Personality Disorders Community Check-in: September 10th–September 16th
Hello, PD Support Community!
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💛 How has your week been so far?
🧡 What's something you've been doing for fun lately?
If you prefer not to answer these questions, feel free to say hello, ask for a hug, or share anything else that's on your mind. 💚
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@QuietMagic
Enjoying the rain each day. Best September I can remember.
@caringShoulder1357
Oh cool! Glad you're enjoying it--I'm not a huge fan of rain, so you can have mine 🙂
💛 How has your week been so far?
It's been a very long, emotionally draining week.
🧡 What's something you've been doing for fun lately?
Praying scrabble with family.
PS: Hugs welcomed. 😀❤️
@YourCaringConfidant
So sorry to hear that your week was a draining one for you. Sending you virtual Hugs 🤗! And I hope things get better for you.
I’m so glad that you were able to find some enjoyment through playing Scrabble with your family! (I don’t think I’d be very good at that game)?!! 😂 Though I’ve often wondered?!
I hope you Have a great weekend ahead. 💕
@PoliteOcean Yayy, thanks for the hug! 🤗
@YourCaringConfidant
Aw, sorry that it's been a draining week 💜 (I love Scrabble)
@QuietMagic
💛 How has your week been so far? My week has been good so far, but a bit busy! Tried to donate plasma two days in a row and was able to donate today.
🧡 What's something you've been doing for fun lately? I have been playing Fall Guys and Fortnite with friends on and off Twitch streams.
I have a potential job offer from an Applied Behavior Analysis job, as a behavior analyst for kids. I also had an interview for a hospitality position (Patient Specialist II) at a government funded hospital.
Been applying for jobs and making doctor's appointments for podiatry (chronic foot pain/pain flare-ups from sprains, dentist appointment free exam, specialized trauma counseling, etc.).
I have been dating my boyfriend for about two weeks, we met on Twitch about a year ago and became best friends early this year. His name is Todd, he is 7 years older than me, and he lives on the east coast while I live in the southern U.S.
If you prefer not to answer these questions, feel free to say hello, ask for a hug, or share anything else that's on your mind. 💚
@peacefulvibes96 Best of luck to you with future employment opportunities, your personal life, and your new relationship! :)
@peacefulvibes96
@peacefulvibes96
That's really nice of you to be donating plasma 💜 I've never played those two games myself but have watched lots of other people play both of them and they seem really fun.
That sounds like a very eventful few weeks! Congrats on the relationship and the job offer. Do you have a preference between the behavior analyst position and the hospitality position (if you got offered the second one also)?
@QuietMagic
💛 How has your week been so far?… Slightly busy, but Overall it’s been pretty well... Enjoyed the long Labor Day Holiday weekend here that started off the week. And Now looking forward to ending it on a quiet note & relaxing for the weekend ahead.~
🧡 What's something you've been doing for fun lately?… Summer Traveling & Beaching; Spending quality time with family; (& ZUMBA! Always a good Zumba class)~ 💃
@PoliteOcean Awww, you've clearly had a blast and are enjoying yourself. I love that for you. The weekend is almost here, yayyy! I hope it's exactly how you hope it to be. :) Stay blessed. Xoxo.
@YourCaringConfidant
Awww! You’re so very sweet. 😊 Thank you so much! And YESSS, YAAYYYY for weekends!!! I hope you enjoy every moment of it!
Sending many blessing right back your way 💕
@PoliteOcean
Yeah, I definitely appreciated having the day off for Labor Day also 🙂 Is Zumba usually the same core group of people attending classes, or is it completely new people each time?
@QuietMagic
As far as Zumba class, I find that it’s typically the usual group of those that enjoy its experience. And have been doing it for years!
However… I also find that with each class (or every so often), that a new person or even a small group will come & join in that either may be brand new to it, or may have taken it a few times in the past and just trying to get back into moving their bodies again while doing something they’ve enjoyed before.
I’ve personally been doing it for the past 16 yrs. It’s my favorite way to “move” while also having fun! 🙂 💃
@PoliteOcean
16 years is a long time! And that sounds like it mixes together a lot of good things (having fun, physical fitness, friendships with long-term classmates with shared interest/activity, meeting new people)
@QuietMagic
Exactly!
It’s exactly All of those things.. And once I discovered Zumba classes, all of those things, perks, benefits came with it for me.~
@QuietMagic
This week I'm just in need of a kind word or two 😔💚
@Amanda84 Sure thing, my lovely queen pig. (I'm on laptop and too lazy to search emojis so just imagine it's in my usual emojis. Lol.)
1. You're a beautiful person.
2. You're sweet.
3. Your family and friends are blessed to have you.
4. You bring so much joy to people (and me) here on 7 Cups.
5. Love you. <3
@YourCaringConfidant
@YourCaringConfidant
That's a great list 💜
@Amanda84
I hope this day brings you all the “Positive, Feel good vibes” that you can handle! 💕
@PoliteOcean
@Amanda84
This is reality as I've known it for the past two years 🙂 And that's only what I see in the narrow set of communities that I pay attention to. I have no doubt that your IRL situation is very similar and you're Atlas carrying the globe there as well. I hope AI figures out how to clone you
@QuietMagic
Ah that actually made me so emotional, to have someone recognise the effort I put in, thank you so so much 🩷
@Amanda84
💜💜💜
@QuietMagic
My week has been quite busy the time just seems to be going so quickly that you just can't get anything done.
Things I have done for fun this week is spending time in nature and doing some gardening and some gaming.
@Harmony8682
Hello! 💜 Glad you were able to find some time for the fun activities with everything else going on.
With the time going by quickly, is it kind of like you have 20 things to do and only finish 3 of them and you end up with still "17 things incomplete"? Or more like the things you want to do take a long time so even if you work on something for a while (and make some progress on it), you don't finish it and end up with "0 things completed" despite the effort?
It's more of the first one as I have loads of things to do on my to do list and then on Sunday you still have things left over which roll into the next week. As 1 hour feels like half an hour now adays it feels like you have to work twice as fast and then you don't get much down time. I don't really like having lots of things left over as I just think about having to do more jobs when I would rather chillout.
@Harmony8682
Yeah, that's tough balancing those two poles of wanting to clear the to-do list but also needing a certain baseline amount of relaxation/peace where you're able to do things you actually enjoy.
Can also relate to what you said where if you have outstanding to-do list items, even if you're not working on them, you can't fully enjoy your free time knowing that they're haunting you in the background. 🥲
I feel like the way I tend to get things done is that my energy/motivation fluctuates and I try to time my bursts of effort with when I actually feel like doing work. Some days I feel like I can't do anything, and other days I feel 3x more productive than usual and I'll blitz through a week's worth of tasks in a few hours. (But I've also talked with people who are the complete opposite and they're steady/disciplined and chip away at things daily.)
Have also sometimes benefited from listing everything I need to do, estimating how long each task will take, and prioritizing (e.g. easiest/quickest tasks first) and just consciously committing to a strategy for how to split up the work across days.