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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Thread Deletion
« Last post by Twoapenny on Today at 06:55:52 AM »
I've just come back on to say I've deleted the previous thread.  I'm sorry to say I found the way in which a lengthy post I'd made was largely ignored apart from one throwaway remark at the end referring to rethinking our situation which led to two, unfortunately, quite patronising posts about getting lifts from people.

I am so tired of not being heard, and it's worse when it happens here, because this is supposed to be about Voicelessness.  I know that intentions were good, but would it really be so hard to stop and think for just a minute before posting.  I have explained my situation with my son over and over again.  I've explained repeatedly about the constant refusals for support for my son.  The notion that our situation would be perfectly workable if he could get a lift somewhere every now and again is a real insult to the complexities of his disability, to our situation as a whole and to my level of intelligence.  On what planet would I have sat here for the last three years and at no point thought to find out what's on offer locally?  I am so tired of the constant attitude I get everywhere.  My son's disabled, therefore I am too stupid to look up basic things and do some basic problem solving.  I am also tired of people assuming I make the decisions.  My son is miserable, there isn't enough to do, he hasn't met anyone he particularly wants to spend time with and he doesn't enjoy all the time we spend in the car, or seeing me struggling to drive when my back's bad or my hip's gone again.  He is a human with the same needs, wants and desires as any other man his age, in exactly the same way that I am only 52, yet for the last twenty years I've been forced to live like a nun with no social life, no paid employment, no relationships and no money for anything other than essential spends and the very occasional treat.  Why everyone I encounter thinks this is perfectly fine has always been a complete mystery to me.

I am very grateful for all the board has given me over the years but I won't be posting anymore.  It's simply too exhausting to have to keep dealing with these situations, where my response can only be either a rant, ignoring the comments or having to write yet another lengthy explanation about a situation that I didn't raise in the first place.

I'd suggest to anyone who wants a taste of my life to commit to a year with no contact with anyone you know.  Place yourself in complete isolation.  Get up at 5am every day and spend your entire day either driving, sitting in your car, or at home alone.  Pay yourself half of whatever your area's minimum wage is and live on that.  Nothing else.  Then remind yourself I've done this for 23 years now, and come back and tell me that not once in that 12 month period did you think to go online and see if there was any sort of viable alternative.
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Meh, it's the age old story of greed, the bravery of little guy "do-gooders," betrayal and redemption, this time focused on big pharma and a blue healing mushroom from Peru.

It's a roller coaster of emotions, hope, wonder, confusion, and outrage at the depth of selfish greed, to the detriment of humanity.

Lighter



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Nope, never seen it but recall someone talking about it long time ago.

What do you like about it?
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Is anyone else watching this series? 

It's been green lit for a second season, and I'm very glad.

Lighter
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Oh, Tupp.....half of me wants more electric shocks and pain, as proof the needles are exacting the best possible healing benefits.

My other half digs fingernails into armrests, and dreads the pain.....really frightened of the shocks.

After the needles are in, I feel pretty brave and conflicted.  I rarely go to my happy tomato garden.... usually bc Sam Sam the needle man is taking pulses in both wrists and asking questions, giving information, expressing concerns, etc.

It's raining, finally, but very gently.  A little here.  A little there.  The moss was desperate for it.

There's no smoke in the wind, now that I think of it.....no scent or sight of it.

I hope you have moments of joy, peace, and rest today. 

Lighter



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I love the foot needles, Lighter, about the only thing that brings the energy down from my head really quickly.  Love that feeling, although have to steel myself for it as I can't bear people touching my feet!  It's a real 'brace yourself' moment x
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Nothing much really
« Last post by Meh on March 29, 2025, 02:29:42 AM »

Yes, I've heard of Valley of the Dolls though I haven't watched it.

I like seeing all the old advertisements just wish the small text was more clear/less fuzzy.

https://mindfreedom.org/kb/view-d171/

"Burroughs Wellcome (sold meth) eventually merged with Glaxo to form GlaxoWellcome, which then merged with SmithKline Beecham to become GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). So, in a sense, Burroughs Wellcome's legacy is part of the modern pharmaceutical giant GSK"
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Well, 2 hours of focused focusing in the acupuncture chair.

I'm figuring out how big picture thinking, for me, gets derailed by the details....pulling me off track....into meandering and worry, bc I can't solve them allin the moment.

That's ok.  I'm interested in turning that around, but realized......the focus on what's important feeeeeels grown uppy in a very foreign way......in an unconscious belief , I don't deserve that, way.

But it's exciting too....sends my stomach flipping, in a good way.

I'm jumping around ...multi tasking....hitting the high spots.

Acupuncture was focused on more giving me energy....but calmer energy.  One needle in left foot, the last needle, felt like I was being electrocuted. Most of the needles were in ears, behind ears, R hand and both feet.  At one point in meditation, a big pain hit me behind R eye.....was thinking about how praying, working with wounded/protective parts and meditation feel the same way.......like a 3d stereogram coming into focus.....but, between my eyes, inside my skull. 

This focus.....dropping into the zone......came and went for 2 hours.  I noticed the music, many times, noticed weird noises when needles went into a client...think lamaze, but men giving birth.  The guy slept like a baby and snored softly, soon after.

Noticed the smell of smoke...... there's a haze everywhere in town.....that smell is in the house now.....forest fires.

Sometimes, I got back to the zone through the tomato garden.  Sometimes, through breathing......"I'm home, I've arrived", sometimes through observation mode and problem solving.....very satisfying, but always back to the zone.....so joyful.

And I saw why daily mindfulness practice is necessary....bc it trains the mind to return to the zone, again and again, and maybe be there more often than not.  What if it leads to never or rarely leaving the zone? Worth the time! Yup yup yup.

And it wasn't like I intended to SEE the value in mindfulness meditation today.  It just appeared toward the end.....feels like it should have made sense before.....I simply couldn't get it into focus and keep it long enough......I guess.

I smelled a hair salon and children's pretend perfume.....and noticed mostly blissful peace.....a little discomfort when I lost focus..... but it came back.  I got it back. Over and over.

I think it's not what I thought it was.....yet it is.

And mostly it's been me, walking myself through my own T session, intuitively, to see where it goes.

I've stopped wondering how T would handle this or that......what tool she'd reach for or not.

In the end, I decided the same thing about food.  I'm not following Whole 30.  DD22 can, but she's making inclined to eat intuitively also.  We talked about it over dinner tonight and I will say this.....the doc gave her herbs for improved appetite and digestion...... they're working!  So quick!

Will likely write more as I remember them.... what's feeling real is

Lighter










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You sound really overall good, Lighter.
You trip over Yet but most of the time you're in Now.

Bravo to you for it; your work has been deep and borne fruit.

I thought of your Keystone Cops move w/the garbage, plus the salmon fiesta and what popped up was Emergency Mode. You have had so many situations, from YG on back, which seemed to come across as dire (or in one of your recent meditations even horrifying) -- who wouldn't hear sirens in the psyche? It's as though fear has been a friend (in the good way of Gavin DeBecker) but then it moved into the guest room and eats all your food sometimes.

But you spot it every time, you know what to do, and that's a huge accomplishment.

Glad DD24's moving forward in her life. Personally, I'd move several states to escape potentially hyper-religious future in-laws, but that's my bias. Good luck to her and to them! It's an exciting chapter for her and sounds like she has good plans.

hugs
Hops
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Hops:  DD22 saw the functional med doc yesterday.  He found her lower R lung wasn't moving properly, with the visceral manipulation.  She's had pneumonia recently, so that made sense to him.

 I'm pretty sure you're right about the anxiety and breathing, for my part..... something locked down in there.  It's happened before, back in 2006.  Very real, very helpless, but this time I have appetite and ability that digest, lol.  Different, but similar.  Not noticing my breath now, so better, thank goodness.  I've given myself a week off from T to just sit....feels very necessary.

Tupp:  DD22 and I will go to lake this weekend and I've grilled off a platter of veg ahead.  Yesterday morning was a comedy of errors, involving the grill, huge salmon filet and, again, grilled veg.  I notice a frantic energy popping up lately.....and question it, bc it's creating chaos.

Did I tell you I ran to get garbage out, slid in socked feet, on the cement garage floor (picture someone, in a movie, sliding under an almost closing gate, then popping up and continuing on, like nothing happened.)  That was as me.  The garbage man was very amused....

::picturing mysel, wide eyed, moving very fast, disappearing, popping back up to weave through cars with guge garbage can  to the street where I waited a good 30 seconds for truck to align::.

I didn't hurt myself, but geez.....I sure could have.

The garbage would have waited AND I wasn't even late, and it's not the end of the wirld to miss a week and....
had I just walked swiftly, and met him at the curb,
sans
the
frantic escape from zombies at the lowering gate movie scene, it would have been fine. That is a very nutty little pebble!!!

Even if it's not ok.... it's ok.  I know this to be true.

The same with the salmon,
in the air....
a flying circus filet, veg in every direction.....3 unnecessary messes, on top of usual food prep and clean up. Just.....
no.....
and why?

Without stopping, to take measure of these moments, I recognize my mother's Lucille Ball like behaviors and know...this is part generational, but also something else.  Many something elses, and I'm planning to meditate on it, at acupuncture, this afternoon......

I say I'll be more mindful, with myself and with self care, but then.... I'm erratic, and that's ok, bc I SEE it.  I'm aware.

Question is ..
  What will I do about it, if anything?  This ties back to auto politeness, as well, imo.  Auto reactivity....whatever it is.

I'm doing my best and trust myself in that.  Whew, already feels lighter.

I'll try to see it, with eyes unclouded by judgement.....trying to see the expanded view, with more choice and zero despair, kwim?

Yesterday , I talked to oldest DD24 about this calm, very integrated way of being, as she's grappling with big hairy life choices......leaving her apartment and roommate situation to live with her bf, for a year, before deciding to move to one of 3 States with Optometrist programs she's seeking. BF is happy and willing to go with her, but feels it's wise to really know what they're getting into...knowing each other better.  Seems wise to DD24 and to me.  Not sure what his Southern Baptist parents will think, but.....I digress, bc that's what monkey mind does.

Timing the move, having at least 1 big argument, coordinating roommates/leases or no roommates, dealing with her very sad current roommate, who's trying her to slow her educational roll, so as to extend the living situation.....
all the what ifs, rolling around.....
and all I could provide was....

"Listen to your intuition.... don't worry about it ...put it on the shelf till you're calm, with expanded choice and POV."  So very calming, keeping heads where the feet are. 

She nodded and SAW it......with me ...... no  frantic need to solve it before roommate returned from lunch, which she felt pressing in, minutes before. Just That, allowing time to pass joyfully, despite not knowing everything, despite some people being unhappy.
Is it a skill? 
A habit?
 Something to cultivate and lean back into, when worrying into future minutes, hours or days, pops up?

Pops up.....like an ambush? 

Like familiar territory one no longer wishes to occupy?

I'm not sure all the things and ways it is.   It seems very large, very important....with many moving parts.

It's my hope, it's simply another passing cloud, I notice.....
 as I remember....
 I'm the blue sky.
 The clouds come and go, like weather, but the sky is always blue sky, no matter.

The sky is blue.  The grass is green.  That stuff.  Again.

 When will that wire in....when will focus more easily remain on what I can do, and not on worry about what I can't do?

Seems simple to write and read, but to live in the spirit of it.....
with so many distractions and obligations...
is.....
not an art.....not just habit or wiring in, IME so far. 

It's just as my martial arts instructor said, 25 years ago....
it's the Dao...
the path to less suffering.

Distilled down, into it's simplest parts....
that.

It's cutting through the distractions, like a knife, with focus and more ease....maybe.

It's focus on what I want more of....yes?

It's providing the brain and Nervous System the opportunity to integrate and fire on all cylinders.....
with logic and access to creative problem solving! 

Too many parts, jumbled up together, is what it feels like.

Lighter

P S

I'm trying to auto remember take my own advice, bc......
sometimes my nose is on the pebbles and I didn't see it coming.  Maybe it just jumped up and stuck to my nose?  Did I float or fall down TO it?  Was it a thought or a fear or a reaction, wired in from infancy?

Don't know, but I'm curious 🧐

Clouds and sky....clouds and sky. 

Getting back to observer mode, nose off pebbles....expanded views and more choice.

There's been lots of laughter and noticing the fun stuff, btw.  Sometimes it feels like living in a sit com.....and everyone knows  it's a sitcom. Lots of singing and dancing in the kitchen. Comfort in the familiarity of eating prescriptively, again....even if familiar mourning's a part of it.

That was a rant😬
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