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How Are You Feeling Right Now?
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you are a good mother. i hope he eventually starts to act mature and get the help he needs. you have tried everything you can to help him. maybe the carrot and the stick. offer some type of support to help him like a gift card etc. as long as he goes for help, if not then nothing, tell him you won't enable him. in most cases kids do get better with a little tough love so i hope he finally gets it. please don't blame yourself you are doing the right thig.
mike....
mike....
not doing great but will be ok. i'm fighting nasty drain flies which is a major problem in the area, i was losing the war but after agressive fighting i'm finally winning. pain of course has been bad and now have a damned bug, my wife wouldn't even let me go to the doctor appointment yesterday because she said i was too sick to drive lol.
i have been having trouble sleeping lately, i didn't sleep again last night. it may be the new med i'll tell my doctor next week when i go. i am safe and not really suicidal but the last month or 2 those thoughts are back and i have to fight harder to get rid of them. like i said will be ok
mike
i have been having trouble sleeping lately, i didn't sleep again last night. it may be the new med i'll tell my doctor next week when i go. i am safe and not really suicidal but the last month or 2 those thoughts are back and i have to fight harder to get rid of them. like i said will be ok
mike
TL; DR: I found out that an astonishing proportion of people claiming membership in the Body of the Christ don’t bother with reading, much less try to understand, the books they claim should be the law of the land. 🙈
STORY TIME:
When I was a church going teenager, I was very serious about reading and understanding scripture. How couldn’t one think that the literal word of God is the most important thing to study??? I like to talk through what I read, to get other perspectives, and to say things out loud to avoid the frequent mistakes I make when something makes total sense in my mind, but when I put words to it, it’s absurd.
When I tried to talk scripture with my peers, I couldn’t find one person who bothered to care. They would read the verses and even memorize some, but ask them how, for example, the different synoptic gospels compare, or what is a scriptural approach to a given moral dilemma- blank stares.
This was a factor in my decision to leave the church, although it was not sufficient on its own. Coming out to myself was probably the last push. In the church I attended, being openly gay was grounds for excommunication.
As for other churches (evangelical) that I visited, there were basically 3 things that were not to be tolerated: LDS members, anyone who believes the state should not have jurisdiction over women’s medical decisions, and the gays. Well, I was all three so I guess I’m toast! I’m skipping over the biblical contradictions and the case for agnosticism, but I considered multiple perspectives before I left.
STORY TIME:
When I was a church going teenager, I was very serious about reading and understanding scripture. How couldn’t one think that the literal word of God is the most important thing to study??? I like to talk through what I read, to get other perspectives, and to say things out loud to avoid the frequent mistakes I make when something makes total sense in my mind, but when I put words to it, it’s absurd.
When I tried to talk scripture with my peers, I couldn’t find one person who bothered to care. They would read the verses and even memorize some, but ask them how, for example, the different synoptic gospels compare, or what is a scriptural approach to a given moral dilemma- blank stares.
This was a factor in my decision to leave the church, although it was not sufficient on its own. Coming out to myself was probably the last push. In the church I attended, being openly gay was grounds for excommunication.
As for other churches (evangelical) that I visited, there were basically 3 things that were not to be tolerated: LDS members, anyone who believes the state should not have jurisdiction over women’s medical decisions, and the gays. Well, I was all three so I guess I’m toast! I’m skipping over the biblical contradictions and the case for agnosticism, but I considered multiple perspectives before I left.
I’ve been sick in the afternoon with high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) for two or three consecutive days before going to the gym. Each time, I have to sit or lie restlessly for one or two hours waiting to recover. Not sure if it’s because my long-acting insulin doses are off schedule, or I just need more. Bouts of hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia seem to occur once every season. It’s quite tedious and disruptive, and I don’t respond well to losing control.
I don't (thank goodness) have blood sugar swings, despite my outright addiction to white sugar.
I do sweat like crazy, so if I'm out in the sun too long I lose enough electrolytes to get sick and have to lie down. I think I can relate to that sick feeling you mentioned a bit. It's easy for me to do because the climate is so dry that I don't even notice that I'm sweating.
I do sweat like crazy, so if I'm out in the sun too long I lose enough electrolytes to get sick and have to lie down. I think I can relate to that sick feeling you mentioned a bit. It's easy for me to do because the climate is so dry that I don't even notice that I'm sweating.
I'm feeling better. I did some more exercise in the form of lifting boxes looking for tools that I misplaced. It got my HR up so I'm counting it. Also spent 2 hrs wandering around Target because my logically put together list had me going back and forth from one corner of the store to the other. According to my app, I got 7500 steps in today, with 3,000 or so during the time I was shopping. So I'm feeling that good kind of tired. I'm noticing that I'm way less sad, too. I did an extra meditation session and made myself a steak that came out fantastically** for being the 2nd effort in at least 4 years. Had a shower just now. I think it was doing this stuff that got me out of my hamster wheel thoughts and have my mind in the present. I was really trying to do just one thing at a time so I could mindfully focus on it, but I still had 4 things going at once. This is bad for me because I forget to finish things when I keep going from one thing to another, ad infinitum. At least 4 is progress, because that's down from too many to even bother counting. Usually I just give up and call it good if I knock out 3 large-ish items from my to-do list (haha j/k, like I make a list, lol 
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