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My mother visited my grandmother today. The doctors have confirmed that it was a stroke, but they still don't know what's causing the complications.
I'm still in emotional shut-down, my mother's worried and stressed out, guess I'll have to take over more of the chores and help her more with her work, but I don't mind the distraction.
Insomnia is having a field day again, no progress on trying to find something/a grounding exercise that tethers me to my emotions. I've been keeping myself busy (the only thing worse than stress is boredom, I've been known to think myself into a full-blown flashback/panic attack, especially during generally stressful times), but I did remember to eat something. Doesn't seem much, but when I'm like this, it's an accomplishment. Still not good at that whole self care thing.
I hope I'll get some sleep today and maybe avoid a migraine (knowing myself, I'll probably get one within the next week, oh joy...)
I'm still in emotional shut-down, my mother's worried and stressed out, guess I'll have to take over more of the chores and help her more with her work, but I don't mind the distraction.
Insomnia is having a field day again, no progress on trying to find something/a grounding exercise that tethers me to my emotions. I've been keeping myself busy (the only thing worse than stress is boredom, I've been known to think myself into a full-blown flashback/panic attack, especially during generally stressful times), but I did remember to eat something. Doesn't seem much, but when I'm like this, it's an accomplishment. Still not good at that whole self care thing.
I hope I'll get some sleep today and maybe avoid a migraine (knowing myself, I'll probably get one within the next week, oh joy...)
You are pretty smart smart enough to go beyond what your classes are. I spent a whole year learning to cook Chinese food. Kinda different for a Native American, but I can do it pretty well now. I started by reading why certain combinations of spices make the flavors.
Then I started putting the recipe's in to action. We had at least two meals a week during that phase.
My current reading outside of class work is the anything I find on the Mars Rover, and that of New Horizon as it explores to the edge of our solar system.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html
Since these can be done at any time and are always adding new data. It takes me out of my reactive zone.
Just an example.
Let yourself have the time and space to do something besides helping others, okay? I look for rocks. Weird, but I live in a geological happy zone, so.... I am putside, focusing, so ething quoet and dostracting, but no apparent coreect feature on this ipad, sorry.... point being, I like to avoid the stress with quiet activity, since my old "run till I drop" thing stopped working about, oh, adolescence.
Support to you...