every day all over the world the only difference here is that it's happening collectively and concurrently and repetitively.

It will do what it does dont the rest of you give it your spirit also. The last thing we need when it is all over is a massive overwhelming group of mentally incapacitated individuals who lost their way.

I understand the intricacies of it all run deep but the solutions when all is stripped away you just read.

Peace to all, may we majorically survive intact to fight another day if need be.

Also wise kind words 👍🏻

As an atheist, I'm not yet convinced there is such thing as a spirit. I do however believe that mindfulness and and practicing being in the present, offers nothing but benefits for the individual.

It's also hard to commit to when you're a mental😞.

Each to their own.

But just know -

Knowing your spirit is nothing to do with believing in god. Believing in god is religious, most religions if not all are not spiritual despite their distorted belief sets.

Killing in gods name, raping (priests), pedophilia (priests) i wont go on is hardly understanding anything let alone gods desires for humanity.

However understanding your spirit and correcting its path if need be has nothing to do with belief in god but often leads to a belief in god as a knock on effect.

What's hard to commit to? --- All you need to do is commit to being the most sincere and honorable individual you can be and your spirit will do the rest.

It really is that simple.

Theres nothing wrong with you, be who you ar, accept it and improve wherever you can no matter how small the steps.

Do that and your nothing less than a winner in the eyes of the only thing that matters - your spirit.

Never strive for acceptance from others - only for accepting yourself.

Even though these are more wise words, I have to say Wow, I'm glad to know there's nothing wrong with me 👍🏻😳

Also it sounds like you know too much about spirituality, and not enough about mental health.
Nothing is 'that simple' smh

Coming from a violent home, watching a sibling enter psych wards 7 times involuntary for years i can assure you i know plenty about mental health.
Equally i know plenty about forgiveness in the pursuit of mental health. (A pre requisite to successful return from the depths of despair).

I also know when someone crosses the line and needs to be pulled back a peg or two and you just crossed that line with your assumption that im ignorant about mental health but hey I'll excersise that forgiveness anyhow as -

[snipped]

So you *personally* don't have any diagnosed mental health problems?

And there's lots of different types of mental health, just because you know a lot about your siblings mental health, does not mean you know plenty about mental health. You just know plenty about his. Otherwise you'd already know and understand that people who are very ill simply CANNOT just 'do things' like you say, and it is common knowledge that you never tell a depressed/anxious person to "snap out of it"
You didn't say that, but you DID MAKE AN ASSUMPTION and tell me that I am not ill.
This is where You crossed the line. 🙄

AND you assumed I was Bipolar!

You are by FAR the worst spiritual person I have ever met. Lol

originally posted by: FinallyAwake
So you *personally* don't have any diagnosed mental health problems?

And there's lots of different types of mental health, just because you know a lot about your siblings mental health, does not mean you know plenty about mental health. You just know plenty about his. Otherwise you'd already know and understand that people who are very ill simply CANNOT just 'do things' like you say, and it is common knowledge that you never tell a depressed/anxious person to "snap out of it"
You didn't say that, but you DID MAKE AN ASSUMPTION and tell me that I am not ill.
This is where You crossed the line. 🙄

Grow up your the one that said "its hard to commit to when your a mental"

Did you not????

And

There you go again bowing down to as you put it "common knowledge" - just because something is commonly thought to be a particular way doesn’t make it so in actuality to the truly AWAKE.

Fine believe your ill, let your spirit be overun with so called experts expert diagnosis continue down the path of a chemically altered brain thats fast becoming foreign to you.

Sorry for trying to instill some positive thinking and non self loathing thinking into your mindset.

And NO i dont personally have any diagnosed mental health diagnosis despite 8 psychologist and 3 psychiatrists over the last 40 years. All sought out by me in an endeavor to find out if im the problem or the vast majority of everyone else is.......Guess what - they say its not me im actually highly intelligent and functional according to them.......BUT.......As i said above - just because the so called experts diagnose a particular mindset doesn't mean their correct, in MHO they know nothing, nothing.

I think theres something wrong with me but there bodgy textbook learning cant offer them the knowledge to see it.

But anyway I'll bow out here i see I'm waisting my time.

originally posted by: CthruU

originally posted by: FinallyAwake
So you *personally* don't have any diagnosed mental health problems?

And there's lots of different types of mental health, just because you know a lot about your siblings mental health, does not mean you know plenty about mental health. You just know plenty about his. Otherwise you'd already know and understand that people who are very ill simply CANNOT just 'do things' like you say, and it is common knowledge that you never tell a depressed/anxious person to "snap out of it"
You didn't say that, but you DID MAKE AN ASSUMPTION and tell me that I am not ill.
This is where You crossed the line. 🙄

Grow up your the one that said "its hard to commit to when your a mental"

Did you not????

And

There you go again bowing down to as you put it "common knowledge" - just because something is commonly thought to be a particular way doesn’t make it so in actuality to the truly AWAKE.

Fine believe your ill, let your spirit be overun with so called experts expert diagnosis continue down the path of a chemically altered brain thats fast becoming foreign to you.

Sorry for trying to instill some positive thinking and non self loathing thinking into your mindset.

But anyway I'll bow out here i see I'm waisting my time.

Yes of course I said it's hard to commit if you're a mental (like me) A lot of people who suffer from mental illness find out hard to commit to ANYTHING.
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.

And agreed, you shouldn't really be in this thread. 👍🏻

I'm still alive and kicking and getting used to doing all my appointments/meetings and jam sessions online or by phone (Hi mom!).

The SO is also home for the duration. She is stressed about her friends who are being asked to work frontline ER/Pacu/ED shifts reusing their disposable PE for their entire shifts.

I'm really having a hard time now. Day 8. I am so damned lonely! I tried skyping with my father last night.
He never really answers much or keeps in touch, but I finally got him and my stepmom on for about five minutes.
But they were busy doing their yoga so said they didn't have time to chat.

I am starting to suddenly break out in tears once in a while, for no reason.

I don't know how I am going to make it through this.

a reply to: Bluesma

Are you able to go outside where you live? A walk? A visit to a shop? Anything like that?

originally posted by: Bluesma
I'm really having a hard time now. Day 8. I am so damned lonely! I tried skyping with my father last night.
He never really answers much or keeps in touch, but I finally got him and my stepmom on for about five minutes.
But they were busy doing their yoga so said they didn't have time to chat.

I am starting to suddenly break out in tears once in a while, for no reason.

I don't know how I am going to make it through this.

Hi Bluesma- Please hang in there, as you're not alone! I, too, live by mself in an apt with a cat (2, actually) and it's been an ordeal. I was a pet sitter before the virus hit and now I have no work.

What I've been doing is offering to help out my neighbors by walking their dogs for them. I also leave random uplifting or funny cards on doors in different buildings. We have a community website so we are helping each other out by posting funny meme or talking about our frustrations. Maybe you could try that, too.

I, too, break into tears for no reason but I feel it's a normal response to a life that has been altered due to the virus. After almost 2 weeks of dreary, stormy weather it is finally sunny and warm. This helps with my mood, too.

If there's anything I can do, send a PM. I think there's a reason for everything and you will come out a much stronger person for this!

Hugs!!

originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: Bluesma

Are you able to go outside where you live? A walk? A visit to a shop? Anything like that?

This is the truth.

One of kiddo's assignments was to go outside with the iPad, walk the neighborhood and take pictures and then photo collage them and send them back for social studies.

He and I took a long, rambling walk nearly out to the local Target which is over a mile away. It was gray and cold and sort of unpleasant, but it still felt good to get out and away for a while.

originally posted by: Bluesma
I'm really having a hard time now. Day 8. I am so damned lonely! I tried skyping with my father last night.
He never really answers much or keeps in touch, but I finally got him and my stepmom on for about five minutes.
But they were busy doing their yoga so said they didn't have time to chat.

I am starting to suddenly break out in tears once in a while, for no reason.

I don't know how I am going to make it through this.

You have us to chat with. And soon you will be able to go out again. Remember that this is only temporary!

a reply to: 0zzymand0s

Are they at least aware of salt masks?

Very clever..

@Bluesma If you need someone to talk with, Im here. A lot of us are

Been dealing with a "stay-at-home" thing for years and years. Its one thing when its a choice we make, but the moment it isnt.. Health issues for me before all this, quarantine for so many now.. It can make it so much tougher.

ETA: Oh! Just got an email from Neural DSP that they are giving an extra 14 days on expired trial licenses. For the geetar players out there..

originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: Bluesma

Are you able to go outside where you live? A walk? A visit to a shop? Anything like that?

I have to be working on the computer most of the day. Finally quit at 5:30 and walked around the block.
Streets empty. No more shops. Our grocery store closed up Monday. There' s just a pharmacy that stays open in my town.

I'll probably play hookey from work tomorrow for 20 minutes so I can go to the pharmacy while it's open and pretend I need something - just to see and speak to another human.

originally posted by: ketsuko

One of kiddo's assignments was to go outside with the iPad, walk the neighborhood and take pictures and then photo collage them and send them back for social studies.

He and I took a long, rambling walk nearly out to the local Target which is over a mile away. It was gray and cold and sort of unpleasant, but it still felt good to get out and away for a while.

Wow! We have to fill out papers declaring why we are going outside, and then we are limited in how far and how long - one kilometer and one hour is the maximum.

But I will try to do an hour tomorrow.

a reply to: Bluesma

Outside helps. Not long ago I went through a rough patch and my sanity came in the form of a cement bench next to a small pond in my backyard. Just getting outside, even for a few minutes, can really be beneficial.

originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: Bluesma

Outside helps. Not long ago I went through a rough patch and my sanity came in the form of a cement bench next to a small pond in my backyard. Just getting outside, even for a few minutes, can really be beneficial.

Yep, my yard. my garden. the birds and the flowers.

That's why I cannot wait for the warm weather!!!!