Dealing with tough situations
Navigating through tough times can be challenging, but there are strategies that can help you cope and find strength.
What was the hardest thing you ever had to undertake in your life?
Without becoming too specific, how did you handle the situation? What helped?
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@amiablePeace77
I had to learn how to walk again which took alot of resilience and inner strength and family support.
I also went through a long period of grief, where I lost ten family members on my father's side and five on my mother's side, it was a very exhausting, surreal and lonely time.
Faith got me through and taking one day at a time 💚
@Amanda84
You're so strong! ❤️
@trueconfidant123
Thank you kindly 🩵 🤗
@Amanda84
You have endured such an incredibly painful and harrowing experience! 💙 I'm glad that faith helped you to get through!
@amiablePeace77
Thank you kindly 🩷🤗
@amiablePeace77
What was the hardest thing you ever had to undertake in your life?
Losing a loved one
Without becoming too specific, how did you handle the situation? What helped?
Time heals
@trueconfidant123
@trueconfidant123
Losing a loved one is hard! 🫂
@amiablePeace77
What was the hardest thing you ever had to undertake in your life?
Living an isolated life/being alone in the sense of not having any friends (in the non digital real world I mean), being in a negative environment with people (family members) who are unsupportive, don’t believe I’m smart or capable of doing anything by myself despite the fact they’ve already seen me doing things on my own, racism.
Without becoming too specific, how did you handle the situation? What helped?
Journaling, writing songs about it, telling/reminding myself to only care about what I believe about myself bc no one else knows me more than I do.
@akunknown
@Amanda84
Thank you! Hugs back to you my friend ❤️
@akunknown
You've experienced the very rough side of life; I hope things are much better now. Not giving in but continuing to make an effort to create a good life shows great strength! I'm glad you have coping tools that help. 💙
@amiablePeace77
Thanks so much! That means a lot to me my friend ❤️
@amiablePeace77
I lost a loved one in a very traumatic way.
I went to a psychiatrist.
@purpleTree4652
@amiablePeace77
losing my family. but it's then that I found strength within me.
@Jewelmoon17
Losing your family can shake our whole existence but it can also bring our strengths we never thoughts they exist in us.
@amiablePeace77
What was the hardest thing you ever had to undertake in your life?
Wetting myself in class in front of all my classmates as a young boy after repeatedly being denied permission to go to the toilets and subsequently being the subject of constant teasing
Without becoming too specific, how did you handle the situation? What helped?
Withdrew myself and explored my own coping mechanism, I didn't think anyone out there was kind enough to help without judging. Long story short, I still wear ladies underwear to comfort myself
I know, people would ask why not men's briefs which are similar, but there's just something about the feeling of wearing women's undies that brings me a certain comfort.
@Jeremiah29v11
This was a traumatic experience! I'm so sorry to hear that you had to go through this and can't even imagine that someone denies another person, especially a young person, the meeting of their needs!
It's good that you found ways to make yourself feel better!
@amiablePeace77
Peace be with you andnthank you for you gentle words. It helps to have someone read what i shared and reach out with words, makes it feel like it was worth penning down a little part of me for the world to read.
@amiablePeace77
What was the hardest thing you ever had to undertake in your life?
The first one must have been deciding to return to work when the kids started school. I had noticed a change in their behaviour (attitude!); realized my husband was "seeing" other women and that if I could get house help, it would have to be a young man, as a woman might be molested. I decided to leave work and that was sad.
A few years later, my husband died and taking over all the paperwork was quite hard, particularly having to take new decisions about all this. Widows are caught between grief and worries.
Without becoming too specific, how did you handle the situation? What helped?
I hired a lawyer to get me through. Friends, particularly from my church, and family (my step kids and their mother) visited often. A decision was made to become a professional musician in order to be around at home and not leave the kids alone.
@Fradiga
As a widow, one needs time to grieve, but sadly, they often are caught up in worrying about how things can be arranged in the future so that everyone is safe. You showed amazing strength in finding ways to deal with those tough challenges! I'm glad you had support and also could hire a lawyer!
@amiablePeace77
Thank you! My late husband was also an attorney 😀
I am going through a tough financial phase of joblessness. Trying to cope up and stay positive.
@Taim90
Financial pressure can be super stressful. Hope you find a job soon and life gets much easier.
Difficult situation: Expressing my feelings for a friend, them being uncomfortable, expressing them again much later as it wasn't resolved for me and the entirety of our friendship being seen as an obsessive manipulation.
Dealing with it: Struggling. Other friends. Trying to understand there can be completely different perspectives on the same situation.
@tealtortoise
This must have been complicated for both of you. I agree that there can be different perspectives on the same situation, something good to remind ourselves of at times.
@amiablePeace77
One of the hardest things I’ve had to go through was letting go of someone I deeply cared about.
It wasn’t easy, but I learned to face my emotions instead of avoiding them.
What helped me was giving myself time, being patient with my healing, and slowly learning to choose myself again.
@tingtingxin
I'm glad to hear that at the end you chose yourself again!