Anxiety support, Hand hold or chit chat come say hi #2

[Fairydust26]

Hi everyone this is part 2 as the original thread is full up! But as the title says this thread is support for all that are struggling and could do with a handhold and a chit chat so come and say hello😊.

Harlevie how are you today? Hope you are okay.
I bought an electric sander today. It is the most satisfying thing ever. However the mess of my house is starting to get to me. My bedroom is a complete mess as I have most of my sitting room in there. Most of my kitchen is in the shed but everything is untidy. I am not the neatest person in the world to begin with but this is really bad, even for me.
I woke up at 6 this morning with painting, sanding and mess on my mind.

@Hasbirabbi Wasn't being patronising but if you think I was then that's fine dear 

No men aren't the only danger which is why I said you should be careful of who you meet.

I get that a lot of blame goes on men and that it can be relentless but you should be mad at the assholes who make this a fact not the women who just want to protect themselves.

For someone who says they've been mistreated you're not giving us the common courtesy of respect.

@Iblinkedandiamold I find DIY very relaxing actually when the kids are not around, naturally - especially painting.

When I did the woodwork part in Design and Texhnology my job was always sanding with the manual sanding sheets or those sanding blocks. Couldn't stand the wood glue it gave me headaches.

I don't like it bit I don't hate it either. I am loving the sanding though, I don't like the dust it's creating though.
I do love the feeling when it's done. There is a real sense of pride and accomplishment.
I have the whole summer to complete my tasks although it should only take a few weeks.
Sitting room/Kitchen is the biggest most daunting though.

I think it's the friction I enjoyed. I also loved using the paper shredder.

Oh I love shredding. I like to save up my papers and have a pile to shred.

Not & Iblinked me too it’s very satisfying however not so much when the shredder gets clogged😆.

The band Oasis were just genius. Listening on Spotify while cleaning my walls down.
Singing at the top of lungs too. It's okay though, the neighbours are out.

Hi, I've not been on here in a while as I'm busy being a mum and not finding it too hard. I do take a sedating mood stabiliser at night so my dh has been doing the night feeds. I have a routine now of walking up with the baby anytime between 4:30 - 9 am, feeding then expressing. I sometimes express later in the day is my babys sleeping and I'm not doing anything else. Yesterday was nice but stressful as we visited the in laws. My baby slept well all morning and we arrived for lunch. I fed then expressed then put the bottle in the fridge. It was a small lunch as I was feeding at the same time and in the afternoon I was contemplating getting a snack but decided to save my appetite for dinner. I was drinking lots but anxious and I kept asking if we could use the bottle as a top up as I was flagging. I also concidered taking my prescribed (if I need it) afternoon meds but decided I didn't need it. Dh wanted to save the bottle for night but we forgot. During dinner, we heard my dhs grandma may have had a stroke (turned out to be an infection/low blood sugar). I'd had nightmares about strokes during pregnancy when a relative of mine died as I work in a stroke center. So I went out of the room to feed, then we did family photos and went home. So overnight dd was sick like she more often is with formula. Last night she was at night I helped my dh but last night I felt too groggy so just went to the loo and back to bed. Dh put dd on the carpeted floor, I went to pick her up put dh touched me as I was in the way so I just went back to bed and had really leaky boobs this morning and couldn't use the pump as our only bottle that fits it in at the in-laws. I've ordered more.

Embrace glad you're doing well.
I think I have been doing too much. Yesterday and today I am exhausted. I am only up but I already feel like going back to bed.
I am usual tired at my time of month but not like this.
Also I have been eating nothing but junk food which isn't helping either with energy.
Watching ice road truckers trying to get the motivation to start paininting again.

Iblinkedandiamold I hope your feeling better today and enjoying the weather?.

Something to make ye all smile.
I am having a disaster few days. Managed somehow to push my hutch thing off the side board, breaking all the glasses and cups inside. I broke my long handle paint roller, today while putting up shelves I broke my drill and very nearly broke my wrist too. I was more upset that it ruained my nice wall.
Not to mention the many cuts and bruises I've collected along the way. I don't think I should do DIY.
Feeling good though.
How is everyone else doing?

Oh no Iblinkedandiamold I never rains it pours as they say😆 glad to hear your doing well. I’ve been good however feeling quite anxious tonight not sure why hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow after a good night sleep fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed. A good night's sleep is very important.

Hello can I join you ? Need some advice.
Something happened to me that upset me and I just can't get it out of my head.... I didn't handle a situation well and someone was really nasty to me. I feel so hurt and guilty. This has been going on for weeks. I Cant resolve the issue as the person involved refuses to speak to me. I need to move on and forget it but don't know how to.
I feel so stressed and tense.
It's affected my confidence and I have felt unhappy all summer.
Anyone got any advice ?

Iblinkedandiamold feel abit better today went to the gym so I think that’s helped a lot, how are you doing today?.

Travelledtheworld of course welcome I don’t have the best advice I’m afraid hopefully someone will come along that has some words of wisdom but have you thought about maybe writing a letter to this person you don’t have to send it to them but just writing it down and getting it out of your system it may help you move forward.

I second fairys advice on writing. I'm feeling pretty stressed, don't want to go into detail but I woke up OK, didn't take my morning 25 meds, spoke to my keyworker who said if you forget to take it in the morning, don't take extra at night, just means I'm improving if I don't feel its nessersary. It's evening and I feel more anxious than normal since about 4pm when baby foiled my nap time plans by doing her only poo of the day then staying awake for feeding until dinner. Nice if her to sleep during mealtimes as that's usually her wakey time... I'm now having far too much ice cream and praying she stays asleep until my dh wakes up... We do shifts overnight.

I am on day 3 of my get away. My sister has just left she has to work tomorrow. She walked the legs off me yesterday. I stiff and sore but it was worth it. Nice to have a day to chill out.
Hope ye are all keeping well.

Hi. I just wanted to say hello and can I join in? You all seem so nice and supportive on here.
I suffer from anxiety. I used to have quite bad health anxiety, then it moved onto just general anxiety but the HA was always there in the background and surfaces every now and again. I used to post on a quite well known anxiety forum but I can't believe how some of the members there can be towards people who are obviously suffering. Not all, just some of them, so its so nice to see how lovely you all seem to be here.
I'm not on medication. I'm a bit scared of meds tbh, although I know they do help. I'm currently on antibiotics for a uti (first day) and I'm getting a bit stressed about them - side effects and all.
My anxiety is about to take off big time so I hope getting some stuff out of my head might help

Iblinkedandiamold hope your enjoying yourself😊

Of course Olivesandwine welcome big hugs for you I know the struggle with HA too well I go through stages with it at the moment I seem to be doing ok on the whole anxiety front but as we all know it can rear it’s ugly head at any moment!. Hopefully you’ll find some comfort posting here it.

Thank you Fairydust. I'm sure I will be boring the pants off everyone with my ramblings before long. It helps to put things into perspective and get other points of view.
Have a restful night everyone x

Hi olivesandwine - welcome, I love my olive this year since being pregnant. I'm on medication but only as a last resort and I'm worried about the side effects. So is my dh so he reminds me quetiapine that I'm on is a new medication and the effects are quite unknown. My dh has a friend in his 20s who has been on meds for OCD/asoergers diagnosed in his teens and know has kidney issues. It's a risk benifit though and as I was pregnant and refused citalopram ss was mentened and I felt like my life would fall apart. Its been a miracle med if I'm honest, now I've given birth, I was not mentally well for the first couple of weeks postnataly (sleep deprivation +busy ward +med change +jaudice baby +heat). Now I'm feeling fine and have a consultant review in December so hope to come off the meds for then. Whilst I've never been diagnosed with health anxiety, I went into hospital when my waters broke and was on iv antibiotics for 24 hours and hormone induction and the cannulas and drips were actually more distressing to be than the long labour. I was worried about allergies on the baby (antibiotics) and the hormone effect for my with meds.

How’s everyone doing? Hope you all have a peaceful weekend.

Not great fairydust. I’m totally preoccupied with my health at the moment. Uti symptoms not getting any better and I’m desperate for the loo. I’m sure a lot of this is in my head and I’m making it worse but this is what I tend to do. With anything health related, if it doesn’t clear up straight away I make it into something it’s not.

Pigging anxiety!

Sorry to hear that Olivesandwine it really can be deliberating at times can’t it. Look up The Anxiety Guy on YouTube he has loads of helpful videos about health anxiety which you might find useful.