Weekly Prompt #37: What challenges are you facing that you need help with?
Hello all, I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week.
Last week we discussed: How does your cultural background or upbringing influence your experience with depression? Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts and questions for discussion. They were thought-provoking questions and thoughts. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you
This week's prompt: What challenges are you facing that you need help with?
Let's get started to share our challenges and support each other.
@ASilentObserver
Right now, probably just confusion. I don't really know what's going on, but I'm trying my best. Doing more of the stuff I like and actually enjoying myself. In the midst of it, I don't really understand what's going on around me. What people are planning for me and want from me. Like they're waiting for me to do something I'm not quite sure of. It's not a scary feeling just a genuine confusion. At the moment, I'm just trying to build and create good memories.
When I think back to my childhood, 90 percent of it is pain and suffering. That's all I remember, and that's all I focused on. I don't want to look back again and feel nothing but hate and fear. I want to have good memories to remember and enjoy. So, that's what I'm doing. Still, there's a little voice telling me when the other shoe drops things are going to get a lot worse from here on out.
@JollyRacher Hi jolly, it feels like you have been through a lot in your childhood which has left you with a lot of pain and fear. You are trying to move forward by focusing on positive experiences and emotions, but the uncertainty about others' expectations is causing confusion. How does it feel when the "other shoe" might drop?
@ASilentObserver
Destructive, very destructive. Like I'm going insane and there's nothing I can do about it. That I have to simply smile and play along and if I don't I will ruin everything that came before it. Any chance of returning to normal will be gone. Which is why I prefer not to give it as much thought as I usually do. At least not for now.
