Sleepie's Testing Countdown Support Thread
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Georgia
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Hey Sleepie... I hope you get some sleep tonight, and I hope your anxiety is better.
I've settled into my bed island with one of my doggies snuggled into their own little bed island right next to me..
I've settled into my bed island with one of my doggies snuggled into their own little bed island right next to me..
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: middle of nowhere
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I'm thinking of you sleepie and sending you hugs 
You are a sweet and tender heart.
I'm sending thoughts of warm, healing sunshine your way.
You are so valuable to us and loved beyond measure here.
Take care my friend. Thinking of you
You are a sweet and tender heart.
I'm sending thoughts of warm, healing sunshine your way.
You are so valuable to us and loved beyond measure here.
Take care my friend. Thinking of you
Life Goes On
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posts: 6,069
Good. Bed Island til Tuesday, then.
It's no wonder your dander is up. I for one am quite certain we're on the cusp of something good.
Don't shoot me down when I'm feeling hopeful, now. xo
It's no wonder your dander is up. I for one am quite certain we're on the cusp of something good.
Don't shoot me down when I'm feeling hopeful, now. xo
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Sleepie I've been thinking of you today.
I was thinking of your anxiety and how I've been dealing with my own. I thought I'd share with you what has helped me... I have often been paralyzed by anxiety and even when sober became too afraid to leave my house or basement where I was living before.
I know we all have dealt with varying degrees of anxiety thanks to our addictions and I tried so many ways of dealing with it. First I had to put on mental blinders... basically walking forward and not looking back or around in my head because it was all too much to deal with at once. It worked for awhile.
Sometimes life just gets real and you have to see things for what they are.
And it's terrifying for me, at the moment. I build up already bad situations by starting from the past, grabbing some stuff from the here and now and piling onto it all the different horrible projections of the future. It's a huge, cacaphonous (sp?) crescendo that has often left me in a puddle in the corner with my hands clapped over my ears.
Too many of those led me to whatever list of bad decisions we can think of.
Have you ever played Mario Bros?
You know in bowsers castles when you're jumping over fiery lava and there are those big, angry, spiky looking blocks that crash down and try to squash Mario?
I started dropping those blocks on my hamster wheel of death thoughts and on my av as much as possible.
If I felt it starting up, and I knew I would do nothing to solve my worries by putting them on the wheel but not sure how to stop them, I'd just squash em flat with one of those big spiky concrete block thingys.
Splat! Hiya.
It's no long term solution... but it's been working well enough to keep me sane for a couple days now without sending me into blind panic. Until I can find some better long term coping skills.
Feel free to laugh
"Short term coping skills from the slightly deranged and chronically unique books"
When it doubt, squash it out.
And no... I haven't played Mario in years. Don't know where it came from or why I was driving down the road and thought I could borrow sleepie some mental block squashers to see if it helps? I suppose we'll never know.
Sleep well sleepie. Sending happy sunshine thoughts your way.
I was thinking of your anxiety and how I've been dealing with my own. I thought I'd share with you what has helped me... I have often been paralyzed by anxiety and even when sober became too afraid to leave my house or basement where I was living before.
I know we all have dealt with varying degrees of anxiety thanks to our addictions and I tried so many ways of dealing with it. First I had to put on mental blinders... basically walking forward and not looking back or around in my head because it was all too much to deal with at once. It worked for awhile.
Sometimes life just gets real and you have to see things for what they are.
And it's terrifying for me, at the moment. I build up already bad situations by starting from the past, grabbing some stuff from the here and now and piling onto it all the different horrible projections of the future. It's a huge, cacaphonous (sp?) crescendo that has often left me in a puddle in the corner with my hands clapped over my ears.
Too many of those led me to whatever list of bad decisions we can think of.
Have you ever played Mario Bros?
You know in bowsers castles when you're jumping over fiery lava and there are those big, angry, spiky looking blocks that crash down and try to squash Mario?
I started dropping those blocks on my hamster wheel of death thoughts and on my av as much as possible.
If I felt it starting up, and I knew I would do nothing to solve my worries by putting them on the wheel but not sure how to stop them, I'd just squash em flat with one of those big spiky concrete block thingys.
Splat! Hiya.
It's no long term solution... but it's been working well enough to keep me sane for a couple days now without sending me into blind panic. Until I can find some better long term coping skills.
Feel free to laugh
"Short term coping skills from the slightly deranged and chronically unique books"
When it doubt, squash it out.
And no... I haven't played Mario in years. Don't know where it came from or why I was driving down the road and thought I could borrow sleepie some mental block squashers to see if it helps? I suppose we'll never know.
Sleep well sleepie. Sending happy sunshine thoughts your way.
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