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886... I hope you can find a way to deal with this anxiety without turning to compulsive drinking. It will absolutely shatter your world; you think it's hard dealing with anxiety now... When you start getting the shakes because you haven't had a drink etc etc it just spirals.
I feel like I can't post this without sounding preachy, but if you can, try anything! Acupuncture (which I started again today and admittedly feel pretty good!) or yoga or gym work or white noise and a pillow taped around your head; whatever might be able to nudge you towards a less self-destructive course. I had many people say this to me and found it very hard to listen, though I understand in retrospect... Get out before it gets too hard!! !
I've been saying for months I need to get to a therapist, I just keep making excuses - and I shouldn't have any because I have health insurance and 8 fully covered visits under my EAP.
I'm just terrified of starting the old routine of having new meds shoved down my throat until one magically helps soothe my anxiety or the usual, making me emotionally and mentally unstable.
I'm well aware of the adverse effects of alcohol dependency, I watched my grandmother suffer 50 years of alcoholism, and alcohol withdrawls inducing dementia in her 70s. A lack of a social life and working graves isn't doing me many favors though.
there's just has to be some better way....meditation? exercise? running? herbal teas? warm baths? yoga?
just thinking out loud...
886... I hope you can find a way to deal with this anxiety without turning to compulsive drinking. It will absolutely shatter your world; you think it's hard dealing with anxiety now... When you start getting the shakes because you haven't had a drink etc etc it just spirals.
I feel like I can't post this without sounding preachy, but if you can, try anything! Acupuncture (which I started again today and admittedly feel pretty good!) or yoga or gym work or white noise and a pillow taped around your head; whatever might be able to nudge you towards a less self-destructive course. I had many people say this to me and found it very hard to listen, though I understand in retrospect... Get out before it gets too hard!! !
I've been saying for months I need to get to a therapist, I just keep making excuses - and I shouldn't have any because I have health insurance and 8 fully covered visits under my EAP.
I'm just terrified of starting the old routine of having new meds shoved down my throat until one magically helps soothe my anxiety or the usual, making me emotionally and mentally unstable.
I'm well aware of the adverse effects of alcohol dependency, I watched my grandmother suffer 50 years of alcoholism, and alcohol withdrawls inducing dementia in her 70s. A lack of a social life and working graves isn't doing me many favors though.
there's just has to be some better way....meditation? exercise? running? herbal teas? warm baths? yoga?
just thinking out loud...
There's options out there and I try to get my running and exercise in as much as I can, but it's really bad social anxiety driving me to such things. I have plenty of time to be alone and clear my mind sitting in a semi truck for 9 hours a day, it's just hard to go out and make new friends when you feel the way you do.
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If Jesus died for my sins, then I should sin as much as possible, so he didn't die for nothing.
I know it isn't much consolation, but I know how you feel there.
Are you able to seek cognitive behavioural therapy instead of going the medication route? If you have enough visits available to go regularly I think it makes a difference. I mean, I'm still not happy per se but I've been sober for 18 months and no longer want to smoke pot as I've come to recognise that there's absolutely no benefit to that either.
I wish I could say that it's been a while since I've smoked but it's only been a week.
At least it was a couple of weeks before that... As in to say, the majority of the time I'm clean/sober which is a win, but it does leave me wondering where to go from here. It's hard when even things like going to the gym are something that I force myself to do, and rather than making me feel good it just leaves me feeling not quite as bad, or at least flat rather than low.
I also need to get in to see my doctor and let him know that I don't want to take the antidepressants he prescribed me, and that I want to establish a mental health plan so I can get my 12 visits in with my psychologist. I've started acupuncture again which I think really does something as I cried after it yesterday.
Overall, I think Auntblabby's made some great suggestions there as usual, and I have been employing all of those recently to try and find a space that's better than the one I'm in. At the very least, there are pockets of complete silence in meditation which is very much a welcome sensation.
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How did I get here tonight? What am I doing here?
How did I reach this state? How did I lose my sight?
I'm lost! I'm freaking! And everybody knows!
Everyone's watching!
So here... Are my hopes and aspirations
Nothing but puke
God, I'm so loooooonelaaaaaaayyyy
*power stance, air guitar*
886... I hope you can find a way to deal with this anxiety without turning to compulsive drinking. It will absolutely shatter your world; you think it's hard dealing with anxiety now... When you start getting the shakes because you haven't had a drink etc etc it just spirals.
I feel like I can't post this without sounding preachy, but if you can, try anything! Acupuncture (which I started again today and admittedly feel pretty good!) or yoga or gym work or white noise and a pillow taped around your head; whatever might be able to nudge you towards a less self-destructive course. I had many people say this to me and found it very hard to listen, though I understand in retrospect... Get out before it gets too hard!! !
I've been saying for months I need to get to a therapist, I just keep making excuses - and I shouldn't have any because I have health insurance and 8 fully covered visits under my EAP.
I'm just terrified of starting the old routine of having new meds shoved down my throat until one magically helps soothe my anxiety or the usual, making me emotionally and mentally unstable.
I'm well aware of the adverse effects of alcohol dependency, I watched my grandmother suffer 50 years of alcoholism, and alcohol withdrawls inducing dementia in her 70s. A lack of a social life and working graves isn't doing me many favors though.
there's just has to be some better way....meditation? exercise? running? herbal teas? warm baths? yoga?
just thinking out loud...
There's options out there and I try to get my running and exercise in as much as I can, but it's really bad social anxiety driving me to such things. I have plenty of time to be alone and clear my mind sitting in a semi truck for 9 hours a day, it's just hard to go out and make new friends when you feel the way you do.
Yeah, I get that too - which is why I don't go out at all. just gave up, happy here with some internet buddies.
They're not worthy of getting your liver screwed up, and brain and god knows what else...but yeah, it can be tough. I have had the very same problem ever since I was a toddler. Luckily for me the need to go out and even make new friends (in RL) has diminished by now.
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Actually, I didn't get accepted to all the PhD programs. I've gotten two responses: both rejections.
I know that everyone will reject me, now. Dammit.
Maybe not, but y'know... Dammit, I don't like this.
Seriously, I'll need to finish the semester even if everyone does reject me. I guess I can live with the shame, since I've had enough experience. Heh.
I can apply to Master's programs.
But I came here to rant, not ramble. If everyone rejects me then I'll just die! I'll just lie in bed and die! Don't push me, motherf***ers!
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No, no , no, don't try to reassure me. I'm completely useless and no one will want me if they spare two seconds to think about it.
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I literally hate my guts. And whatever diet don't help. So I'll just suck it up, and deal with it by myself. Like always.
Same with my eyesight sometimes. Except that's really my fault. I neither regret nor accept it.
So many things to wait for in order to move on and can't do anything about it to make it sooner. So many to mind at the same time. And so little time and chances...
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Why am I such a f!cking putz? I should know better than to loan my car, or anything else, for that matter, to anyone. I lent my car to a supposed friend for the afternoon, I have yet to get a phone call on where he's at. This is the same guy that bitched me out about the way I drive in the snow (since we got 5 inches of it this weekend), yet he has no problem running the gas out of my car, and he expects me to keep the tank filled, so I can be at his beck and call. He keeps insisting he is the penis and I am the scrotum, and I must follow him at all time. I'm getting sick and tired of his bullsh!t. I'm so sick and tired of being taken advantage of I could puke! I'm to the point of saying screw everything, lock myself in my room, and never come out, except to go to the bathroom and make my meals.
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My mother understands nothing about autism (even though she says she does) Just now, she made me do a whole loud of laundry, which is strangely hard for me. I asked her to work up to a full load, but she ignored me, now grounding me from computer.
Now I have to disobey her to get my obsessions back.
Well, I'm screwed.
I've waited two months to hear back from my fiancé's workplace, and since I haven't heard back yet, I'm going to assume they will not hire me. I may as well give up on my career now, because since I quit my job without another one lined up, it's virtually impossible for me to land another job, no matter how good my skills are. I could try going to college to get a better job, but sometimes I wonder if it is really worth the time and money just to waste four years trying to get a degree that I probably won't use anyway.
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WTF. When I ask to be left alone in peace, it seems to translate into keep f#cking talking more, and questioning me. Never mind I stopped answering, and your voice has turned into sharp knives in my brain. Never mind I can't follow your words anymore.
Complain to the boss all you want. I'm walking away. Someone else can hold your hand.
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I've waited two months to hear back from my fiancé's workplace, and since I haven't heard back yet, I'm going to assume they will not hire me. I may as well give up on my career now, because since I quit my job without another one lined up, it's virtually impossible for me to land another job, no matter how good my skills are. I could try going to college to get a better job, but sometimes I wonder if it is really worth the time and money just to waste four years trying to get a degree that I probably won't use anyway.
Have you considered the possibility that your fiance's employer may not allow close relatives to work for them, even if you are in different departments?
I've waited two months to hear back from my fiancé's workplace, and since I haven't heard back yet, I'm going to assume they will not hire me. I may as well give up on my career now, because since I quit my job without another one lined up, it's virtually impossible for me to land another job, no matter how good my skills are. I could try going to college to get a better job, but sometimes I wonder if it is really worth the time and money just to waste four years trying to get a degree that I probably won't use anyway.
Have you considered the possibility that your fiance's employer may not allow close relatives to work for them, even if you are in different departments?
They've made exceptions before. A mother and daughter work there, and so do a husband and wife. Also, my future in-laws work together at a different place in Cleveland. I really thought I could work there as well, but apparently not. I may as well give up on my job search now, because I know I will be turn down due to the fact that I am unemployed.
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At least you don't have a rash on your left shoulder that itches like crazy. Turns out I'm allergic to both Invokana and Farxiga, which my doctor had me on to lower my blood sugars. What next, Januvia?