How are you coping today? #7

Pretty good I think considering things. My palms are finally starting to get better again, it seems. After stopping benadryl for years they started getting better after a month but then started getting worse but it's normal they always went in cycles. Starting to get hope again they'll eventually be 100% normal again.

I’m letting myself to feel all the emotions :hug I had surpress

I’m drinking a second cup of coffee.

I’m doing okay, a little more focused than I’ve been.

I’m taking the morning for me! I’m still in my pjs and not presentable. I have a blood donation at 2, so I’ll be dressed and everything by then. Drinking lots of water.

Overeating

Bit weird but I coped today by remembering a version of myself I aspire to be,

sometimes. I saw someone in the library yesterday, around my age, and I felt

inspired by their general attitude (that I was projecting onto this unwitting

stranger). It's an aspect of myself that I let get pushed under and then I can get

a great sense of inadequacy and inferiority which is unnecessary because I'm

okay, just as I am.

Tldr: yesterday I had a terrible day feeling very inadequate, hopeless and down on myself and saw a reflection of myself in another person which I used today to cope.

I'm not coping too well right now... My anxiety feels like it's going to run away with me.

Doesn't help that an idiot yelled at me on the phone.

Not good.

That's all I have the brain power to say right now.

I’m kind of flat…. But I’m going to stay busy today.

I’m too tired to cope, ….just hoping everything goes smoothly today. I’d prefer going back to bed but that’s not an option. So just really, really hoping everything goes smoothly and I don’t need to cope, just flow……flow

Hope it goes smoothly too, you donated blood the other day maybe that’s drained you a little?

I hadn’t thought of that. That was just yesterday. And I didn’t get much sleep because I stayed up way too late watching nostalgia tv shows. Thanks for the support. Gotta leave now.

Doing stuff. But the smallest activity takes tremendous effort.

You Tube videos helping me again today, mainly Michael Singer. I never really listened to his stuff before, it's okay pretty much 'be here now' but it's all useful.

Thanks for sharing this.

I am acknowledging my uncomfortable feelings by accepting that there is somewhere out there who has many situations that is worse than what I have

So much going on in the family right now but this week is going to be especially stressful, I’m focusing on it all being over - hoping for a good outcome but prepared in case it’s not.

I’ve been :sadhug watching a lot of :hug self help videos :grouphug today

I did the few chores I needed to get done then napped this afternoon. I'm hoping to feel better tomorrow. My husband has covid symptoms now too but the latest variants are less dangerous than the previous ones? Nothing stops the renovation work, three more days but the worst is (hopefully) definitely over.

Not coping. Barely thinking.

Oh, I'm not coping, I already cried like five times. Maybe crying is coping sometimes. I want to go in my bedroom with the heating on and sleep but that's not an option.

I thought about having a self care day

I’m not entirely sure how I coped today as it was very challenging but somehow I managed to stay calm in what was unfortunately somewhat of a crisis. I’m in bed now thinking about sleep and listening to a particular song that’s getting my tears out.

I have had a nice day so far. Working on some solutions to some of my problems instead of getting depressed and wallowing in it.