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ArtieTheSequal
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Default Jan 13, 2021 at 01:43 PM
 
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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty View Post
HUGS Artie. It's just hard right now. So many things have been going on for so long. Politics. Covid. Not being able to see T's in person. Etc. You aren't being a baby. You're being a human. I'm sorry you feel so bad. You are heard.

Thanks Kit. feeling heard helps so much. I need to work on consciously remembering that - i'm being human.


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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight View Post
Hugs, Artie. This is a really difficult time for multiple reasons, and it makes sense that you're struggling. I'm sorry that you are, but please know that you're far from alone in this. You're not being a baby--or if you are, so am I! At the end of my T session yesterday, I just started sobbing and was like, "I don't know how I'm going to make it through all this." Because it's been going on so long.


I read an article a couple months ago that explained how humans are built to deal with shorter periods of stress. Like maybe something going on for a week or a month or even a few months. But not something like this, particularly something that affects so many areas of our lives. So it makes sense that so many people are struggling. That maybe for the first few months it's like "Great, I can read those books I've been meaning to read," but then as time stretches on, it becomes more unbearable.

Write/talk as much about it as you need to.

Thanks LT. it so helps to hear that i'm not alone in these feelings. i mean i know it on one level of course but it's helpful to hear it from people too you know? anyway i think it's seeing the longtime friendships breaking up that bothers me more than anything else. it makes no sense in my heart that people who are supposedly like sisters would just turn on one another like they are. some of them are pressuring me to take sides and I don't want to take sides.
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