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11-12-2018 07:18 PM
11-12-2018 07:18 PM
Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
Hi BlueBay, yes this putting on a mask can be draining and taxing emotionally and mentally.
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11-12-2018 07:19 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
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11-12-2018 07:19 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
How can you be “happy” when you’re screaming and crying inside. This family togetherness is not real for me snymire. @nashy@Robert_Lifeline
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11-12-2018 07:20 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
Hi Dave, What is it about the 'togetherness' that makes you feel even more alone and isolated? I am just curious..
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11-12-2018 07:20 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
I'm used to isolating myself to a degree @ & when I choose to come out of that hibernation, I normally socialise one on one.
On Christmas day there will be about 20 people at the lunch we are attending.
Crowds make me anxious. Even if I know the people.
I worry that I won't be able to be "happy" on the day, so will bring everyone down.
Then there's everyone who will ask how I'm going. How I'M REALLY GOING (eg: my mental health) . It will be a focus again, and I don't like that focus.
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11-12-2018 07:22 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
Some of your experience speaks to me too @utopia Thank you for sharing.
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11-12-2018 07:23 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
That’s all well and good, but for those of us who are largely alone and isolated those constant messages just serve to highlight the things I feel I’m missing out on.
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11-12-2018 07:23 PM
11-12-2018 07:23 PM
Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
Hi, this is a good point about being the focus and not wanting to be.. There seems to be a theme emerging of having to 'go through the motions' and pretending for the sake of the family.. I wonder, if this family enaggement is inescapable to a degree, how can we engage in a way that is safe for us? (i.e., play the game to a certain extent yet be true to ourselves..)
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11-12-2018 07:24 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // How do you support yourself through the festive season // Tues 11 Dec, 7pm AEDT
@nashy I phoned lifeline around 3 weeks ago, much needed someone to talk too, they spent over an hour on the phone with me, he was patient and listened to me, he was such a great help to me I was filled with so much gratitude I started crying in appreciation. I won lotto when this man answered my call. He was amazing.
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11-12-2018 07:24 PM