♡ Newbie Hub – Check-In ♡

@theriverissinging I'm doing alright. New here. Not really sure what I'm looking for yet. There's a lot of things I'm just trying to take a step forward.

@theriverissinging

Thank you! I'm glad I found this place. The right thing at the right time of my life. I hope to use this platform to help myself and find ways to share the help with others as well if possible.

Hello brave people!

Newbie here.

I have fear of the future…

Repeating mistakes of the past

Starting yet another job, I’ve had a ton!

Never attaining stability and the list goes on

I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar 2, I didn’t fully understand it or accept it. I hid it from others but mostly myself. I see it, I have the cycles and patterns - for 40 years now. I lost another great job last week, I am so disappointed in myself. I thought it would be different this time but there I am, every place I go - there I am!

I work hard, then feel sick, then feel sad for being sick and calling in… the negative thoughts about who I am loop 24/7! I am open to help coping, warning signs and support. Thank you! ❤️‍🩹

@theriverissinging Hi, I am excited to begin this journey here. I joined 7cups two days ago.

I look forward to learning more about myself and being a better human who shares kindness with everyone. :)

I welcome any advice here.

@theriverissinging 1. Today it kind of feels like it's not my day. I feel so tired after the basketball practice and that heatwave is horrible. I don't know if I'll find the strength to fix this day later but I really hope so.

2-3. I don't know if I'm an oldie or a newbie. I joined 7cups around 3-4 months ago so I'm gonna answer both

- What I'm basically looking on 7cups is people to support me and show me that I actually do deserve their attention and I'm also searching for kind people to interact with. For example in forums like this one.

- Hmm what I would say to the newbies is to not give up on finding support on 7cups because it's really such an amazing and warm place. It might be hard o realize it in the beginning because this is how I felt at first. I didn't really think of 7cups as a place that I belonged in or I was specifically welcomed at, but now I understand that it's so important that I have a place in my mind THAT whenever I feel like I need to talk to someone I can reach to. So 7cups means a lot and it helps so much with your well-being.

Hi, Great questions

I am having mostly a bad time

hoping to find empathic support and healthy positivity

from a trauma and recovery point of view

its about how well you connect too though

@theriverissinging

I suffer from disabling anxiety and due to that can't work or go to university right now. My dream job is to be a clinical psychologist, so not only am I hoping to get support, but to further my own skills (and maybe get some recommendations for my eventual university application because I'll need all the help I can get)

@theriverissinging hello i am doing alright. i am hoping i can find some people who understand what i am going through and possible outreach to therapists that are not that expensive

@theriverissinging

Hello, thank you for the kind welcome!

I just had the pleasure of chatting with a wonderful listener who let me rant and helped me with processing a situation that was troubling me. So I would say I am feeling better 😊

As for what I hope to achieve here, I would love to just mingle around people open to discussing mental health topics, hopefully I will be able to take something for me from those discussions and contribute and give something to others as well. I am usually the listener so it's refreshing to change up my position, and kind of exciting to think I might be able to contribute and offer my listening skills to others in the foreseeable future.

I am not doing too well. I have BPD and I have had many episodes today over the smallest things. It makes me just want to leave my relationship, because the whole thing is so triggering for me, even though my partner isn't doing anything wrong. I lack emotional permanence, though, so when we are together in person, it's always amazing.

I am just looking for other people with BPD who get me, so that I can feel so much less alone. I only know one other person with BPD and she's always with her fiancé and can barely talk to me.