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November 21, 2015 at 12:51 pm #88042
AnonymousGuestWhat easy, fast solutions did you try so to eliminate your emotional distress? These are the ones I tried:
1) Psychiatric (regulated, legal, prescribed, trial-and-error mood altering drugs)
2) Other drugs (unregulated, legal and not, mood altering drugs)
3) Denial and minimization
4) Daydreaming and spacing out
5) Emotional dissociation, going numb
6) Reading about people who “have it worse” including True Crime, horror movies and videos of WW2.
7) Buying new clothes.
8) Placing all my attention on counting calories and listing every ounce of food consumed, weighting food and body daily.
9) OCD: performing a distress-reducing ritual following a distressful thought.
10) Exploding with anger at another (Borderline Personality Disorder)
11) Reading self help books, highlighting, taking notes.
12) Listening to positive thinking audios while jogging.
13) Eating MORE and MORE and MORE.
14) Going to the movies and staying the whole day.
15) Reading anything.
16) Reading about celebrities that are suffering and who commit suicide.
17) Imagining I am in prison or in a WW2 camp and how bad that would be.
18) Imagine I am a hero saving the lives of others.
19) Deciding that from now on, from this minute on, I will be different, not make any mistakes and have a good life.
20) Religion (Born again right this time…baptized)
21) Praying to a god.
22) Being submissive to others, people pleasing.
23) Trying to help others with their problems and forgetting about my own.
24) Distracting via TV.
25) Distracting otherwise.November 30, 2015 at 3:16 pm #88572
SaiishaParticipantOh wow – this is some list Anita! Me – I usually journal, meditate, read a lot, watch old movies. I do wonder about mood-altering drugs sometimes though – they seem like such an easy solution! But I never felt like I could justify them, just because I’ve never had it that bad.
I like the one about imagining you’re a hero and saving the lives of others 🙂
November 30, 2015 at 4:42 pm #88587
jockParticipantyeah what a list anita!
some interesting ones there including ww11 POW camp. I sometimes imagine what it would be like to be captured by ISIS. How easy it would be to get information from me. 🙂 I read recently about tortures suffered in the Spanish inquisition. Just horrific what some people have endured. What I’m saying, is that such suffering puts my current issues into perspective. My life has been blessed for sure.November 30, 2015 at 4:58 pm #88590AnonymousGuestDear Saiisha:
I was always pleased by your comments on my threads and your positive support. I also read recently Lori Deschene’s guidelines to posting on this forum. She wrote: “1. Refrain from spamming or writing solely for the sake of self-promotion.
Repeatedly linking to your products or services without actively participating in conversations constitutes spam.”Sometimes you link to your website where you promote a book or books you wrote as well as online counseling. According to the guideline above, you are not spamming BECAUSE you are also “actively participating in conversation.” So I have no problem with you posting here. It is okay with the guidelines and therefore okay with me.
The problem I have is that I feel your interaction with me (and others, but others make their own choices) may not be sincere since there is money or the possibility of money being made AND you have to communicate with me (I feel less special) so to satisfy the guideline. If I believed in reincarnation and “old souls” maybe I would support your website, but I don’t and therefore I think promoting delusions of reincarnation and such is harmful to people, simply because it is not true. This is why I can’t communicate with you here anymore. Best to you otherwise!
Dear Jack:
Blessing by comparison to WW2 death camps of ISIS torture doesn’t say much for the blessing… ha ha ha. Ha? Glad you are here, Jack!
anitaNovember 30, 2015 at 7:34 pm #88602jockParticipantSaisha
I have to ask about the photo of you looking up/skywards.
Are you looking up to heaven?November 30, 2015 at 7:41 pm #88603jockParticipanteasy fast solutions continued…
solve a puzzle like Sudoku
eat some wafer biscuits/carrot cake/lamington with coffee
watch a good movie (I want to see the new stallone Rocky movie. I hear it is good)
have a beer
eat some rice pudding
drink my favourite orange juice
play some mahjong
daydream about how confident/successful I am that I have to knock back million dollar offers for an exclusive interviewNovember 30, 2015 at 9:21 pm #88611
TriangleSunParticipantJohn Muir once said “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
I really believe if people would regularly go for hikes and enjoy nature around them they wouldn’t feel so depressed.
December 1, 2015 at 8:51 am #88628AnonymousGuestDear Jack:
You are already confident and succussful some of the time and you can be these things more and more of the time!
Dear TriangleSun:
Hikes are great. I hike every day. The weather makes it possible. Hiking in a hot and humid or heavily raining place would be impossible for me, too uncomfortable. But yes, I do hike. That is an effective way to releive stress even though even that can be overly done.
anita
December 1, 2015 at 1:07 pm #88658jockParticipantjust saying hi anita
thanks for your posts and have a nice dayDecember 1, 2015 at 2:44 pm #88674AnonymousGuestThank you, Jack. You know how much I care that you are here! Knowing you are here makes my day every time!
anitaDecember 1, 2015 at 4:18 pm #88680SaiishaParticipantHi Anita – Thanks for your honest feedback on how you feel about me, my perspectives and pushing my website. But you’re right, I’m also here to support the TinyBuddha community just for service’s sake. I do believe the positive energy we put out will help the planet even if it’s only in small ways. When I do add links to my website, they’re it’s only when I feel it’s relevant to the person who might need it.
As for you – I know that you’re a self-proclaimed atheist, that you don’t believe in God, religion or reincarnation, and that’s perfectly ok with me!! I’m not trying to get you to buy into anything I say 🙂 I’m sincerely only trying to connect, support and communicate with the community here, including you. But you said you’d rather not communicate with me, so I’ll stop responding to your threads – sorry if I caused any harm to you – if so, it was unintentional.
Jack – I’m only looking up at trees 🙂
December 1, 2015 at 5:16 pm #88683AnonymousGuestDear Saiisha:
Your replies and communications with me have always been gracious, so I have no complaints. It is a matter of principle for me, to not support what I do not believe in. Take care and be well:
anitaDecember 1, 2015 at 5:17 pm #88684AnonymousGuest…
December 1, 2015 at 5:46 pm #88685AnonymousGuest* One more thing: I am here not to provide service to others- I am not that arrogant. I am here to LEARN and help myself. My hope and intent is for my participation here to be a Win-Win proposition: win for me and win for (most or some) others. But I am not providing service, or giving my time for the benefit of others. I am here for me!
anita
December 1, 2015 at 5:52 pm #88686SaiishaParticipantAnd that’s absolutely fine with me Anita – I agree, we learn through our life, our experiences, our connections – as I’ve learned from you before and I’m learning from you now 🙂 I hope I’m never arrogant enough to think that I’m any better than anyone else – that’s not my point of serving and supporting the community here – as I said, my only hope is to add to the positive energy on the planet; and if people think they can learn something from me, that’s great; and if they don’t that’s just fine too!
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