"Healing Tip o' the Day #672" by Flick SnotGrass

[Flick_SnotGrass]

"Healing Tip o' the Day #672" by Flick SnotGrass

Tip #672 is Listen to some Spike Milligan and sing either "I'm walking Backwards to Christmas" OR "The Ying Tong Song"

KARAOKE STYLE AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.

So, Like I said, I was born with an extremely severe case of excema....

I don't want to wallow

[well maybe just half a cup then]

but there were days in my early teens with:

my face,

neck,

arms,

knees

etc

bleeding, scabby

and worse

over-exhausted from very little sleep, due to the red raw night scratching,

[adrenal fatigue too probably]

that I realized to my horror that

Valerie,

Vyonne,

[insert Girl's Name here]

were ALWAYS GOING TO BE WASHING THEIR HAIR!!

They either had very dirty hair OR they didn't want to have a cup of tea with me.

The Doctors of the Day said my condition was "Genetic" and "There is nothing we can do for Flick" and "Sorry about that but he is an interesting specimen, er ... can I let my students have a prod at his hide" and "So on".

"Nothing can be done".!!!!

I plumbed depths of black helpless depression back in those dark days of 1962.

Fortunately I have a stubborn streak.

"Bloody difficult sod" is how my mother puts it, bless her cotton socks.

I found a furiously angry part of myself that said "Bugger that!" and worse

and I began my search for tools and techniques that could heal me....

.... I don't have scabs anymore .... I'm not called 'Flick ~ The Big Red Dog', anymore either

Steal from me...

no really....

I have a long list of tools that I use to this day that I have picked up, used and honed over the years and here's todays Healing Tip o' the Day #672 just for you....

#672 - Listen to some Spike Milligan and sing either "I'm walking Backwards to Christmas" OR "The Ying Tong Song" KARAOKE STYLE AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.

"Why?"

Because, Laughter produces endorphins and beneficial 'feel good' neurotransmitters.

Your breathing will improve your Heart Rate Variability, HRV and will help calm you.

It is also quite difficult to be bloody miserable while singing The Ying Tong Song out loud.

Try it, you'll see.

Be better than well,

Flick SnotGrass

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Nat, that's exactly what I'm after, thanks.

Shell? Dools? A N Others?

Flick

PS: Absolutely drop dead gorgeous day here on The Goldie

[Guest_1055]

Hi Flick... It took me a while to work out what Goldie was.. Your hair colour or what. Then I read it just then, and oh yeah The GoldCoast. ( the Queensland Gold Coast).

I think I would like people that post on Beyond Blue to experience a sense of not feeling alone and like they are important and do matter to somebody.

Shell

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Hi Shell,

Yes The Goldie ~ The Goldcoast o' the Land o' Oz.

I LOVE how you Ozzies contract everything .... arvo, Maccas, Brizzy, Coolie...The Goldie....so funny..."Let's Talk Strine 2.0"...

I digress.

Shell You wrote "I would like people that post on Beyond Blue to experience a sense of not feeling alone and like they are important and do matter to somebody."

Nice.

Any special techniques you use to help make that happen?

I can already tell that people are quite Scottish, oops sorry, Skittish about posting on BB.

They seem too often to Post something and then fade away back into the dark recesses ... I'd like to find some ways to draw them back by the fireside and have a nice safe encouraging chat...have a virtual cuppa....maybe learn the odd healing tip from folks who've been there and learned how to get out of hell if you fall back in the poop.

Time for a cuppa...I'll be mother,

Flick SnotGrass

[Quercus]

Thanks Shelley 😊

See Flick I'm not alone in the universe (Shelley I thought Goldie was the Goldfields in WA haha).

Another thought Flick someone told me once the forums give people validation. That they matter. That other's care. So I think Shelley has a point there too.

❤ Nat

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Nat you are right, you are not alone.

Come on you two!!

Shell, Nat, Can't you hear my Ocker accent when I write 'The Goldie"?

What about my Bogan?

Surely your can't mistake my "The Goldie" for "Kalgoorlie"!!!...come on both of you, you are teasing me just because I'm a poor over defensive passive hostile Pom.

Flcik SnotGrass

~

see what you two just did to me?! You made me misspell my name.

[Croix]

Dear Warm and Contemplative Flick (with a wave to all)~

I was passing in my leather omnibus and saw your thread. It's fun, and you are right, there should be a lot more of it.

You did ask what we think people here need.

Well there is one thing that pops up time and time again. The idea that someone is not important enough, or that their illness or problem is not bad enough to post here.

There must be an awful lot of people that never post for such reasons, we only see the ones that did overcome their diffidence. I have a feeling in many cases the worse the illness then the lower self esteem becomes and this view gets stronger as a result.

Incidentally do you think the MP Fish Slapping Dance might have been a a crude attempt at using electrocuticals?

Croix (The deadly earnest walrus)

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Dear Deadly Earnest Walrus,

Thank you so much for your reply...and a big congratulations for still having an intact sense of humo(u)r.

Yes, you are quite correct Croix, recent studies show that The Monty Python Fish Slapping Dance was indeed an early attempt 'by the authorities' to introduce the use of 'electroceuticals' to General Public but he was having none of it.

I agree Croix, I meet a lot of people in my line of work that have been so beaten down by "Life" or "The Pressures of Living" or "Whatever" that they don't seem to know that they can do something to break the Hell Cycle ... like chatting on BB and picking up a few "tips 'n' tricks" to help interrupt the misery patterns.

As you can probably tell, I find humour, humor and laughter to be very handy tools to put the whirld back in perspective....that and pig farmers.

You see I used to live in The West Country of England...
on Siston Common...
They talk funny over there.
Reg, was a pig farmer, he lived on Siston Common too.
Here's what he taught me*:
"Loif, wa' a caper,
Wa' a cop.
Furst yer born,
then yer grow,
then yer drop.
Ge' merried,
'ave kids,
go t' werk,
t' earn some quids,
And then you Die,
Goodbye,
wa' a caper,
wa' a cop!"

Best,

Flick

*Translation available upon request

[Doolhof]

what is it each of you are wanting to encourage happening here in this safe BB environment?

Hi Flick and All,

I've not been on the forum for a while due to physical issues and a "holiday" in hospital. I've not read other people's answers to your question yet, so will respond from what I am thinking and feeling right now.

I joined this forum at a time when I felt I had no hope, my mind was in a very dark place, and I felt like no living soul around me cared for me or even knew I existed.

Over the time I have spent on the forum, I have tried to show others encouragement, give them hope in their own ability to make changes in their lives and to let them know that someone out there does care for them. Even in the most horrid dark moments of life people do care and are there to help and support you.

For me, feeling validated, accepted, acknowledged, cared for and recognised provides me with hope, a realisation that I someone is aware I am here.

Each of us have to find our own pathways to acceptance, recovery, changing our thoughts and attitudes. A gentle nudge along the way from others may be enough to trigger a sense of the possibility life doesn't have to be such a struggle.

I'm wanting to help others as I too have been helped. To be able to share knowledge and understanding, to offer encouragement.

This forum no doubt means different things to many people. Some may find it helpful to receive advice and suggestions, some may find it beneficial to just read and never contact anyone here, some may find it a very helpful place to vent, a place where they feel safe to go over issues time and time again, for them it may be healing.

None of us know what is truly beneficial to someone else. Sometimes it can be a struggle to find what works in my own life and put that into practice!

Mental health issues! Who knows what the answer is. I just try to be there for others.

Cheers from Mrs. D. (Dools)

[Flick_SnotGrass]

Dools, a thousand apologies for not responding sooner.

I agree this whole business of MH is hugely complicated....I woke up this morning and Brian popped in the idea that I have often held myself back in the past because I didn't want to get better....I'll be damned rather than re-examine old hurts, slights and traumas....I WAS IN THE RIGHT DAMMIT!!!....ancient infantile tantrum really.....and then I got to thinking maybe a chunk of MH is to do with me growing up?

There, that feels better...time for tea Dools? Kettle's on.

Flick

[Quercus]

Hi Flick,

Saw elsewhere that you've been thrown by something. I just want to check if you're ok.

If you want to talk about it please do. Croix told me once people learn and benefit not only from our successes and highs but also from our low moments.

He has solid advice. I used to worry about bringing people down too. But the reality is people can choose not to read or interact if they feel they can't cope with your lows. But...Others will learn by watching how you manage the low. And others find purpose in helping others pick themselves back up.

Do you want to talk about it?