Yes...I have to keep my mind occupied so I don't think about how bad things are. I crochet, when I can because it is so much counting I don't have time for any other thoughts to creep in. But I have somehow injured my right shoulder...cortisone shot a week ago and it still hurts like hell, so MRI Saturday. So, I have been on here a lot trying not to think about all the stuff that causes anxiety and trying to stay away from people who cause it.

I get so overwhelmed with reality that I can't function. I just let everything go and I hide in my bedroom :(

I hate reality. It's like paperwork. I hate paperwork too, and it's So Easy to do - if I'd just DO it.

Life looks so easy too, when I'm watching other people do it. Why don't I just do what they do? Um....

yeah. I hear ya.

Definitely. I get so overwhelmed by the troubles of our time and feel things so acutely it positively pains me.

Comedy videos, coloring inside the lines of a coloring book, latin music, they help. I have a loving man who is hysterically funny, and that saves me a lot. My friends' humor, too.

Seek out ways to belly laugh. George Carlin saw all this #$%^ too, and he just made jokes out of it. And his life was a gift to everyone who had a laugh on him, global warming or not.

Saw this subject and just had to ask...who knows what reality is? Science is telling us lately that everything we thought was real, isn't. The eastern religions say that there is no reality only "maya" or the illusion of reality.
For myself, I would much rather think that reality is NOT here and now....our dreams being a bit closer.
Ultimately, I believe we all create our own reality. So what's real to one is not for the other.
Sorry, crawling back into my unreal turtle shell :-)

When I think about 'maya' I think about perception of stuff that goes on, but not actual matter. I try to understand how I might have influenced someone else but I balance that with what they might or might not know, their intellect, their own perceptions, etcetera.

We live in the physical universe, so if I crash into another car, I crash into another car.

I don'[t know what to say about reality. It is such a mix of good and bad.

Life in general overwhelms me , maybe that is why I feel so unreal most of the time, Like it is not really happening. I can't seem to handle reality for to long.