Originally Posted by
patricia68 
Thank you Silly. I'm staying close to SR. I feel overwhelmed, like I want to run away but I don't even know where. I have no where else to go.
Hugs to you, Patricia! Oh boy, do I understand the feeling of just wanting to run.
One of my biggest struggles is learning to be alone with myself, without my brain going off in a zillion different directions, all of them negative. I am trying to stay focused on the hour I am in. In this hour, I am posting to SR. I try not to buy into thoughts that look at yesterday or tomorrow (one is tragedy, the other is terror). Even later today is off limits. I am not good at it, but it is helping anyway.
It is working better than trying to find distractions from all the negative thoughts. Recent research shows that we really cannot control our thoughts, but we can disengage from them, refuse to fuse with them. It reminds me a little of meditation, just watching the thoughts go by.
Might something like that help you feel less overwhelmed?