Putting Things In Perspective

[TrustYourSoul]

It can really help someone's anxiety and/or depression to put their feelings in real perspective compared to the horrible things that others are dealing with this very minute.

Right now, there are children in hospitals receiving nauseating chemotherapy to try and fight cancer and live ...children!

Right now, someone just heard the most important person (or pet) in their life take their last breath. They begged them to keep breathing and not to leave. Now they are frozen with shock and grief.

Right now, there are people with no food, water, or shelter. If you have these three things, to them Your life seems pretty darn Great.

Sure, some people have some "anxiety" and/or "depression". It happens. It is what it is. Still, negativity about SO many things isn't doing any good. In fact, negativity is The Enemy, and everyone knows it, but many just won't practice changing their destructive behavior because they are in their comfort zone being miserable, or they want another medication that will fix everything and make their life great and happy. It doesn't work that way though.

I have hit rock bottom in my past. I will NOT let it happen again. Once you fall into the deep hole, then use all of your strength and fight to claw and climb your way up and out, you learn, sometimes with professional help and truly listening to others, how to avoid falling into the hole again. You know you don't Ever want to be down there again.

Negativity is The Enemy. Stop It! Fight It! You Can!

[Willow2022]

Though I agree with trying to stay positive sometimes thinking of all those things makes it worse for me personally. Why would I want to live in such a terrible world where people treat each other like trash? Where children are preyed upon and not protected? Where people can’t even afford gas to go to a doctors appointment? It’s like doom scrolling… I get stuck in a cycle of how bad it all is and it makes me feel worse. Just my perspective 🌻

(Put a little flower there as to not seem aggressive)

[TrustYourSoul]

Thank you Willow2022.😊🌼

[Shnookie]

Hi it’s Shnookie. I understand what U meanbut this can be viewed as a blanket statement. I work 7 days a week as a concierge in an Independent Living Community and on the weekends as a caregiver to my 90 year old client who has advanced dementia. I’m not complaining about working 7 days a week but there R things especially with my client who has advanced dementia where it is difficult not to avoid negativity. Unfortunately there R certain aspects of the dementia that can be trying. I do the best I can and treat my client with kindness. The rest of my day will be easier BUT there will be some negativity

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[Jefner]

most definitely a blanket statement especially when you post on people's posts about them being negative blah blah. People reach out on here, either to just vent or look for support. You know nothing about another sufferer's life and what they are dealing with every day. Staying positive is extremely hard to do when your life is falling apart around you and has been for a long time or you have long term severe health issues to deal with. Good on you for saying you won't hit rock bottom ever again but that's simply not true. Life can throw some nasty curveballs which can easily send you back, and like the rest of us, you do not know what lies ahead and when those curveballs will hit. You can be spiralled back at any time

[Shnookie in reply to Jefner]

I totally agree with you.

[TrustYourSoul]

I Won't hit rock bottom again. Trust me. I have prevented it after the first and only time, despite cancer twice at age 25 and again at 40, loss of a child, a partially paralyzing spinal cord injury with a long recovery, a brutal 18-wheeler accident, type 1 insulin diabetes.... many things... and yet, I smile. I consider the fact that I am now 60, alive, still able to help others, and rescue people and animals who may not have survived otherwise, to be part of the Legacy I am still building on. I can only offer the wisdom of my life to anyone who sincerely cares to take it in and possibly learn something from me. If they don't, I tried. 🙇‍♀️