How Are You Feeling Right Now?

[LumberJack]

Thanks. Basically Ozempic made it hard to eat. It paralyzes the stomach so eventually my stomach shrank too. I just couldn't tolerate the 4 to 5 days of hardly eating anything because of the full feeling. Last year I know French fries were stuck in my stomach for about 3 days. I know because they came back up after throwing up. It's not a healthy way to lose weight but it was also controlling my diabetes so I barely needed the meds. I just hated the side effects. I hope I could lose it with will power and exercise but i don't have the ability to do even a 30 minute walk. I get what you mean though. I also have thyroid supplements and yeah losing weight is hard but possible.

I didn't know that was how Ozempic worked. I'm very sorry to hear that food was stuck in your system for 3 days! That cannot be healthy. One thing I can say is that relying on willpower is kind of like trying to hold a 1-lb bag of sugar in your hand above your neck level. You can do it easily for a few minutes, and probably not too difficult to go even an hour. However, trying to do it for a whole day is going to get more difficult than we might expect and then it's going to fall over.

I also have a heck of a time getting myself to exercise. I actually got help with it when I participated in a little group class on ADHD skills. The advice was to have sort of like an ideal target, e.g., 30 min walk 4x/week, but also have a minimum goal, e.g., 10 min of stretching 2x/week. I am, at least, stretching so better than nothing. If you would like to do a 30 min walk, would it be worth trying to go for just 10 and build from there? No pressure - we all have our reasons.

 

[crowgarden]

it's my birthday and i don't feel anything. i wasn't exited, i didn't care about the presents, i gave the cake to someone else and i locked myself in my room the whole day. i'm just so disappointed. i promised myself i'd be dead by now.

 

[TragicReality]

I didn't know that was how Ozempic worked. I'm very sorry to hear that food was stuck in your system for 3 days! That cannot be healthy. One thing I can say is that relying on willpower is kind of like trying to hold a 1-lb bag of sugar in your hand above your neck level. You can do it easily for a few minutes, and probably not too difficult to go even an hour. However, trying to do it for a whole day is going to get more difficult than we might expect and then it's going to fall over.

I also have a heck of a time getting myself to exercise. I actually got help with it when I participated in a little group class on ADHD skills. The advice was to have sort of like an ideal target, e.g., 30 min walk 4x/week, but also have a minimum goal, e.g., 10 min of stretching 2x/week. I am, at least, stretching so better than nothing. If you would like to do a 30 min walk, would it be worth trying to go for just 10 and build from there? No pressure - we all have our reasons.

Yes I need to start moving, even stretching to start. It's amazing how quickly a person gets weak soon just laying around. Thank you

 

[TragicReality]

it's my birthday and i don't feel anything. i wasn't exited, i didn't care about the presents, i gave the cake to someone else and i locked myself in my room the whole day. i'm just so disappointed. i promised myself i'd be dead by now.

I hope it's ok to say happy birthday. I get it though, one or more years I just hoped nobody would say or notice my birthday. But you matter. How can we help ? If talking here helps keep doing it. I know people here care about each other, so at least you know your safe to talk here.

 

[Holding my breath]

Tired and very sore. Lower back and both knees giving me considerable pain. Knees lock up after just 10 minutes of not moving. I’m wandering around looking like I’m 90! Hobbling and going downstairs one at a time. Dread to think what I’ll be like when I’m actually old!

 

[Lane]

I was wondering how you're doing @Lane, glad to see you around. Hope the issues resolve without distress.

Thanks @seabird. Hope youre having a good day

 

[crowgarden]

i haven't felt an ounce of comfort in months

 

[Lane]

i haven't felt an ounce of comfort in months

Sorry life is so hard right now @cinnnamonflakez. I hope you can sneak in some self care

 

[Lane]

So upset. Went to see psychiatrist today and at the weigh in i gained 15 lbs. 😪

 

[Inastorm]

So upset. Went to see psychiatrist today and at the weigh in i gained 15 lbs. 😪

Sorry @Lane, youll get on top of it in the new year.

 

[may71]

it's my birthday and i don't feel anything

I wish it had been a happy birthday.

Sending hugs if you would like hugs

 

[Windhover]

Uncomfortably sentimental or more like a kind of torturous obsession with the walks I used to take to shops in Sydney especially the amazingly good food in a certain suburb, the coastal trail at Coogee, and the runs back at the town I used to live. I no longer belong anywhere. My mind could be okay again if I hadn't lost my home. I'm tired of feeling like garbage.

 

[SillyOldBear]

God, I hate pain!!!!!

 

[cymbele]

Feel bad about declining volunteer opportunities at the church. I have developed arthritis in my hip which causes me to be uncomfortable sitting for long periods of time and that is what my volunteer task requires. I still have two appointments to volunteer to try out the hip but i'm still unsure. Also they doubled the size of the sanctuary and I'm not sure I can see the stage. But they need the help but maybe my time is up. I've been doing this particular opportunity for over 5 years anyway.

 

[Unenthusiastic]

Feel bad about declining volunteer opportunities at the church. I have developed arthritis in my hip which causes me to be uncomfortable sitting for long periods of time and that is what my volunteer task requires. I still have two appointments to volunteer to try out the hip but i'm still unsure. Also they doubled the size of the sanctuary and I'm not sure I can see the stage. But they need the help but maybe my time is up. I've been doing this particular opportunity for over 5 years anyway.

Hmm. Is there any way you can be accomodated? A special chair, perhaps? Or even a bed? lol

 

[MAC0]

Tired got woke up at 5am by my cat was hoping for a good nights sleep as I feel I might be making myself ill by worry and stress on top of everything else but my cat went to do its business and after always comes out of there running around like a manic but tonight she decided part of that was to jump up on me and around my room

 

[Inanimate]

Anxious about going back to school in a month. I’m taking just one class in order to ease myself back into academia, but it still feels like an abrupt change of pace from dropping every class all at once and spending the next eleven years in a depressive coma - isolated from everything I had convinced myself to care about. I’m not a mere “returning student”; I‘m a forgotten ghost who has to learn to be human again. All of the sudden, I’m supposed to decide my future when I still haven’t made up my mind on whether or not I want to be present. I didn’t ask to be a teacher, or scientist, or a goddamn astronaut; all I’m trying to accomplish is to be fucking normal.

 

[LumberJack]

it's my birthday and i don't feel anything. i wasn't exited, i didn't care about the presents, i gave the cake to someone else and i locked myself in my room the whole day. i'm just so disappointed. i promised myself i'd be dead by now.

I initially had a timeline that I was going to exit before I hit age 28. I had been struggling with suicide since before I even started kindergarten, and that was before any of the really violent domestic incidents happened. I chose 28 because I heard someone say that Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin both died at that age. I was not in to the Doors, but Janis Joplin very much. The number became imprinted on me as the age after which you cannot be a rock star. However, by the time I hit 28, I had met the love of my life and I didn't want to do that to him. So I set my next deadline a little further out but I kept going past them and setting new ones. The most recent future date is coming up soon, too.

My point in relating this is that it's never certain where life will take us, and even if you are past your "deadline," so to speak, things could still turn around. I kind of screwed myself over because in my early 20s I was not focused on building a career, financial savings, or anything future oriented - why bother if i'm not going to be there for it? I wish I could go back in time and have a serious talk with myself, but I'd probably have to slap the shit out of young me to get him to listen. Your path might be similar, or more likely, it will be completely different. At the same time, I hope that you will keep in mind that things don't ever go as planned. This doesn't mean to not make plans, but rather that once they are made, to let go of where they might lead.

Okay I will take grandpa home now...

 

[BlackSheep 007]

Acutally like this:
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[Something.idk]

Trying very hard not to kill myself. I really want to end it all right now. I wouldn't mind having a jet engine fall on me right now (Donnie Darko reference)