yea , I agree...I've been coming here excessively.... I check in for new threads continually through out the day...cause I read every one of them, then get bored and leave. then check for new....
but hell what else do I have to do???
but I've been thinking about a little break as well

I agree with you Penn, always remember that you are NUMBER 1.... You have to take care of yourself first and foremost. I was reading some of the posts and couldn't even respond to them but I thought maybe there was a full moon. nope, not until next week. Please do what is best for you but I'm glad you said something so I don't put you on my MIA list. Hugs GB

I start my new job on Monday, which will be so good for me. It also means I won't be here so much either. It's only very occasionally that I get bat-shit crazy on here, but we all do it!

thank you, freakchick, gramybear, and juice.

i'm just tying up loose ends on this site, and then i gotta get off---at 4 in the morning!

yes, Freakchick, hell what else do I--ME--have to do!

thanks GB, for hugs.

and yes, Juice, i've gone bat-shit crazy, though it's good to know i'm not alone in that;)

MY APOLOGIES TO ALL.

I've had to 'take a break' from time to time too, from DS. I love reading the posts from people who are long time posters. It gives me strength to see people get stronger and do better from some of the suggestions here.

Be Well

Do what you feel is necessary for you, Penn. I'm not on here that much myself, but when I do drop in, I try to find those who aren't receiving many responses to their posts to support, and of course, I do try to give support to those "oldies" that I've been on here with, all with as much time and energy as I can muster up.

I think this is a very good site; a very good supportive site. Sometimes, things (people) go awry; just as in the "real world". We all are having our issues and struggles. So we state our "2 cents" and move onward in those cases that go awry. Or just avoid the thread. At least, that's my philosophy that I want to go by.

But, please do check in from time to time. And as often as you are up to it.

I will miss you, if you go away permanently.

(((Hugs)))

The site can be very intimidating to new newcomers that's before dealing with the people on it. But is one of the best ones out there. Try not to let a few bad apples ruin the experience of some great surport here.

bat-shit crazy! AND HOW!!
This is what I do too. Sometimes the board gets too depressing and I just can't handle it any more. I am here for a few weeks months, then gone for the same amount. It's good to take breaks and go AFK. Next weekend my son has a camping trip that I am going on with him and I will be disconnecting my phones from the wireless connection so I can only use them as cameras. Even going off the damn grid from time to time is nice too. :) I did it a few years back for about 2 weeks and scared the shit out of a lot of people because they couldn't find me. I even disconnected the GPS in my car so no one could locate me.

DS is certainly addictive. I agree.

I'm new to this and I don't believe most of what I read. In my life I have be screwed over so many times by family. It's not to hard to pick out people that you don't know and figure out that they are feeding you a line of bull pucky. I have be abused a lot in my life and learned not to trust people very much and it's getting easier to pick out the liars. Be careful who you listen to, if it doesn't make very much sense, don't believe it. Good Luck. Oldcowboy

Im with the cowboy :-).....couldnt have stated in any better than this

I do that.

All the time.

I'm about to go eat lunch.

That exact post could have come out of my brain.
well said Oldcowboy!

Gosh, I hate that some here have had bad experiences with important people in their lives; wish it didn't happen, but that's just the way it is. I don't think anyone here can say they haven't had a bad experience with family or friends or co-workers or just people in general, be it some one they run upon in the main stream of society or have business dealings with, because there are some among us in society who are really are toxic; their whole train of thought is toxic based upon past events and dump the whole of society in the sewer because of these bad experiences. And they are mean, just mean in wanting to put this poison mentality in others. Now I am not accusing anyone here of this; this is what I have discovered dealing with people. Just putting plain, folks, you know that. But, to imply that the responses made here mostly come from people who "lie", folks, are we just wasting our time on here trying to support you, spending our energy and our time when we could be doing something that would be more effective than trying to "build you up"? I just don't get where some of this mentality comes from.

Granted there are some who "pull punches", but not all. And there are many, many good hearted gentle people on here who genuinely feel compassion for those who are suffering because they suffer themselves. I for one am one.

I just don't get this mentality.

Based upon this revelation in this post (not you including you Penn) maybe those of us who try to support and encourage would be better off to invest our time and what energy we can muster elsewhere.

I hate that some feel this way. But, for all of you who "peek in", this is not the case for every member on this site. I get support here; I give support here. Genuine support as best I can, and suggest ways to help resolve situations, if I can. And, I am not alone. You know that, you peek in and read the posts.

Maybe I need to take a break from here.

There seems to be an epidemic of toxic thoughts here.

I don't see the point in discouraging another person from hearing and receiving positive suggestions just because of one's bad experiences. We've all had bad experiences, and most of us don't practice that behavior by passing these defeating thoughts onto others.

Do figure out how to use the sight to your benefit and think of it as being in a large room of people you've not met in person (except of course those friends you may have here who you have met or are personal friends) You wouldn't open up certain parts of yourself to acquaintances whom you did not know how they would react... in some cases you may but are sure of yourself in those instances. The problem on line is that a person can switch genders, ages and complete lives by using different names, that added to being in that large room of unknowns shows you how to treat it.

You'll get used to it, should you think it is beneficial, and learn to calm your trigger areas in time. The object is to get to where you don't feel the NEED to respond in rabid kind to a person over and over. Make your point within one response if possible which will require you put it exactly as you would stand by no matter the opposition and realize you're human and everyone else is too.

You can be of great help to others with your life experience and vise versa.