Anxiety and depression thread (Please read OP)

It can do. Any change to the system can have an affect on ya. Even cutting back on coffee, or tea, just to use an example, will change your system. So changing or slowly weaning your system off of a medication will upset your sleep.

Ground down by anxiety and worries here. There is no time to discharge or take stock of things. Always something to do or some fire to put out.

Just finished visiting someone in hospital who is very sick from the system and is a casualty of our dumb stupid existence in 2023.

Sunday morning is so quiet and peaceful compared to the rest of the week.

I think it's very difficult to find peace and quiet. I am burned out from running around on the hamster wheel. It's just getting faster, more impersonal and more competitive. It's ridiculous.

Similar experiences over here too. Had a turnstile of minor events that just piled on me. My Internet provider has been being a jerk lately, like a loan shark that thinks I owe them money. Walloping me at a moment's notice. Have been trying to swap over a contract, which requires a new sim, a new router, etc. A family member called their customer service, cancelled one contract, and thought 'done, no more issues'... nope. They cancelled both, and left us without internet for a few days. (Outside of our phones, we were cut off).

Then the shower died. It's still under warranty, but it's meant cold showers for the last number of days.

Also trying to sort out some accounts information that's messing with my finances. Things changed as the events of the last few years are winding down, and I missed an update to the system.

And my therapist has me writing a letter to a deceased loved one, as part of a task. It's genuinely one of the toughest things I've had to do. It would be easier to write an essay about quantum mechanics, tbh. And I know sweet absolutely nothing about quantum mechanics.

Completely overwhelmed here to be honest. Too much problems, personally and with family. Can't relax or enjoy free time, can't focus on work and chores. I really need a year away to step outside all the **** and decompress.

It's like covid lockdown for 10 years.

It's our flight or fight response, somewhat, I believe. That nothing is happening means 'something' might happen. Like if we were trapped in a fire, the 'this is fine' meme would apply more aptly.

I know you've had some stressors in your life recently, that might have set things off, I imagine. Things being 'calm' means waiting for something else to happen, which creates the anxiety.

So irritated all day with people. I hope this passes. I'll end up getting myself in trouble.

The amount of problems we carry around with us all our lives and the problems of our families instead of dealing with the problems or accepting them is ridiculous. We end up just passing them on to the next generation. It's a real cultural thing where we just soldier on year after year. Endlessly distracted instead of dealing with things.

Taking a day off as I have family related hospital appointment in the afternoon. Can't really focus on anything in the meantime. Or relax. Loads of things rattling around in my mind.

I've had that. where even a movie can strike a nerve and I have to switch it off.

Try and get out of the house, or journal, or do something to get the energy out of your system- be it exercise, or just putting music on and working out to it.

The unfortunate thing is that while there has been more of an emphasis on mental health in recent years, there just isn't the resources available for it in schools. I mean, the words are there, but the actual 'actions' are not. And with teachers given less and less resources, and stuff being pushed on them regarding classes or class material, there's even LESS emphasis on mental health. And I've known a few teachers, can count a couples as acquaintances, and they have serious issues themselves. Issues that they haven't addressed, so how can they help someone when they are letting their own issues fester? Knew one who would drive to work with shades on, in the autumn, or winter... cos she was sporting a hangover from the night before.

I also know someone who took their own life about two or three weeks ago. They were twelve years old.

I'd love to think that mental health has gotten somewhat 'better' in how it's taught, but it's not so much in how it's experienced. Even according to studies, the rate of mental health problems have steadily increased. And that was from a study printed two years before the pandemic.

I think I had one class about meditation in school, and it was from a substitute teacher. Mental health was rarely if ever discussed. The old Irish attitude to mental health, which seems to have changed very little, if at all.

Went to the appointment. Wrote down what I needed to say. He listened. I felt better. Have a plan, just need to stick to my side of the bargain.