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Personal definition of "normal"

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Meh:
Right, Lighter!

Anger is definitely informative, it tells me something for sure. It does help I guess to see the positive side of anger. To think about it in terms of constructive action maybe.

Right anger is energy I guess. I see what you mean I think. I'm rather angry and inactive which makes everything feel worse too.

I will try to look at my anger as useful rather than an inconvenience. With anger/anxiety/fatigue/depression, my mind starts to feel like mashed potatoes. Maybe I need faith that my mind might feel like mashed potato pie but small parts of it can still function and perhaps get me out of the funk.

Thank you.

lighter:
I think worry is the least helpful thing.  Anger can be very useful, but worry....it taxes us, breaks us down, weakens our ability to respond, ime.

Learning to put whatever stories we tell ourselves on the shelf....
Learning to DO what we can, then stop thinking about it....is a different coping strategy than worry, worry, worry, without end or strategy.

I think many people learned to worry worry worry to cope.  It's exhausting and robs joy from a life, ime.

Lighter

lighter:
THIS thread, for me, speaks to operating outside fight or flight in a more "normal" zone.  If you're/we're functioning in fight or flight survival mode, sensing the upside down of it, reacting/reactivity all the time, unable to understand it..... identify the moving pieces and understand what's hijacked your biochemistry in order to find ways to take it back....asking doctors, with little or no ability to SEE past the symptoms for help.....being told it's in our heads...
Hmmmm.....
I guess those old fuckers might be right and yet..... they're so very wrong too, bc it's in our bodies too and they should be interested in identifying and treating causes, not identifying fight or flight trauma response as a "craziness" they have no responsibility or obligation to identify and certainly not treat.

All
In
Her
Head

Almost has a ring if truth to it, but not really.

If MDs have no responsibility to identify or treat a biochemical hijacking....and the worse thing they do is drug people up while telling them the problems are all in their head.....dismissing them.....bc the doc doesn't understand or typically care to understand, thus dismissing "alternative" treatments which possibly could lead to reinstated Harmony and balance of the whole patient.

And specializing doesn't help, though I understand the benefits, but all MDs shouldn't feel competent to dx the whole patient with such limited understanding and ability to discover causes of imbalances, ime.

"Normal" feels like having consistent access to our entire brain, ime.  As I live in this amazing place and recognize it.....I realize it's true.  I wonder why in the world it's so common yet so difficult to understand, dx and treat....mind AND body.....maybe soul too. 

Eh.... it's greed and the patriarchy.  Never mind.

I'm still typing with one finger so....not editing that.

Lighter

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