Success Stories, Please!

It sure is difficult to be away from here for a week, to come back and find that people are still in misery.

When I had to take my computer in for repairs, I was in a depression. I'm still there. I know what I have to do but I have no motivation. It would sure help to hear some personal success stories to help me with my motivation!

SURELY, there are a few success stories out there!? Bring them on! Please!

Well...this is a sort of success...I spent a whole morning posting ads of my "artox" on Ebay, and I'm getting bids! Still 4 days to go.
Patty

WOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! Keep me posted, ok? I have some things I need to put on eBay, myself!

Yes...Ebay is great! Encouraged by myi success with the art rocks, I just listed some Saladmaster cookware on my other "Hushpamellow" seller site, and already have 2 bids on the wok!
Patty

i bought myself a moped to play on, there is a pic posted in the gallery, and welcome back babe.

I'd love to have a moped!

I have a success story—it is my life! My depression has been gone for a few months—no self harm in months—my weight has been steady—I’ve been sober for over 18 months—therapy is going well…

Right now, one thing I am succeeding in is my job. I had been on the verge of getting fired for about 1 and ½ years. I am starting to get things turned around. One big difference is that I show up every day and stay instead of leaving early. My depression has been at bay long enough that I am finally catching up on tasks. It feels good. I don’t hate going to work. Although, I would rather hit the lottery and stay home.

well, today i got up and thought i wanted to hide and just dissappear. (im on holiday from work) Instead I got up, got dressed and went down to my allotment. My brother came with me and helped me build a fence and a make a gate and when it was finished i painted it green. I then went into the committee hut and spoke to some of the girls and had a cup of tea and a giggle with them. I then dug up some patatoes i had grown and brought them home and had them for dinner. It made me feel better.

Its not a huge sucess but for me, just for today, it was a little sucess.

Im glad you got your puter back!

I have not been well this week (asthma flare). The other day I caught myself saying over and over again how crappy I felt. I then stopped myself and practiced my deep breathing. As I breathed in I pretended it was bright sunlight going in my throat and into my lungs filling them with bright healing light and energy.

As I breathed out I pretended all the junk went out with it. I actually felt better and breathed a little better too! Told my hypnotherapist about it because it was techniques he shares. He was so pleased and rejoiced with me that this was the first time I was able to stop my negative thoughts and do something positive!

Tranquility

Hubby is off his meds (3 months now). No relapses. Gainfully employed in a job he loves and no symptoms of his earlier struggles. He's "normal" now.

I start my first year of teaching in a month. Yeah, we're having a pretty good year.

welcome back septie! I missed you!

We started a Sale-A-Thon here on the Classified Forum and have raised $118.00 toward the impending Gas bill shut off notice due Aug. 6th
Soooooooooooooo glad to see ya back, check out the thread for you and Sky in Spiritual

Would you mind very much sending me the links to your rocks? I'd really be interested in seeing them.

hehe Feels good to be called "babe."

I looked for the picture of your moped and couldn't find it. Give me the link, wouldja, huh?

I'm impressed!!

Not hating to go to work is a biggie!!! Keep on keepin' on, De!!

Don't you just love working in/with the earth?

I made a wonderful discovery the other day. I have a bin that I've been throwing yard waste in and had pretty much forgotten it. I was needing some extra potting soil for some plants I was transplating and thought I could throw some of the yard waste down in the bottom of the pot for filler. To my amazement, some worms had crawled in somehow and had been hard at work turning the waste into rich soil!! It smelled so good, too! I've thrown in some coffee grounds so the worms will multiply faster and now I'm going to try and forget about that bin again for a while.

Oh, thank you for reminding me about deep breathing! I have been forgetting to do it! It helps with so much.

Ok! Starting tonight when I walk the dog, I'll do my deep breathing under the eucalytus trees! MMMMMMMMM!!

I'm so happy for you and hubby! Sure makes life easier when they're doing good, doesn't it?

You've impressed me with your long list of books you've read! Don't know how you do it. I can't concentrate past the first page. LOL Maybe when I get my depression back under control...

Thanks, Be-Bop-A-Loo-La!

WOW! Congrats, Angie! Great going!

I saw your post in Spiritual for Sky and me! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your prayer was answered!

This has turned into a great thread.

There is a thread in the Health Forum by Sidony about her dad. (If you haven't read it, you should. It's touching.)

A few of us responded to it and I was reading the one from tranquility and she also mentioned her dad.

The other thing he said to me when he was dying was "I've had a good life. Your mother and four wonderful children, I have nothing to complain about".

I was ten-years-old when I lost my dad to cancer. He was 42. For the most part I have blocked out all memories of him. It was a very traumatizing beginning of my world turning upside down.

After reading what tranquility wrote, I wondered what my father's last words might have been. Kids were not allowed in ICU and he had been whisked away by ambulance and I never saw him again. Three days later he was gone.

I sat looking at the screen and her words, and something told me not to go. So I read it again, thinking I had missed something when all of a sudden, I remembered my mother telling me this.

My father was dying of brain cancer and was in excruciating pain, so the Dr.'s had given him something to knock him out. As he drifted off to sleep, my mother got up to leave. He stopped her and said, "Stop at the store on your way home and buy some candy for the kids. Tell them it's from me."

He died overnight.

I stared at the computer and my jaw dropped. I made a huge connection.

I am obsessed with "kiddie" candy.

You know the kind. Gummi-worms, jawbreakers, candy necklaces etc. It's the first thing I run for. It's my comfort "treat."

T always told me I was soothing the little kid in me.

It might not mean much to those who are reading, but trust me when I tell you. This is huge.

I connected it.

I remember now.

My dad sent me candy.


(Thanks to sidony and tranquility.)

Allthegirls...You had a great day of success....building a fence, painting it, digging potatoes and then cooking them!
Now I want to go outside and mess with my garden!
Patty

Hasn't it, though? I really didn't expect much but I was pleasantly surprised this evening. YAAAAY!!

Everyone