Short Sads
Hey everyone!
I reckon we are so good at supporting each other and this section of the forum is an absolute testament to that. A place where a lot of people reach out for help for the very first time ever and it's pretty awesome to see how great you all are at supporting people through that.
Life isn't just full of big new tough things though. Things don't just get better as soon as we start out on our path to recovery, it's called a path for a reason, there's many steps! And sometimes we can stumble a bit and you know what, that's okay :).
A couple of weeks ago I made a thread to celebrate our achievements together. And @tsnyder made an awesome one for us to talk about the new things we're exploring in the world too!
This thread is kind of like the dark side of those threads - but it has a silver lining!
This is a place to let us know about something tough that you're going through and -this is the important bit- for us to support each other through those tough bits, to remember how to turn negatives into positives and to work on finding solutions together.
If you're feeling like you're stumbling a little or like you might fall, i want you to come here to let us know about it and to draw on the AMAZING support you folks give each other.
So post here with the smallest fear or what feels like the greatest failure and we will support you with everything we've got!
It'll probably look like this:
Ripcurl Pro looked awesome - makes me want to get out there.
@Chessca_H I'm just feeling scared about it all
@j95 that's alright, take your time. What are you up to at the moment?
I've had 4. I haven't done anything important today but just went for a long skate, went for a drive, watched some of the rip curl pro online, and I started watching 13 Reasons Why and I wish I didnt... and im getting more and more nervous about tomorrow, also seeing some of my sibs tomorrow as well but I have nothing to give them
Hey @redhead, what's happening in your head that's giving you a hard time? Feel up to making a thread about it?
@j95 Sounds like the start of today was pretty good 🙂 I'm sure your siblings will be happy to see you and spend some time together, what do you feel might help to ease your nerves about tomorrow right now?
@j95 what was on for you today? How many hotcross buns have you consumed? (I am at number 6 
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Yeah @cupcakes_032 I ended up writing like a 9000 word short story haha
I hope you're okay @j95 and @redhead 
@cupcakes_032 I'm okay I guess, atm I am doing some writing just trying to process some of these feelings.
thanks for tagging me in the thread @j95... I'm all caught up now! 🙂
I can see why you would be feeling nervous- the uncertainty of it. That's super awesome of you to do it though. sometimes we just have to do the thing that makes us feel anxious and face it.
Can you think of another time when you were feeling nervous and it turned out to be ok? it usually helps to remember we go through such situations so much and most of the time it's good for us 🙂
Did you want to talk about what's happening on Monday? @j95
What's something you can do to distract yourself?
I haven't been doing anything. Tried to vaccumn my bedroom but my stupid housemate seems to think that the vaccumn cleaner is invincible and can suck up everything so it won't work on me.
@j95 I hear you, we can be mindful about our thoughts and feelings. I know it's difficult but we don't have to attach any meaning to it. What's something you can do to keep yourself busy tonight? Something caring and soothing.. 🙂 You'll get through this feeling..It'll pass.
Hi @j95 I can see you're having a pretty hurtful negative thought. They are just thoughts- not the truth. You're not awful. You're amazing!
What have you been up to tonight?
