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How Are You Feeling Right Now?

LumberJack

Huggy Bear 🐻 u r warned!
SF Supporter
Hello, Angie! I am working for a Hospice, as my first project; which I am thoroughly enjoying. Thank you for asking. How are you doing? xx
I would like to volunteer with a hospice care facility. When my partner died (cancer) the local org was a helpful resource, and he wasn’t even a patient if that hospital system. It was a group for bereaved loved ones. It was healing to talk about it with others who really understand and more or less know the jargon that goes along with treatment. Being frank about it without getting morbid got me through the first few months of my grief.

So I would like to pay that kindness forward, and I think it would be nice to be of service to older people, because I keep making awful mistakes and I could learn a thing or two. I also just feel better when I pay something forward; I think it’s a human need. :)
 

LumberJack

Huggy Bear 🐻 u r warned!
SF Supporter
I feel really sad physically. When I go up into my head, I feel a little cheerful and creative. But every few minutes I get a psychosomatic pain surge that pulls me back into my body, and I feel like I’m being crushed by a pervasive darkness that is spreading through humanity.

So I’m more or less acknowledging the pain without trying too hard to find out why, and return into the abstract, where I’m comfortable. All of my past PTSD therapists have mentioned that this is an avoidance strategy when small children don’t feel safe. The problem is that I still do it out of habit. Heck, at least I am not using recreational drugs anymore. Progress not perfection.
 

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