Self-Harm Recovery Daily Check-In: Monday, May 18th, 2020
Happy Monday everyone, I wish you all an amazing week and Ill be looking forward to reading and hearing from you all!
1) How are you feeling?
2) What are your plans/goals/focuses this week?
3) Is there something youve been struggling with lately? On the other side, what is one recent victory youve had?
4) What are some totally useless yet fun/interesting fact you know of? (for example: with the total amount of iron in your body you can make a small nail, or: supernovae produce oxygen when collapsing so were breathing star stuff!)
Feel free to share anything else in your mind!
Take good care of your amazing selves, stay safe <3
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@LinearWaves
1) How are you feeling?
I am feeling okay
2) What are your plans/goals/focuses this week?
I want to work out every day this week
3) Is there something youve been struggling with lately? On the other side, what is one recent victory youve had?
I have been feeling more anxious about taking AP bio next school year. I also worked out yesterday
4) What are some totally useless yet fun/interesting fact you know of?
In Switzerland is it illegal to own one guinea pig
@PurpleSnail
Hey there ! Its good to hear youre feeling okay!
Working out every day sounds like a cool goal! Do you plan on varying the muscle groups or activities though, so as to handle the whole week without too much soreness or injury?
Choosing APs can definitely bring anxiety… Is there something specific about it making you anxious, if you dont mind me asking?
Yay for working out! And wow, I had no idea about guinea pigs in Switzerland, thanks for sharing and for letting us know how you are doing, always a pleasure to hear from you! Take care!
@LinearWaves
1) How are you feeling?
Calm right now, this morning i was feeling really down
2) What are your plans/goals/focuses this week?
Try to lower my carb intake
3) Is there something youve been struggling with lately? On the other side, what is one recent victoryyouve had?
Extremely negative feelings
This morning when I felt down, I was able to call people to talk about it with
4) What are some totally useless yet fun/interesting fact you know of?
That on average, others have longer tongues, 10 cm, than humans, 8 cm
@Madaraismyspiritanimal
Hey there!
It
@LinearWaves
Yes the rest of my day went pretty smoothly
I'm trying to switch from foods like pasta, to lentils and quinoa
@Madaraismyspiritanimal
Good luck with that! There are lots of Indian-like recipes with lentils (the coral ones) if that's something you're into :)
Have a good day!
@LinearWaves
@LinearWaves
1) How are you feeling?
I'm ok. I have done some stupid shit today, like fasting for 24h, but I got my ED triggered, so I couldn't really help myself. And I have had an ok day, I'm just really frustrated that I haven't been able to go outside today, bc it has been raining cats and dogs all day and has been very windy too. And as I don't have rain-gear, I couldn't go for my bikeride or even just a walk. I need to buy myself some rain-gear now, no matter the price I need it. Bc I am really sad about not being able to go outside and workout that way, and that may be what triggered my ED and why I fasted for such a long time 
But otherwise I'm ok. It's not my best day, but I'm ok and I know tomorrow will be better. Even if it's still raining like crazy, I will go for a short walk, bc it improves my mood and then a hot shower, so I don't get sick.
2) What are your plans/goals/focuses this week?
I wanna take it easy on myself this week, workout-vise, as I'm on my period and I have really bad cramps. So Imma say a walk or a bikeride a day, unless the cramps are too bad. Doing yoga every third to fourth day.
But I am focusing on what I'm eating this week, as always, so I don't overeat or anything like that.
My new therapist is coming to my place for the first time, and I am seeing her for the first time on wednesday, so I'm kinda looking forward to that. I don't know how it's gonna be, but I really have to try to not get closed off and not talk to her. Mostly bc I tend to do that, and I have to talk to her to feel better. I know that. I also have a talk with my mentor on wednesday, and I guess we will be talking about self harm and my ED again. She is really trying to help me, even though it most days seems hopeless :3
3) Is there something youve been struggling with lately? On the other side, what is one recent victory youve had?
Struggling with keeping my spirit up, has been one struggle. Mostly bc I couldn't go out today, and that makes me kinda depressed. One good thing is... I don't know, not a lot of good stuff happened to me today xD
OH! I totally forgot! I finally have my newest novel planned out (with chapter descriptions and everything), and I will, tomorrow be able to start writing, like for real. I'm very happy about that 
4) What are some totally useless yet fun/interesting fact you know of?
I have heard that if a turkey looks up while it's raining, it can't look down again, and it will dr*wn.
@EvilRegalsReadToo
Hey there ! Its good to hear youre ok, besides having your ED triggered. The good part about it though is that you were able to identify what likely triggered you (not being able to go out and workout due to rain) and that is something youll be able to work on with rain clothes! Its also really good that youre keeping a positive mindset and reminding yourself that okay, it might not be the best day, but youre still ok and theres tomorrow anyway, very inspiring mindset!
These sound like great goals, to focus on not working out too much and on eating. It also sounds great that your therapist will be coming to your place, hopefully by being in your environment it might help opening up more easily! As for your mentor, I know recovery might look hopeless some days, but thats just when youre looking at it day by day, recovery is about the big picture, not just one day, youre doing amazing work and that pays off in the big picture!
Its totally amazing that you got your newest novel all planned out! It sounds to be tough work to do that planning part, is it?
I had to look it up haha I was way too curious about that turkey fact, unfortunately, or fortunately for the turkey, its not true, I didnt quite catch the explanation but yeah no drowning, cool fact though! Thanks for sharing and for checking in, I hope the weather improves so you can go freely on bikerides!
@LinearWaves
Hi linear <3 hope you're having a good day and thank you for checking in today hehe.
1) How are you feeling?
Really stressed out honestly! My to-do list just keeps growing and growing. And the stress used to motivate me to hustle more and do more in general but today it's just making me want to crawl up in a blanket burrito and cry :(
2) What are your plans/goals/focuses this week?
I have a lot of mental health projects to do :D for school and outside of school since it's the month of May. I'm doing an IG project along with submitting an essay about mental health for a contest and other stuff for the month of May.. hehe. And my goal this week is to meditate 3 times a day for 15 minutes each! Headspace, the meditation app, is offering a year-long free subscription to those who live in my area and I'm really going to take advantage of it xD
3) Is there something youve been struggling with lately? On the other side, what is one recent victory youve had?
Challenge: Really struggling with asking for help with things I know I need help with. Also really struggling to reply to texts.. it's a weird unexplainable thing but my hand just hovers over opening a message and I just can't bring myself to respond for some odd reason.
Accomplishment/victory: I've been meditating a lot more and doing yoga :)
4) What are some totally useless yet fun/interesting fact you know of? (for example: with the total amount of iron in your body you can make a small nail, or: supernovae produce oxygen when collapsing so were breathing star stuff!)
Something I learned today was that the center of the world is from your cornea :o both mathematically and scientifically proven :P also pretty inspiring because that means we all get to view and see the world in a different way
@TheAtticusFinch
Hey there!
The day was pretty good thanks for asking, first day back to work in a long time!
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@LinearWaves
Thanks for checking back in Linear <3 it's always great to hear from you. Meditation is indeed as awesome as splitting my to do list into smaller tasks and sub tasks. I actually did some digging and I couldn't find an article, but I got it from the podcast "Dear Hank and John" Episode: The construction of the paper diploma. :)
@TheAtticusFinch
Thanks for sharing! I checked it out and the view they had on it was quite interesting! Take care!
1) How are you feeling? Not to good, I dreamt my best friend shot himself and that the others had given up too. It scared me.
2) What are your plans/goals/focuses this week? Get some writing done.
3) Is there something you
@GoblinBoyQ
Hey there ! Im sorry to hear about that dream, I can imagine how scared it made you feel to dream about that… Hopefully youre feeling better now? Whenever I have these kinds of dreams I feel quite stressed until Im able to see that my friend is okay, I hope you were able to him!
Im proud of you for this victory of talking to your therapists! As for social anxiety and making conversation, Im not too good either, I do find that random things like these fun/useless facts can be quite helpful as conversation starters sometimes though, at least thats how I use them!
Good luck with your writing, I hope you were able to catch some rest without any terrible dream, take care and thanks for checking in!