You're feeling overwhelmed?

The hour here is late, so perhaps i've come upon this when you have already had someone in your immediate world to listen and give you some comfort.

I remember many times when I was younger just desperate for a single person to tell me to hang on when times were at their worst I'd known. So, guessing that may be where you are, and thinking i remember that you have had difficulties getting sleep and haaving anxiety as a result, let me enourage you to call your area's emergency of mental hygiene/help telephone line so you don't have the wait of people who may not be available to see your need on their own.

Until you can do that, let me remind you as I know in seeing some of your posts that many other people receive your knindness through those posts learning who you are and how caring, and they care about you even for some as relative strangers. If strangers can see your goodness and care about you, how blessed are people who have more time and experience and the gift of you in their daily lives? In all relationships there are times when things don't go so well, and being able to reach out for advice, or take a break to be able to think more clearly with that person (IF that is safe physically and emotionally) can help sometimes, or getting a supported break to think things out or do some calming activities can be a great reason to call a therapist or friend or trusted person, or help line.

Do you journal to calm yourself? That may be something you can do to help yourself until you can also connect with someone else.

Do you listen to music, or draw, sing, write, color, to calm yourself?

Do you do and patterned breathing exercises that help you feel more calm?

Do you need to leave to be in a safer situation? If so, you may need to call a help line at this point if you need help leaving.

You are important. Let us know that you are getting what you need to be all right.

Hugs and love to you, Queen!

Ouilliam, thank you for your kind words and wise perception, I appreciate you too.

Thank you Hasty, God knows I needed to know I'm loved too.

I'm very thankful for everything at this time, thank you.

Holler if I can listen. I’m struggling and feeling alone myself.

Some days hit us all hard. And for me, a lonely spot can be a very anxious one and vice versa. Most of us I think carry some form of ourselves as a child inside of us, and those little ones are easily hurt and frightened. When I've been most alone and lonely, it's been of help time to time to think of myself as a wee little fellow who was afraid of the dark, and afraid getting lost, and witches and snakes and spiders, and a lot of other things little people are afraid of. My parents did what they could with those fears, and let me control my own night light or rocked me back to sleep if I woke up scared by dreams, and so on. There's nothing to be ashamed of, adult as you are, having a bit of a talk with the part of you that's scared and doing something to comfort that little person inside you, because even when it doesn't feel completely like it, you are much more able to protect your little person, and figure out how to comfort and reassure that piece of yourself than you were just years ago. You can do this! Rock that little person or sing to them or tell them just how special they really are. Beside comforting yourself, this takes you to a time down the path a bit where you may be comforting your own little child or someone else special to you. So this tough time is all to the good down the road. As wished by others thinking of your hard time now, hugs to you from me as well.

What would you tell them?

I would speak truth to them, the honest truth of how I feel about whatever prompted me to reach out to them in the first place.

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