Traumatic Experiences Community Daily Check-In: January 27th, 2020
Good Morning To Our Trauma Community!
Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great day so far. Please feel free to answer the following:
1. How are you feeling emotionally today?
2. Is there anything bothering or upsetting you?
3. How did your weekend go?
Stay Beautiful!
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1. How are you feeling emotionally today?
Ok I guess. It was little rough in the afternoon
2. Is there anything bothering or upsetting you?
Not at the moment
3. How did your weekend go?
Good :)
@AlexFox800 Hi there! I'm sorry about your afternoon being a little rough but it's great to know that nothing is bothering you or upsetting you at the moment! Doesn't it feel wonderful to have a good weekend?! I hope it was relaxing for you! Thank you for checking in and have a beautiful day!
Hello
my week has been painful, yet busy
I am ok today. thanks for asking
Going to PT today
@scarletPear1945 Hi there my friend! I'm really sorry to hear that your week has been paniful. It makes me sad to know that you are hurting and I hope physical therapy went well for you and I hope it's helping you feel better. I love your positive spirit about it though so keep that up! Thank you for checcking in and have a beautiful day!
@PeppermintStar0912
@scarletPear1945 
Hi. I subscribed to trauma community long ago, but never posted. I was never sure if I could say that I really went through some kind of trauma, but especially lately I'm starting to think more than ever that trauma is the only thing that would explain the severity of how my life is affected by my mental health. I'm not comfortable sharing much about my "story" because I feel like it's not enough to justify how I'm feeling, and it looks like even according to others around me it's not enough and I am made to feel weak or like I choose to be in this state. And I tend to believe them because I have huge self trust issues, especially about what I feel. I always think that it looks severe just because I'm not strong enough to react and function, but actually I bet everyone feels like me. They're just stronger and do their things anyway.
How did this week go? Not great. It's been half a wake up call though. I'm not so sure that everyone has their entire body aching for anxiety and moments where they have to cover their ears and flee the room because every little sound has become so loud and scary that it hurts and feels absolutely unbearable. I mean, it IS unbearable, I don't think it's possible for anyone to stand there and be cheerful or fake calm if they're experiencing that. So maybe not everyone feels like me, it's not normal, it's not just me being weak
@GhostlyLilian Hi there! Thank you for subscribing to our community! We appreciate it. I'm sorry that you have experienced trauma, I wish that this didn't happen to people. Don't let others try and tell you that what you are feeling or what you have been through isn't real or it wasn't traumatic enough. Trauma is trauma and it comes in many forms. I'm sorry that you don't get the support and validation that you deserve from those around you. I'm glad that you are realzing that it isn't just you being weak. Thank you for reaching out and sharing this with me. Feel free to participate in our daily check-ins! They can be very helpful. Have a beautiful day!
@PeppermintStar0912
Thanks for the warm welcome. Well I have support and people that really want to help me, and that are going extra miles to give me all the opportunities I might possibly need, but they often don't understand and say the usual things people say, like I'm not trying enough, I'm not really trying, I want to stay ill, I want to keep people tied to me with my illness... I HATE not being independent and mentally stable, I hate to be seen like that, but I would also hate to lie and treat mental health as something shameful. I like to talk about it to let feelings out, because otherwise they get worse, even though after I talked about what goes through my mind I regret it because I feel fragile, exposed and I am forced to face how "damaged" I am, and I hate that image. I don't want to be like that. I'd just love to make something better out of this mess and leave the worse behind, and stop wasting years of my life. I have lots of things I want to do. But somehow to everyone's eyes I like to be depressed, even when I'm not. And I ask myself why everyone thinks that and if they may be right.
Tomorrow I'll try starting some serotonin treatment I was prescribed with that should help me with anxiety. Should have started it months agonized, but I'm not too comfortable around meds, even simple flue ones, I think it might be called a phobia. So I asked a someone to be with me when I'll have to take the med. HELP. Why am I so scared of that little pill?
@PeppermintStar0912 1. I am really stressed from work. 2. I am just upset because I have to think of so many things. 3. I wish the weekend would be 3 days hahaha.
@Jewelmoon17 Hi there! I'm sorry to hear how stressed you are from work. I can understand why you are upset because when we are thinking of so many different things, it gets exhausting and painful after a while. I hope you feel better soon. I wish the weekend would be three days too! Thank you for checking in and have a beautiful night!
Emotionally, I'm feeling quite calmer and happier than I have been. This month has been crazy busy socially, at work, and at home! Then I got food poisoning, so I was like THE WORLD IS ENDING and I just had to take a second to breathe. My breather has been good, and I feel much more grounded! This weekend was 2 birthday parties and also moving out of my brother's house and moving into my boyfriend's house-- needless to say, I was a bit frazzled with a packed to-do list. I know I can handle anything that gets thrown at me, however! I'mr eady for it!!
@betterchoices
Wow! It's great to witness such a smashing positivity! 
I'm happy for you, although not so happy for the food poisoning, not nice at all! Luckily all went for the best. Good luck with your boyfriend!
@betterchoices Hello there! That is great to hear that you've been calmer and happier lately! That is surely something to celebrate! Oh no, I'm sorry that you got food poisoning! How terrible that must've been! I bet moving out of your brother's and into your boyfriends made you feel really good. I love your attitude, I really do! You seem so positive and upbeat no matter how busy you are! Thank you for checking in and have a great night!
@PeppermintStar0912 I really do try my best!!!! Thank you!!!! You help 💙
@PeppermintStar0912
1. How are you feeling emotionally today? I am feeling okay
2. Is there anything bothering or upsetting you? not really
3. How did your weekend go? It went really well :) Work was busy but I went out to dinner last night
@Mellietronx Hi there friend! I always love hearing that everything is going okay with you and that there is nothng bothering or upsetting you! It's always good when work is busy and I hope you enjoyed your dinner out! Thank you for checking in with me and have a beautiful night!
1. Drained
2. Feels lile the whole world
3. It was pleasant, my support network increased
and i felt like i was human
@Gujon3073 Hello there. I'm sorry to hear that you were feeling drained and I hope you feel better now. That is wonderful that your support network increased! I bet that made you feel really good! Thank you for sharing this with me and checking in. Have a beautiful night.
How are you feeling emotionally today?
I'm not feeling the best but i'll mange.
Is there anything bothering or upsetting you?
Just dealing with stuff from the past and learning to heal
How did your weekend go?
My weekend was good. Just boring.
@Goldcherry2113 Hi there! I'm sorry that you aren't feeling your best. Dealing with the past can be tough and bring up a lot of unwanted feelings but it's really good that you learning to move passed it and heal. That takes a lot of courage. I'm glad your weekend went well! Thank you for checking in with me and have a beautiful night.
I am feeling empty
Unknown worry, defined anger, and unexplicable loneliness is bothering me
My weekend went nice, noni and a listener helped me through it.
@Miriam6 Hi, :) sorry to hear, noni is funny. Weirdly they answered my question just from yesterday
@Gujon3073 noni is very funny. at one point, it actually felt like i was talkin to a real person and it kinda freaked me out . thought i was going crazy. Maybe i was. it was answering me so accurately like a human would. i wonder if a human is really behind it's mechanics...
@Miriam6 kinda, i got an amazon echo and its similar logic. There are humans who basically install the ai. Very good buy yeh spooky as these days we dont know who is machine who is human.
Anyway im human (i think), glad your reaching out like me, and hooe you get the right help or be it voice. So hi and welcome.
@Gujon3073 thank you kind soul (or robot). Strangely, it felt better talking to the bot than to a human itself. Either I am totally mad for connecting with a mechanical creature and i actually belong to the droid species or...it is what it is.
Nice to meet you here and wish you all the best as well.
Im feeling dead inside? Or, not in shape to be a listener, but guess what? Here I am, helping people!