mallowcup

Everyone I know is in a funk, winter won't go away, college kids are getting shot, the price of gas is going up again, taxes went up, the war in Iraq is no closer to ending and we love/loved an alcoholic. How can you love anything or anyone these days and not be upset?

HolyQow

Don't watch the news.....it's too depressing.

(that's my skin UNDERNEATH alot of makeup )

My daughter got diabetes at age 6. My boys do not have it. She is now 14, and doing well with it. She got her pump last year, which has saved a million grey hairs for me. The mood swings is about all I have to deal with now-a-days, maybe that's just because she is a teenager...fun fun.

Yes I agree, alot of kids have it. Makes me wonder about what vaccinations really are.......

Hope you're doing better....I still believe in the sunshine cure.

embraced2000

thanks everyone, so much. i thought i was all alone in funksterville.

odd that i take some comfort in knowing that others are in a slump? don't quite mean it like that, of course, but at least i know i'm not alone out here.

wore out....just plum wore out. feeling like this really saps one, doesn't it?

good night all....hope you all have sweet sleep and sweeter dreams.

appleblaster

sometimes I swear i'm funkasarus rex and I can't break it for anything.

that's when I come here and read your funny, insightful posts.

Lots of love to you!!!

GlassPrisoner

Then Get The Funk Out !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixGBfTr21g

Me too, Embraced. I was tired, that was a lot of it. A meeting helped. Maybe you should go out & help another codie ?

Sunflower

let me take you to FUNKY TOWN!!!!! LOL

aztchr

Maybe you need another weekend road trip!?

ICU

You can usually tell when I'm in a funk....I get very 'quiet' around here.

Mine has been going on for about 3 weeks or so. I know what triggered it and why I'm reacting to it. I just can't seem to shake it. I'll give myself another week or so, and if doesn't subside by then, it might be time for me to call my counselor. Life is too short to feel this way for this long. But then again, maybe I 'shouldn't' put a time limit on it and just let it run it's natural course.

I just don't know....but what I do know is that you're obviously not alone. Maybe us folks at SR are all on the same recovery 'cycle'??? Oh, no, wait, there are men here too, so it can't be that!! LOL!!

lillian

you aren't alone embraced- i live in funky town. for me, there's a lot in what sunflower said earlier- now that husband is gone, there's no marriage- it's just me- and i am scrambling the walls to escape me any way i can, because my view of myself is dim these days. but ignoring isn't helping for some reason.... i put so much on him-- if he was happy with me, i was happy with me- and he usually was- so even if i wasn't living my life, or up to my potential, i had my "bottle" of some one loving me- and now that that's gone, i am really shaken up. BUT i have had one bad break up in the past- nothing like this- but i know then i thought i was awful, so no hope, wanted to lie in bed and die- but i got over it-- SLOWLY-- but i was better for it. so i am thinking that's going to happen this time, too-- one thing to get off my chest: i really want to make out with someone! i am a walking nut basket, and am not exactly exuding light and confidence, but it's pretty fun to have that energy, and it's been awhile. it seems like everyone has that something in their lives, but maybe it only looks that way in the magazines and in the movies. where are all the tabloid stories about how sexy it is that so and so is ALONE....

LGLG07

havent had a chance to read through this whole thread yet but wanted to respond to lillian .
its so funny how you say you really want to make out ! i have a friend whose husband came home from work one day and said 'im done , dont want to be a father or a husband anymore' and he left . their marriage , she thought , was good until that point .
shes says the same exact thing . she just yearns passion again , romance . knowing that someone is that into her that they can just make out all night !

Just thought Id share , you are not alone there !
now off to read the rest of this thread !
M

Zoey

Why did I never see anyone I wanted. I only wanted my A, but badly wanted that part.

I want and need someone to help me cry.

Sunflower

as you know I have remained single most of my life with the exception of 3 years and then I was 21 I am 49 now.
I almost got married in my 30s -a guy that loved me and was so good to me-I just couldn't love him back.
After years of working and rasing my son I was sure I would never know what is was to love again.
Then I met a man-a cop-I fell madly deeply in love with him-BIG TIME--it didn't work out and we walked away friends--but I remember looking up and saying''thank you god-for letting me know I can still feel this way""
At 43 when I became ill-I chalked it all up-no job-no friends-no money-alcoholic son--I went through a period of the darkest depression I have ever know. I prayed like you--god what is passion-where is the beauty?
And he showed me.
Opera(I hated it before)--true passion
Gem stones(I started collecting)--true beauty from nature.
On a bad day when I couldn't get out of bed and walk--Mom would prop me up on pillows and I would listen to the Opera
or she would give me my gemstone collection and I would marvel at their beauty.
Now I still find it there --but also in my floral garden--in my dogs eyes-the simplest things you can imagine.
I still have those bad days from time to time-
I still listen to the music-my AS put all bird feeders outside my windows and windchimes-and I learned how to chant and meditate--
Its all around you--passion-beauty-love
not just the kind between a man and a woman
it teaches you to love yourself
to know that if it is meant to be it will happen
and it won't be a question mark of sex vs. love
it will be sharing your soul with someone special...

MsGolightly

how beautiful, sunflower!

i agree... if it's meant to be, it'll be. otherwise, what we go through (alone or not) happens for a reason... maybe to teach us the value of ourselves and to prove to the world (and to us!) that we can be just as happy without having the drama of a relationship (whether alcoholics are involved or not!)

Sunflower

ITFM--once a year I go to the Ocean and ''baptise'' myself LOL--really thats what it feels like--I go in and say''I am still here""
I feel like its my visit to the spiritual side--kind of crazy huh???
Some people would look really nervouswhen I would put down my crutches and walk into the Ocean hahahahaha---but in the water everything moves like it supposed to so I feel whole....maybe I am just crazy!!!

MsGolightly

i wouldn't say you're crazy - just someone who appreciates being alive! nothing crazy about it!

hope3

Hi cheri, in funks ville huh, every year about this

time a get a spring fever, depression type funk come over me.

I know your funkster is anger related, but how a bout a comedy movie

day. Sometimes when I feel like that, i'll rent a bunch of my all time

favorites and watch them, lmao, and usually feel better....

Or, maybe make an appointment for massage therapy. Do something nice

for you. thats my vote.... ((((((((((((((cheri)))))))))))

hope3

hope3

P.S. son't mind the avatar, I'm playing a joke on

a friend..hope3

lilac

(((Hugs to ya !))) It'll get better.

mazey

Stinkin' weather had me! Better past couple days....sun out. and daughter doing ok. (it's still been a pain for her....which makes me "sick" for her)

aztchr

Embraced,
Are you feeling any better?