Thank you so much for your lovely post Grandy and please don’t feel bad - you’ve been having it tough for a long time I know, and now you have a heavy cold or virus. You really do need to go to your GP. I hope you have been before this weekend. Have you had the flu shot ? Pleeeease look after yourself and get better Grandy. 😘🤗
Yes the world is a big place and full of lonely people, in the western world especially. In Australia there is a lot that’s contradictory and hard to understand. All the stories in the media about how communities pull together magnificently when there’s a cyclone or a fire, and yet we here on this forum, and other places of course, know painfully well how people with PTSD/anxiety/depression are avoided or ignored as if we have some highly contagious deadly disease. Someone on this forum said in the last few days they had cancer and now no support, but got flowers when they had babies. SO hard to understand, SO painful, SO sad.
I said to Birdy recently “Like many other people on B.B. your posts are so positive, helpful, supportive, constructive it’s hard to understand that you are dealing with anxiety/depression too,” and I think the same of you too Grandy when I’ve read some of your posts to other people.
Written words can be so misleading can’t they. The same with how people look - there are some out there who look really well, healthy and like they are happy with their lives, yet inside they are broken and falling to bits.
If you look at my last post to Birdy on 2 May and read the para starting “So I’ve been doing the thinking... “ that will tell you a bit about me.
Since my growing up years ... we’ll a lot has happened, good and bad, but mixed in and around it all has been the search for love, emotional security and comfort, a feeling of belonging, all that sort of thing, but never found what I really need. Then this year a minor situation in the general scheme of things happened and it hit me really hard. And here I am now trying to manage depression and anxiety with even less love, emotional security and comfort, and a feeling of belonging than I had before. I feel flattened - it’s just about wiped me out Grandy. Emotionally I’m one step forward and one or two back all the time. I don’t seem to be able to get back on my feet. I really don’t know how I’ll keep going like this
Thank you for being here and listening Grandy, and for your wonderful hugs. I’m sending love ❤️ and big warm squishy hugs 🤗 🤗🤗🤗 back to you.
