Personality Disorders Community Check-in: April 3rd–April 9th
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💜 How has your week been?
💜 Have you been able to successfully handle any challenging situations lately?
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How has my week been?
It has been worse than I thought lol depression hit out of no where and I’m trying to ride the wave for now. Been napping so much and not accomplishing much and I don’t like it but I rather just sleep.
Have you been able to successfully handle any challenging situations lately?
I guess going thru no contact. It’s officially happening and I’m depressed but better than relapsing or crashing out. I’m hungry to get better so I’ll fall asleep watching informative videos to help improve and better myself for my healing journey. I know doesn’t sound like much but I wanna get better and I’m slowly, I mean very slowly doing it. I’ve been through bad times like now. I’ll get through this too 🫡
@Priscella
Oh, sorry. 💜 Yeah, I guess riding the wave in this case means having the mindset of, "I'm sleeping a lot and not accomplishing much right now, but that makes sense given that depression has knocked me out. This is a difficult time, and that's what I feel like doing right now, so will let that happen for a little while and wait and see how things feel rather than trying to force things to happen."
Ah, the no contact is what's triggering that. Is that something you initiated, or did they? (From what you shared about relapsing/crashing out, I'm guessing you decided to do it--because otherwise you'd be in contact with them, bad things would happen, and things would feel even worse? Apologies if I guessed wrong, haha.)
Actually he initiated it but it gave me that boost to not keep in contact if he ever decided to try again ( which he did try to call me at 2 am) so officially 1 week no contact I needed this for myself 💪🏻
@Priscella
Makes sense 😊
Him: I won't contact you
You: Okay, I was thinking about doing that myself, so we'll roll with it
Him: Wait, I changed my mind
You: Nope, we're locked in
YES! exactly! 🤷🏻♀️😂
@QuietMagic
Our week been crazy we spent 6 days without power and no heat. We live in Northern Michigan so still very cold here a lot of the time. So 6 days without heat was very bad. We not leave our cat alone in dark. She scared of the dark and other things was abused in shelter before we got her. So we had to do lots of work with her to get her to trust us. We really not wanted her to suffer so stayed in apartment with her.
Was due to nasty very bad ice storm and that hit us hard were we live. They saying we was hardest hit area. It affected all the great lake stated and part of Canada that in great lake area too.
We got power back on but no internet. We not use to posting and chatting from our phone. So we having issues replying to posts to us.
So your question 2nd one we say we handling them well. Dealing with them as they come up. We lost 2 trash bags full of food. But we found away to get some for now and we found out one place will help with money to replace lost food. They sending us form in mail. So yes we are freaked out and have anxiety over it all. But even in that we finding the help we need with basic needs.
But hope internet get fixed soon. Was damaged to the underline cables due to to rain in ground and freezing. In same day we had rain ice and snow. So trees destroyed branch all over too.
Some had trees fall on their homes too. So it a mess but so many take things for grant like heat cooked warm meals and lights. Even things like running water but at any time could lose that all.
@stormieandpaws
Wow! That sounds like a really disruptive situation. I'm glad you have power and heat(!) back and were able to get some help with food. And that was really thoughtful to take such good care of your cat, though it also sounds like it was a lot of work.
Hopefully now that the power is back on they can start working on the internet issues? I also find it a lot more difficult to use 7 Cups on a phone.
I didn't realize it was still that cold/snowy/icy up in Michigan! I'm on the East Coast and it's been in the 70s-80s here until the temperature started dropping again lately. (It's so refreshing being able to use Fahrenheit. 😅 Most of the people I talk to on here are from sensible countries that use the metric system, lol.)
@QuietMagic
thank you we got internet back this afternoon and did get help with food. also found out if we fill out a form get back by 17th. that DHHS will give credit on food card for food lost in power outage. so that good news too. our cat finely not glued to us. yes hard taking care of her but she taken care of us so much. even saved our life few times when woke us up then we had medical stuff going on that would have end our life if she not woke us up. to us our cat like our child in many ways. so we take care of her as we would a child.
we feel very blessed as far as we know no one got hurt in or after ice storm. some houses did and trees and some other things. but they can be replaced people can not be.
@stormieandpaws
😮 That's helpful of DHHS to reimburse for food costs. Glad your cat feels safe now and that there were no serious injuries. And yup, pets are certainly family.
@QuietMagic
hi magic. Sorry not been so active.
the week has been intense. So much happening and so much responsibility it’s hard to define elements.
one thing that hurt and was difficult to deal with that actually is hard to forget is the inability to share publicly my daily journal. Reason being they now want a verified phone number. Initially… and for a while, didn’t quite cope well with it. I can post here . Wanna share a new aspect of daily journal community. Oh no no no..
the reasoning behind such requirements being explained clearly by Sophia’s eased it significantly. But pushing someone over the edge and then ignoring them until this kind person is not nice.
secondly it’s really beginning to be a very prolonged state of 4hrs sleep going on weeks now.. not great. Seeing things is welcomed with such sleep deprivation. Seeing the red stuff we oxygenate our organs with over something I’m holding while driving is a new one.
really though grand scheme of things they are going really well even if trying and demanding. Spur of the moment like booked yesterday, off to Disney world Friday till Monday with the kids and their dad.
3 holiday in a month and a half. Is it sad I am most looking forward to this one. Staying at pepper Pig world, then eftling and now Disney land for days …
it actually feels good to be so spontaneous and just do it again after a period of mundane recluse
@LabeledBPD
Hello! No requirement to be active or do anything, but good to see you. 💜
Ah, so there's a site you were previously using to share your journal but they added new requirements that weren't there before? (And I guess they weren't willing to budge on that, but at least they tried to justify why things were the way they were.)
"red stuff we oxygenate our organs with" is a pretty creative phrase 😊
Is the 4 hours of sleep for weeks at a time thing fixable?
Hope that Disney World is fun, and makes sense that it feels good to be able to do things after not doing things for a while. (Also, I didn't know that there was a Peppa Pig World, lol.)
