You would be right to say I am using humor to kind of help me deal with things…it’s my coping method I guess. I tend to use humor to deflect just about everything. Sorry I took so long to reply this time…I hit a really bad depressive low after the last response becAuse my stepfather had a full time full benefit and retirement job lined up for me where I could have been making 15 to 17 dollars an hour but because of all of my health issues and doctors appointments, I couldn’t accept it….I kind of bad a shut down for a few days.

I really can’t imagine being unable to control what comes out of my mouth 😞 I am being honest when I say I don’t know how you deal with it do they have medications or anything that help you with it? The hair I think happens to a lot of women as they age unfortubately. I used to be a representative for Elizabeth Arden and therefore worked with a lot of older women and you would be surprised at how many had the whiskers lol so don’t feel less confident about it or like you are the only one *hugs*

It sounds like you and I function the same when it comes to our approach with creating a second life for ourselves inside our head…I kinda escape into that world especially when things get bad. But that is also a bad habit of mine because that is when I shut down from being over stressed, from my PTSD or for whatever other reason. I then become completely emotionally unavailable and its like I am just a zombie like shell. Its pretty bad…

What do you do to cope when you feel overwhelmed by everything? That’s my biggest problem is I don’t have any proper coping methods. I was a cutter as a kid starting from age 12 and I just basically holed up inside myself because I couldn’t talk to my therapists about anything since my mom would tell them it was lies anyway….so when things get stressful for one reason or.another I just resort to once again holing up into myself like I used to…