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Meh

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« Reply #1845 on: July 25, 2020, 01:19:49 AM »
Also "Achievement ideology" could connect with that article.

I forgot I posted that, was going to come here and say I'm burnt out from how much I'm required to read. I guess I should go back to it. It will fill good when it's complete. Sigh.

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« Reply #1846 on: July 25, 2020, 07:49:01 AM »
HUH. That was an actually useful and informative summary to read G. (I'm seeing way too much "fluff" these days.)

And I think that study has legs. Those kinds of beliefs are what I believe (HA!) were the underlying building blocks of what was my subconscious anxiety/depression that I broke through in CBT therapy. So, the times I mentioned talking back to the tapes in my head - I was challenging my own beliefs. Allowing myself to push past conditioning, societal pressure, and my overwhelming concern about being a "good" person - or being a victim and always in a conflict with the rest of the world.

The reminder right now is TIMELY. I've also shared with Hol.

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« Reply #1847 on: August 02, 2020, 10:11:27 PM »
Yeah I think there are real roots to anxiety and depression. Lots of approaches seem to medicate the symptoms.


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« Reply #1848 on: November 06, 2020, 12:44:46 AM »
Current events in the news NXIVM cult.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/us/nxivm-keith-raniere-sentencing-supporters/index.html

and youtube videos, interviews, docuseries, books etc. So much money is made from the fallout of cults.

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« Reply #1849 on: November 07, 2020, 06:12:59 AM »
Current events in the news NXIVM cult.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/us/nxivm-keith-raniere-sentencing-supporters/index.html

and youtube videos, interviews, docuseries, books etc. So much money is made from the fallout of cults.

I hadn't heard of him before, Posh, what an awful man.  I think there's a really fine line between care and control.  People can start off feeling like someone care's about them and then as the control begins they don't even realise it's happening.  So frightening and so hard to protect people from, I think.  We all want to feel like someone cares.  Some people are so exploitative.  Awful man.  I hope you are doing okay xx

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« Reply #1850 on: December 18, 2020, 01:39:48 AM »
I want to watch The Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix. Or really watch any movie and chill out.

I've got ingredients for macaroons in my closet, ingredients for macadamia cookies, who knows what else.

Also maybe check out some Christmas lights in the neighborhood eventually.
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« Reply #1851 on: December 18, 2020, 03:07:35 AM »
I got some of those cheezy tiny lights on strings for my patio.
Had trouble getting them to turn on but then the little solar array started to work.
Came home and they were still in a tangled pile on the patio, glowing in the sleet.

Cool. Need to find a simple way to attach them to my fence.

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« Reply #1852 on: December 18, 2020, 04:52:20 AM »
P, I personally thought The Joker to be the best film I've seen in a very long time; I hope you enjoy it.  The cookies sound nice as well, as do Christmas lights!  I love Christmas lights.  Hopsie yours sound like anti Christmas lights lol, I hope you got them up on the fence so they look pretty!  I like the ones where someone's done a massive display outside and the neighbours just have a sign up that says 'Ditto'  Lol xx

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« Reply #1853 on: December 18, 2020, 07:48:52 PM »
Hiya Hops and Two,

Yeah, I like lights even if they are in a jumble. It is very dark and gray here. I want to paint but it's not going to happen at the moment. I still just have too much work to do.

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« Reply #1854 on: December 20, 2020, 09:01:53 PM »
On a different note, I find it creepy that if there was no family relation, the narcissist in our lives would qualify as stalkers.

- They don't care if they are making other's uncomfortable, they don't even care what other people want or feel.

- Relationships are one sided and selfish.

- Are controlling

- Following video even mentions Narcissists specifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okqIU_W54Ps

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« Reply #1855 on: December 21, 2020, 03:34:48 AM »
On a different note, I find it creepy that if there was no family relation, the narcissist in our lives would qualify as stalkers.

- They don't care if they are making other's uncomfortable, they don't even care what other people want or feel.

- Relationships are one sided and selfish.

- Are controlling

- Following video even mentions Narcissists specifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okqIU_W54Ps

Eek, yes, Posh, that's very true.  I've often said that if I'd had a relationship with a partner like the one I had with my mum everyone would have told me to leave.  Yet when I stopped talking to my wrong many thought I was wrong to do so.  It's an odd situation, for sure! xx

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« Reply #1856 on: December 21, 2020, 07:23:46 AM »
Yep

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« Reply #1857 on: March 10, 2021, 09:49:26 PM »
Today my mother launched into yelling at me, afterwards she followed it up with her batshit advice. I've told her she doesn't have to raise her voice and I can hear her just fine and then she continues to yell at me. She doesn't even see herself as dysfunctional. There is something so messed up with her after all these years and same crap. She is old. My parents time on the planet really is limited in life-years because when people age well existence becomes finite. I think about how at some point they will become more or less invalid and I have no idea what their plan is for that, I guess it's not my problem so I shouldn't even think about it at all. It's abnormal to think any of these things or maybe I should say dysfunctional, dysfunction begets more dysfunction and so forth. I'm just going to remember her as someone who didn't give a poop about me. I've repeated this kind of sentiment here sort of over and over not because I believe anything about it is going to change. I just need to vent or something, as a human being she plain sucks. Her mind reminds me of a commercial, it's on repeat, it's fake, it's short but it's too long.

So then one just turns to oneself and asks things like am I taking care of myself? The answer is kinda sorta but when is anything ever perfect. I'm really low energy right now in general I feel depressed meaning I feel that lead weight feeling. The sensation that not enough ever gets done in one day. 

The advice is the worst part of it. Maybe I won't be sad when she passes away, maybe it will just amount to some stupid inconvenience. She put me apparently as the executor of her will with one of her husband's kids. I haven't even looked at it. It seems like work. Unwanted work. Maybe they will be in a nursing home in 5-10 years. It's like they are just waiting to die, they barely do anything but watch television. I'd like to have an actual conversations with my relatives but I don't.
 

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« Reply #1858 on: March 11, 2021, 05:54:49 AM »
Hey Posh, I understand the gray emptiness of having a Nparent age and decline and realizing you've already done most of your grieving. Because when you don't get kind, caring parenting...life kind of pushes you into working through that buried sadness as an adult long before their time is done. I was at it through my 50s.

I'm sorry. You deserve love, even if you have to find out how to give it to yourself. Maybe if you try talking to yourself the way a kind, patient, gentle mother would...using that voice intentionally until you get used to it. It might help.

Being an executor is tedious, just filing a bunch of forms and tidying up everything. But remember that most wills allow executors to get PAID from an estate for their time. I'm sure it's all explained on Google. I hope your parents' will allows it.

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« Reply #1859 on: March 25, 2021, 01:46:18 AM »
I know posting news is sorta bad and maybe this board should not have a lot of news or politics. Whatever side someone is on of any issue, it sure feels like issues are growing issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiT0ZjCBPOg