Personality Disorders Community Check-in: July 8th–July 14th
Hello, PD Support Community!
I hope your July has been lovely far. 🌺 Sending best wishes and happy thoughts your way—I admire your strength and I know you've got what it takes to get through anything.
🍭 How was your week? How do you feel?
🍭 If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?
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@SilverSeastar
Hi, Seastar,
1. How was your week? How do you feel? My week started with my bathroom flooding twice and my kitchen once. Then it ended working with the most woman at Goodwill. It was bad.
2. If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?
Play the biggest lottery
@purpleTree4652
Hello, Tree 💕
Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear your week started out this way 😕 That does sound bad. I hope the rest of the week will be kinder and it will all turn out okay.
Winning the lottery—great answer, Tree! I wonder what you could do with the prize 😊
Hello! My week was good, just busy! If I knew I would not fail, I would go to Hollywood and try acting. I loved doing theatre.
@learningtolovemyself
Hi! Glad to hear you had a good week 😊 I hope you've been able to rest well too.
Acting in Hollywood sounds amazing! I really admire theatre performers and their confidence. That must be a lot of fun 🌟
@SilverSeastar
🌞 How was your week? ......It went well... Sunny, pool-time, swimming, light travel, movies.
🌴 If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?.....I would suppose the only answer to this question would be "Anything". .....Think about it... if we knew that we would succeed at everything we did, then we'd do "Anything" & everything knowing that we wouldn't fail.
@PoliteOcean
Heya, Ocean 🌊
Woww your week sounds fabulous 💫 I hope you had so much fun!
Yesss, exactly, you got it! 😛 We could do anything at all and feel comforted when we know we would come out of it okay no matter what.
@SilverSeastar
🍭 How was your week? How do you feel?
It was a great week, honestly. I had a couple of flare-ups, but my husband and I worked together through them and the week was overall very enjoyable. I really needed it. I hadn't felt that good in a long time.
🍭 If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?
I would finally begin learning how to tattoo, and I would apply for an apartment that I am unsure if I would otherwise qualify for.
@toucans
Hi, Toucans. I'm glad to hear you had an enjoyable week! 😊 It's amazing that you and your husband had each other, and you worked together to overcome the challenges that week. Yayy! 💫
Learning how to tattoo sounds like so much fun! And for sure, it would make life easier if we could remove the uncertainty from difficult things we would like to do, right? 😮
@silverseastar
- intense and crazy. Can’t believe I’m 30 now(july14). I has a meltdown at work. Pretty sure I split which caused the meltdown.
- if I knew I couldn’t fail sit down and finish my school work (college)
@SP2022sass
Happy belated birthday! I wish you all the best 🌟
I'm so sorry to hear about the meltdown at work, it must've been unpleasant for you. 😕 Splitting is part of the disorder, it could be a defense mechanism that we resort to when we feel defenseless. I feel you and I understand it's not easy to work through. Sending you lots of love, I believe in you 💙
Hmm I can relate. Sitting down and finishing college work can be heavy and intimidating. I think it would feel awesome if we could believe everything would turn out fine in the end.
🍭 How was your week? How do you feel?
Woozy. Watched something that triggered me last saturday, had a headache since (has now largely rescinded). Feel better but dizzy. Not great, not terrible
🍭 If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?
May sound benign but: work! Haven't been able to work for a number of years, hoping to start again soon.
@KittyKeats
Hello, KittyKeats.
Oh no, that sounded bad 🙁 Unfortunately triggering topics can't always be anticipated, and it feels terrible. I hope you've been feeling better. 💗
That's a great answer! I think I would go with that as my answer too. Work can be really fulfilling and I imagine it would be cool if you always succeeded in it. All the best to you! 🌟