I have started walking outdoors again for the last few days and it has really improved my mood. Walking in the mall is ok if the weather is to hot or rainy but it really doesn't help me any where as much as walking in nature. Walking in nature really helps me deal with my anxiety, depression and boosts my self esteem. This is a activity that I need to do as long as I am able if I want to feel well, healthy and alive.
I am so glad that we are now going to work on the issue of stress. I think stress is a real killer. I have some serious health problems both phycially and emotionally caused by this killer and my lack of learning to handle stress in a effective and positive way. Walking does help me some. Reading is a good relaxer and so is watching a movie. Sometimes I get so stressed out that I can not think clearly enough to do anything which leads to anger, anxiety, and then ends with depression and my phycial health going down the tolite. It is a vicious cycle without a happy ending. I really am look forward to learning some new ways of handling stress that are not self destructive. Anyone have any ideas out there please let me know.
Welcome to the group. I agree with you I also like the idea of a online group being that its hard for me to be close to people.
I to suffer with the problem of trying to be perfect and am quite hard on myself and others also I guess maybe. Anyway I like you am willing to try this approach I have nothing to lose and possibly a lot to gain in getting better and being happier. I'll put in a prayer for all of us. Keep us posted on how you are doing.
I know I am a little late in responding but I have been in a whirlwind. I too am a widow for 5 1/2 yrs now. I also have been in a relationship, for a little over 4 yrs now. I also feel paniced when I think of the prospect of being alone again. The panic and grief and sheer sickness I felt when my husband got sick and later died was unbearable. When I think about being alone again it is very frightening. I find grieving is a long process. I am not sure you ever get over losing a partner you just get used to it and the thought of losing someone else and having to go through it again is very frightening especially when you never really get over all the people you have lost. I have just had to try to learn to live with it and move on, but I sometimes wonder if I am with the right person or just afraid of dealing with the grief all over again and feeling that horrible lost and empty feeling again. I think we can just do the best that we can and try to live out our life as happily as possible. I hope you come back to the group and read this post so that you will know that you are not alone in your feelings
I just want to thank you all for responding to my post. goofy,Diva, Dunner, Mandy, Amanda, Ashley, & Breanne. Reading your posts has helped me a great deal also. Its good to know that I am not the only one that has these feeling and that I am not alone in this. Its good to know that there may be help for me, help for all of us. This gives me great hope. I am going to try and take Ashley's advice to read and work through the program. I am a little scared a lot scared and I think that has kept me from getting started. I really feel I need to give this a try now for ME I am worth it and I just need to keep telling myself that. I want to thank you Breanne and Ashley for reminding me of that. I guess it s time for me to get to know the real me and to learn to love my self for who I really am.
I have gotten to the point to where I am looking forward to some time alone to enjoy myself and find out who I really am. I sure hope I can get that time real soon before I really lose my mind and my self for good.
Hope you are all doing well
Leslie, formally Sid.
You know what I am going back to Sid cause I like Sid.
I started out trying to plan a camping trip for the holidays with my partner but we just seemed to argue about the details, so I decided to forget about the camping trip and try to do something else maybe go to octoberfest on the weekend. I was very excited about going and suggested that he go show his engines in a tractor & engine
show and that maybe we just needed some alone time away from each other being he really didn't seem excited about octoberfest, or camping or what ever. I was really feeling upbeat about it this morning. I love the fall weather. Any way I thought maybe I'd go with him to the engine show instead if he wanted me to. After all this hassle I seem to have lost me enthusiasm to do any of it. I started to feel my self slipping into a depression. So I guess it is me and my fears stopping me from enjoying my life alone or with someone. The anxiey is getting me now and I am afraid to go alone. I really struggle to leave the house at all these days. I am Sorry for rambleing on while I try to figure this out. I real feel life has got to be better than this.
Thanks for listening
Sid
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