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Old Mar 13, 2011, 02:21 PM
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I've been there too. Totally overwhelmed !Sad Robot has some good advice for you.

Sometimes for me I just need to remove myself from my situation for a while. Sometimes I go to my favorite spot which is the thrift store. I just wander around and sometimes I find a real goody. When I was living in Florida I would go to the beach. That always made me feel better. It put things in perspective. Try to find that kind of place where you live. That might help. Here in Fairfax Virginia its finally getting better as far as weather goes. Our complex has a courtyard and fountain and beautiful trees etc so that helps too.

Sometimes I list things in prioity and then I make a goal to maybe to do two, or one, or three a day.......I don't think of what I have to do, but that I did what I wrote down. You feel then like you have made some success. Its a good feeling.

Being overwhelmed can leave you totally frozen so that is not good. Being home too, you worry more because there is nothing to take your mind off the issues at hand. Been there too! So you got to separate yourself for a while...get out of the house, have some fun with friends whatever. Not having a lot of money narrows things a bit but you just got to be a little more creative.

Feel better!
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Thanks for this!
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