Just checking in.

[Faith-and-Hope]

It’s not something I would wish on anybody @CheerBear .... and I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye as I wrote it .....

The fear and grief has to spill somewhere, and as long as you don’t scrub and mop until you are unwell with it, cleaning is a healthy enough outlet ..... and outlet in healthy ways you must, because what you are witnessing is outlet in unhealthy ways ...... and that’s what happens when it doesn’t know what else to do.  And you don’t see it coming.  They don’t see it coming.  It’s nobody’s fault.

There will be things you will be advised by your support people, so I am confirming from another direction that this is right ..... and one of those is to start reading about it .... learn how it thinks, and what the stages are.  It actually makes things a little less scary, because “it’s better the devil you know .....” and “forewarned is forearmed”.  You will also need to be able to separate the person you know and love from the person they seem to be behaving as ..... because that is actually the condition masquerading itself through them, and the one you love needs to know that you can see through the masquerade, and you love them no matter what ..... and you do ..... you know you do.

Just keep doing what you do.  Hold the goalposts in their place.  Go about the business of life ..... shop, cook, clean, school run, turn up the radio and sing ..... have a life beyond what this thing tries to do, and show the one you love that the condition can’t take it from you ..... and that will be their way forward too .....

Hold tight sister-bear ..... walking with you.

💜💜💜

[CheerBear]

There's so much in your post to take on board and to think about, and lots to remember as I go. Thank you again @Faith-and-Hope, heaps 💗

(Ps 'sister-bear' - big warm fuzzies ❤)

[outlander]

@CheerBear
@Teej
@Faith-and-Hope

[PeppiPatty]

@Kurra !

@Teej @outlander @CheerBear @CheerBear @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member

[Faith-and-Hope]

Hey @PeppiPatty ..... 👋💕

[Former-Member]

@CheerBear @PeppiPatty @Teej @outlander @Faith-and-Hope 

“Just do the best you can

thats all we can do”

 🌸💕

[outlander]

@PeppiPatty 👋💛

@Former-Member 💖

Morning to everyone here too 💙

[CheerBear]

Hi to everyone here 👋

Love that one @Former-Member 💗

@Teej wanted to say hi and thinking of you hoping your yesterday afternoon/evening was OK. Thank you lots for yesterday. It really helped heaps. I was bottling and add struggling with it. I can breathe a bit better today.

It's a little cool here today but really sunny. I'm sitting next to a new potted pretty which made its way to our house after being a gift to unwell person. It looks so lovely on the little outside coffee table where I sit often.

Not sure what you've been up to this weekend but hoping it's one with good in it for you. 

(That's an image in a new album 😁 But it is the only one I can use from it :face_with_rolling_eyes: I'll see whether your public album idea helps later 👍)

[soul]

For all those who are struggling, I have read your about your worries, wish I could take them away but please know that I am

[jem80]

Hi,

just checking in. Doing ok. Have ups and downs some days. Sometimes I feel like I am not heard. Average day today, which was a little low. Hopefully will feel better tomorrow. Feel sad sometimes because I think of my lived experience and everything I have endured. Sometimes I feel guilty, that I am not deserving of good things.

I will cheer up, just an off day...