Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

[StanD]

I was thinking about what you might title your new thread @Former-Member & digging deep. It helped me to see a path way. Have a lovely night.

[Former-Member]

Hello @tyme 

I am starting to learn a little about this huge airport I think of it as

I eventually worked out how @ works

I read something somewhere but do not remember how I got there or where it is

I forgot about the support button so am checking my footprints and found your response the first time and pushed the button

I think that you are interesting from all of the replies that you leave others

I noticed Peer Support Worker which means that you work for Sane

I am pleased about that

If I do start another post somewhere I will invite you as well as @StanD and @EternalFlower who I think might be interested.

@chibamwas very thoughtful as well.

Bye

[Former-Member]

Hello @EternalFlower @StanD 

I liked the way you wrote about your thoughts on feelings of not belonging comparing that to a sea of many other boats yet none feel safe, EternalFlower.

I wrote that this place feels like an airport to me.

People come and go with their bags of feelings.

Then you told me that you feel safe writing here and that I am connecting to people.

StanD I need to find your words again and will write about them.

Sorry this is confusing.

[Former-Member]

Hello @StanD @EternalFlower 

StanD

One of your replies you responded to me with my words turned into questions.

I thought that was a very interesting approach and I love different ideas.

I read it several times and you helped me see myself through the eyes of another.

I thought that I sounded terrible and too busy writing about I like this and I don't like this.

Why would anyone find me interesting.

Then I started laughing because @chibam had advised me not to take things too seriously.

So all of you helped me lighten up.

StanD you also said that you found an answer to something troubling you which is a great achievement.

You also talked about seeing a path way.

I was thinking about what you might title your new thread @motion & digging deep. It helped me to see a path way. Have a lovely night.

I am thinking that we three  Eternal Flower and StanD are better at connecting than we think we are.

Eternal Flower you said that somewhere as well.

So I am going to be brave and start a new post and invite you.

Be brave for me and with me please.

I will invite Tyme and Chibam if they want to come they will won't they.

I think it might be better to move to stage 2 after introduce yourself here.

[Former-Member]

Welcome @LeChuck 

My computer told me that you supported my words on here.

I am not sure if you have found anywhere to write yet.

If you are at a loss some of us new people from here have started a new thread still under

Welcome and getting started section.

If you are interested I can tag you from there.

We are a friendly bunch.

Some have been around longer and know what they are doing thankfully.

Hope to hear back from you as I know how bewildering it is when first arriving .

Good luck with whatever you choose to do

Motion

[LeChuck]

@Former-Member would love a tag!

[Kath3]

Hello, I’m Kath and new to Sane. A normally bubbly person, I’ve experienced anxiety since childhood. Now 40 years old, I’ve just fractured my heel and my anxiety has sky rocketed. My ability to cope with demanding work expectations, parenting and my health (type 1 diabetes and chronic asthma) is really eating at me and I’m tearful, not sleeping and ruminating heaps. I know my heel injury will pass but I feel like  my world is caving in. Im trying to see my psychologist but she’s heavily booked. Any tips on good online mental health programs that help? Thanks Kath x

[hanami]

Hi there @Kath3 

Welcome to the forums, it's lovely to see you here.

It sounds understandable that an injury has triggered your anxiety. I always had anxiety as a child but then it kind of stayed away for years but reared its head when I was around your age. And thinking about it, around that time I remember fracturing my heel too during a game of netball. I knew it would get better but something about being laid up and in pain triggered my anxiety. I saw my GP and she gave me a link to an online program that was CBT based. I can't for the life of me remember what the program was called just that you had to be given access through your GP. I hope that others might have some ideas that could help you. 

There is also the option of speaking to someone at our drop-in counselling line (email, phone, or webchat). Here are the details https://www.sane.org/get-support/drop-in-service

Take care and keep reaching out,

Hanami

[Ihidaya]

@Eyad

Hey there I'm new too. I journey with ptsd along with a bunch of other labels perched under and over that including anxiety. It's obviously uncomfortable and I wish you well in your pursuit of wellness and ease.

I am touched to read of you not wanting to 'worry' those you love and your sense of duty to care for and protect them. I would like to offer that 'worry' is different from concern and involves hopelessness. The fact that you are here showing up looking for help inspires hope in me. 

My journey with ptsd has made me incredibly sensitive energetically (empathically) as I'm always on alert and scanning the environment for threats and this 'skill' or 'burden' depending on how you look at it has developed and heightened after being in this state for prolonged periods. My husband has had his own mental/emotional health journey going on and also tried to keep it from me (for slightly different reasons than you describe). I always felt something was 'off' with him and between us which exacerbated my ptsd and feelings of 'unsafety'. I felt great ease in all of my symptoms recently when we began to understand the root of this unease and he started to seek professional help and share with me what was happening for him.

Of course I don't want this to be the case and I have concern for him because I care for and love him and want the best for him, but I feel ease at his empowerment to seek help to affect positive change for himself. I also feel immense relief because the feeling of tension between makes sense now and I don't have to make up stories to explain behaviour to fill in the blanks of what I can't understand (never a helpful practice) but it is where we often find ourselves when we know something/someone isn't what it/they says it is/are.

Please only take what resonates of my experience as it is mine, not yours and offered in the spirit of unity. 

[FloatingFeather]

Hi @Kath3,

Welcome to the Forums. My name is FloatingFeather and I am one of the peer support workers at SANE. It is lovely to have you with us.

It sounds like you have quite a bit going on right now and are probably feeling a bit overwhelmed (which is very understandable). Sometimes I think life just feels like it wont give us a break. I'm also typically a bubbly person but even the best of us have a breaking point. I have also had anxiety in the past so I can relate to how you are feeling. In my experience the lack of sleep seems to fed the anxiety a bit. I know it's a lot easier said than done but if you can get some good solid sleep you may find it helps a little.

I think reaching out to places like SANE where you can meet other people with lived experience that really understand what you may be going through is very beneficial. I find therapists are great but I really resonate with people who have walked the same path as I have and can say, I get it, I've lived it and it will be okay. 

Keep reaching out whenever you need to - we are here 24/7.

Warm wishes, 

FloatingFeather