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Anyone else feel like this? Too tired to even lie to myself anymore,
when I want to frown I force myself to smile, when I want to cry I laugh. But lately its been catching up too me and its getting harder to keep it up! Feel like I'm heading for a breakdown of epic proportions!
Maybe I just need to take a step back and catch my breath for a moment before life decides to start throwing more BS my way??
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Hi again solo.
To an extent you are right...life does throw bs our way. But you are also in charge of your own train of life.
Eg. Money, lack thereof an issue? Work harder, get a job/second job, defer study and work in the mines for 2 years etc.
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Its easy to fall into a rut. If you know how its easy to climb out of it.
Tony WK
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Hi again tony! Thanks for taking time to reply
Not really financial issues that has never really been a problem! "Family wealth blah blah' more like just being able to put up with myself on a daily basis sort of thing.
Some of the hardest times for me are being alone with my own thoughts! And I've been getting a lot of me time which has me thinking 24/7, it kinda feels if I don't get stuff off my chest at a faster rate then I'm going to breakdown if that makes sense??
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Many times I have seen people laugh at funerals, it's certainly not that they are happy but it's an impluse a reaction to seeing someone they love pass away, they don't mean it and people give them strange looks, but they can't help it, and when they are by themselves that's when the flood gates open, and the reality sets in.
Maybe it's their reaction to stop themselves from crying, a defense mechanism, no different than laughing about something we are afraid of, and then asked by someone 'why are you laughing this is serious'.
Being alone will cause you to think negative thoughts, and then they multiply in heaps and bounds, and by saying them to yourself so that you can get them off your chest is not the way to handle them all.
You need a person qualified or not, but preferrable qualfied to talk to, because you can never get rid of this feeling by yourself, it only goes around and around in circles and only going downwards. Geoff.
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