~ The Toolshed ~

[Bunniekins]

@Dreamy   hey beautiful i hope you are having a wonderful day.  i visited mum which was lovely she is suffering so much but gets on with things.  she's a real trooper. xxx

[Mustang67]

Hi @Judi9877 I would love to see some photos of anything you have made with your knitting, crocheting or cross stich if you have any. I uaed to do cross stich and I have a heap of patterns & diamond dots prints waiting to be done. But I just can't get the motivation to do them. As well as the fact, they are packed up in a box somewhere between my cabin & my mum's place.

I use watching paranormal shows or movies to  occupy my mind when things aren't going well.

I hope your distractions are helping you through your current issues and that they bring you some comfort.  You are in my thoughts. 

 

 

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[Dreamy]

Hello my sweet @Bunniekins, visiting mum sounds lovely and I hope you enjoyed the time together ❤️.  Both you and your mum are troopers i reckon 😊. Love you beautiful ❤️.

[Mustang67]

@Cuddlebear I saw my surgeon on the 18th Sept and he put me on a 90 day waiting list for the surgery. So, I think I have about 6 weeks to go. While they are in my stomach region removing my gallbladder, they are going to try and fix my hiatus heria which is pushing my stomach up into my oesophagus. Then they will be putting a tub inside my oesophagus to try and stretch my oesophagus where I have a section of scare tissue, from the lap band I use to have, which had narrowed the oesophagus, and it causes my food to constantly get stuck. The surgeon will be working on my oesophagus from the inside and maybe the outside, if the scar tissue needs to be cut to release it.

[REDLINEZ750]

power messages in there @Dreamy @ thank you so much i tagged you over on chasing sunsets highlight page i hope it gives you a bit of feel good amongst the tooth ache

wish i could do more thanks for thinking of me

[Mustang67]

Good evening   @Dreamy @Bunniekins @heartathome @PeppyPatti @Judi9877 @Shaz51 

About half an hour ago, I started listening to some music tracks from my phone when a track started playing of a session I had with one of my therapists over 6 years ago. And he was talking about me as if I was a third person and letting me know why I treat myself so poorly over where my life has ended up etc. It was great to hear his point of view, as to why I have responded to my life the way that I have, but now it has triggered me, because here I am six years later, and mentally I am still struggling. I accept that I have made two of the big issues I had back then, something that has either disappeared, or is now at a level where it does not affect me like it use to. And I have learnt a lot of important lessons since that time. And I am definitely better off in regard to setting personal boundaries and things in that area, but I still struggle with the depression to a level where I can't function. I remember thinking back then that i was so looking forward to being able to finally enjoy my life like I used to. Oh well my progress is slow, but I have the feeling deep down that one day I will get to a place where, I no longer struggle like I currently am.

I just needed to get these feelings off my chest, Thanks for listening ❤️

[tyme]

Thank you for sharing @Mustang67 . There are some powerful insights there that we can all learn from. 

Reminds me that we can't control the weather, but we can control the way we handle it.

[Shaz51]

❤️ @Mustang67 

[Dreamy]

@REDLINEZ750 thankyou, it did make me smile 😊.

[Mustang67]

@Cuddlebear I hope you are coping ok while tapering your medication. i know how awful that can be 🤗

I am waiting to see my doctor to get a referral to go back to the psychiatrist for a medication review. I am not sure if I have told you before, but I was on the best antidepressant at the beginning of the year, and I felt the best I had ever felt in 23 years. I was socialising and starting to think about looking for either part time work or volunteering at the animal shelter close by. Then in May everything changed. i was so sad, to the point that I was no longer interested in communicating with any of my coin groups. An even when my coin deliveries arrived, I would let them sit unopened for over a month. And because of this, I questioned my pharmacist about the medication as it no longer seemed to be working. And he informed me that the original medication has been discontinued, so he replaced my medication with the generic brand without telling me. I told him that the generic was no longer working, so he said he will try another brand of generic to see if they are any better. Those ones were better, but I just feel like I am existing not living. I was referred to a psychiatrist about six weeks ago, and it was denied, so now I need to find another one, and then of course there will be a wait to get an appointment etc. The whole process sucks and I feel for you,