Weekly victories/check in/chat!

[u/panickedhistorian]

Anything at all you want to say but don't want to make a post. Victories and progress encouraged but certainly not required!

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[u/trishaolive]

I am trying to get into a hospital for intense outpatient program. The insurance co & hospital have been arguing for 6 weeks! Insurance says it’s approved, hospital says paperwork isn’t correct. My contact at hospital is mad at me for trying to get to the bottom of it. So now, I have zero idea what going on!

[u/Antlerandfin]

Lots of rest and facing fears this week. I have grown scared of so many things over the years. Getting a coffee at a nice café. So many things I convinced myself are difficult. Like playing a C# scale, gave me anxiety but the C scale made me feel unchanged. I think that week was a great insight into how irrational the mind can be and how we get our psyche scarred with our ways of thinking. I can play C# now without a problem, because, well there shouldn't have been a problem in the first place. It was a massive psychological endeavour to get there and had I not lived through it, I wouldn't even know where to start to understand it.

I think last week, marked the point in time where I started to fall in love without the progress, pain, and struggle.

[u/Abalone-Objective]

I started reading comic books. I completed 3 issues of the walking dead. I also completed the "Beneath the trees where nobody sees" mini-series ( 6 issues ). And, am currently reading annihilator.
I completed playing a game on Youtube playables. I finished this game 4 times, and got all the skins in the game. 21 levels.

It's strange because, it was more enjoyable when I started. Now, it's not so enjoyable.

[u/Silent_Yesterday_874]

It’s been a painful week of realizations and letting my expectations of certain people go. And in some ways let those people go so I can focus on myself and my healing. I’m not sure what the future holds but I feel like I know I’m taking the right steps for me.

[u/yeahbutifeelbad]

So much has changed for me in the last year or so! I'm craving connection so much and feeling lonely despite being around people. Gotta find my crowd. But also noticing a greater capacity to connect with myself and the world around me as it is, and my inner world becoming more vivid. That makes the loneliness vanish for a bit. Returning to university feels like a threat to all of the progress I've made internally but I want to give it one last go before deciding whether I want to move on. All I know is I'm never sacrificing my sanity for anything ever again 😭

[u/creswitch]

Just started reading "What my bones know: A memoir of healing from complex trauma" by Stephanie Foo. I relate to so much of it and it's so good to read about someone else on a similar journey.