What do you wish someone would tell you? Tell it to yourself. Give yourself a pep talk when you are feeling down.
I’ll start...
I’m a hard worker
I have got it together as best I can
I have so much love to share
I am a good problem solver
I am creative
I care so much about other people and animals
I am brave
...Your turn!
Just deal with it ……put a positive spin on it ffs ……just accept this is the way it plays out ….for now 🤔……hi shines bright btw ⭐️
That’s awesome I love putting a positive spin on it ... now I don’t like my pep talk anymore because yours is way cooler 😂
I have to shout …just deal with it ..to myself ,feel like I’m in the film 12 monkeys sometimes ….usually when it’s mundane chore time ,otherwise I talk myself out of it 😊 I think isinatra has good coping strategies and must be on good bi polar meds
Actually, I’m advertising for someone to be my bodyguard on the trip. 😁Meds? What meds?😂
Mentally ill and proud…why fight it ….#me too ..who needs meds !!…..goodnight
Mentally ill, proud AND very loud.
I love your outlook. It's seen me, aw heck, it's seen so many of us through trouble so many times. 😭 ⇒ 😊 🦜
You can do this. I’ll be with you when you see your siblings for the reunion. I’ll help you pack for the trip and I’ll make sure you get to the plane because I’ll be with you. I’ll be your shield when your sister starts picking on you. I’ll deafen your ears when your brother corners you because you’re not of the same political party he is. I’ll walk away with you when they get drunk. You can do this because I’ll be with you.
Omg you are amazing that’s brilliant
You help bring it out. 💖
Thank you! 🥰 you too! You helped inspire me to write a better pep talk. I just love yours
Yours Is absolutely fabulous just the way it is.
I love this and I try to practice doing this all the time. Some of my favs:I LOVE you.
There is nothing wrong with feeling (x)
You do the best you can and that’s damn good enough
I’m here for you
I see you I feel you and I love you
Sooooooooooo awesome Nina!!!!!!!! ❤️
Love it - thanks
Let me try this again...
You are enough. You will be ok always even when things seem so not okay snd you are already here with outstretched arms holding yourself up and the angels are too and neither will ever leave you as your energy is good and always will be the strongest force within you and you are attracted to and with others with this same good energy. All is well.
Unfortunately, Starr, I don't seem up to this. I had to get off the Geodon and Lamictal because of the tardive dyskinesia and now I'm trying Depakote and Latuda, but for the past week I've been depressed. I get up in the morning and go for a walk to feel better, and it works for a while, but eventually I can't see that there's anything else to do. And I don't get pleasure in doing anything distracting. So I just try to take naps off and on all afternoon. I don't think it's getting any better. My depression doesn't feel sad, it just doesn't feel like there's ever going to be anything good happen again. I think I repress the bad feelings and am just left with the fog. My NP gave me a test that showed I'm moderately to severely depressed. But there's nothing we can do except see if the medicine starts kicking in at some point. Assuming that's how it works.
C-Mac!!!! I’m so sorry my beautiful friend. Keep hope. I’m so done. With so much. I assume you are so done with so much too. As you say nothing good will happen again that’s kind of how I’ve been feeling- numbness like I’m not really here and don’t really matter.
That’s awesome that you take the walk. I lift weights in the morning now. I just started. That’s about all the exercise I can get myself to do.
I really hope you will be feeling better soon. You deserve much better. Me too. I think. Karma. Maybe not 😂 I’m always too hard on myself. Maybe we will deserve to feel better once we are nice to ourselves.
This life is painful. I know. I get it. But the fact that you've made it this far already, through the stress of school, through the stress of the pandemic and political turmoil, through all of the pain that your household has caused you, and through all of the loneliness and isolation, shows how resilient you really are. Now get out there and do what you need to do to make a better, meaningful life for yourself. It won't be easy, and the journey will be painful, but you can do it!
Yes!!!!!!! Powerful!
I've accomplished amazing things....I'm a great problem solver....I'm good with people.....I'm a good human being.....I'm empathetic....I'm smart.....I'm a lover of animals, nature and life....I'm willing to learn new things.....I'm open to change.....I'm creative.....I'm a good husband and friend....I'm enough just the way I am
How many do we get - LOL
Heehee that’s awesome! Good job!
Everybody here could be a life coach. 👍🏼
Amazing list ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I also try my best to help the genuine. No judgement s . Just a moral gut feeling.
I love this ❤️
Yes! I know what you mean. 😌
I am not responsible for other peoples decisions and actions
I am dedicated
I am thoughtful
I am resilient
Thank you! Your posts always help be put things into perspective
Good job!
I to loved this reply. I read it and immediately felt really solid and tough.
"My best is good enough!"
Sorry but right now that's all I have. Just keep repeating it over and over in my mind.
Perfect!
I am kind, loving and clued into the fact that most people are " walking wounded" in regards to difficulties in life. None of us are getting thru life "unscathed. In this world, kindness & compassion mean a lot
It really does mean a lot. All you say is so true. We never know. People are like glass sometimes.
I would tell myself to keep positive & think of the positives of a situation . If you have tried everything accept that it isnt going to work & move on
Crying doesnt solve a problem
Think of the things you can do & not what you cant
Positive! ❤️ it! Yes what CAN we do not can’t- perfect!
thanks
That is awesome 😎.. I'm a good person. I'm a hard worker.. I'm kind to my friends and family.. I respect people regardless of status, we are all the same.. I'm compassionate and creative.
Niiiiice. I love all you’ve said here. Very beautiful Lve2dance!
Thanks starrlight💋 I like to say I'm perfectly imperfect and I'm fine with that
Love it 🥰
It's hard because I know I am a strong person who has been through a lot.. But when I get anxiety occasionally I feel like I am less than.. Not from people around me, just my folks
You know and that’s what matters. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I was on Lamictal for 15 years, so now my body is expecting that constant lift in mood. I want to see what happens today, and then I'm going to say I need to go the antidepressant route. I'm just worried that it wont be as stable -- have you had any trouble with breakthrough hypo/manias?
Just let it go, you get to start all over again in the morning. The past is irrelevant and when you accept that you cannot change it, you will then be able to move forward. ❄️
It doesn't matter in the least what others think about you, what matters is how you feel about yourself, this is where your power lies and you need to understand this, deeply and completely. ❄️
Slow down, not just physically, slow down your thoughts, too. If a thought is of the negative variety, then show it to the back door, right away. ❄️
You deserve to be loved, just as you are, with all of your broken bits and pieces. True love will be the glue to help you stick those pieces back together. Do not settle, though. Never, ever settle, you deserve more than that. ❄️
Thanks, dear Starrlight. 🦋
Snowdaze I really needed to read that. Really badly. Thank you so!!!!!!! I just was so down and so stressed and just ready to break like glass I mean I don’t know what I’m going to do like I’m so done right now but your words give hope. Maybe I’ll be able to go into nature soon or cry it out I just went in the car drove and screamed that the top of my lungs but I had to come home people need me here. I need right now.
You are welcome, Starrlight. ❤️
You are having a tough time right now, so please keep writing it all down. Let the tears flow if they need to and by all means, if yelling at the top of your lungs is a release, then do it. 💗
You are important to me. You're an interesting person You have something more yet to contribute. You will find your tribe, you will belong. You will be stronger than ever. You will find the thing that makes you shine. The place to live. You will love and be loved. You will be understood fully by someone.or two.
No real reason to move on without these.
You are important to me too and all you say I thank you for it. I’m so broken down. I’m so done. I have tears of I don’t know what. Maybe I’m feeling it’s all too much. I don’t know what to do.
Starlight, I feel the same as you. I'm tired, soo tired. My underlying trauma leaves me motionless. May we find the light that shines through the slightest crack that leads us to well being.
Yes. So sorry you are there too. All I can do now is rest. Rest peacefully until you have the strength to get back up and fight
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