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OT? TW? Sounds of Lonesome

arfie
arfie

Not sure how off topic loneliness is. Nothing triggers my symptoms meaner than feeling lonesome. Stress might be tied for first place, but not even stress can beat loneliness for triggering symptoms. Since the people I wish I was loving are a 14 hour drive away, been singing lonesome songs. Singing those long, mournful tones helps me find the tears which let me massage the ache forsaking my songs. For me, it is important to sing those tones myself. The mournful tones moving through my strictly personal respiratory are what massage the physical ache.


Anyhoo. . . Wanna swap some sounds of lonesome? Here is the one I've been singing enough to get the neighbors complaining today:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbZ0bDxXts


I can take ALLOT of repetition, but even *I* need a bit of variety. This one seems to be crowding in:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEwR9_Sy_M

arfie
arfie
Learned something. . . You need a return or space at the end of a link to activate the hyperlink. FWIW. Reposting that second link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEwR9_Sy_M
patti22
patti22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOiW_xY-kc
arfie
arfie
Love the video context of cars in gridlock. I've often wondered about all those faces in the cars I'm trapped with. Indeed, "Everybody Hurts."
BlueSky
BlueSky
I think having PTSD you already feel so alone. So... loneliness is definitely a trigger, or at least a PTSD factor and can exacerbate your emotional pain during a flare. Speaking of myself.
BlueSky
BlueSky
But it's also why we vets remind each other to be aware of other vets during emotional crisis and keep them company in their darkest hour no matter how much they say they want to be alone. Leaving them to suffer the darkness alone often results in suicide.
arfie
arfie
Good point, Blue. More than a trigger? A direct link to the devil's cauldron?
arfie
arfie
In my own case, the Army quite literally rescued me from the throw-away kid camps. Boot camp was literally the first time I had a bed of my own and 3 meals a day. The 299 roommates seemed a small consequence.

Keeping my fellow vets company during their proverbial darkest hours feels like building on strength to me.
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5mCBFejIE
arfie
arfie
What a pretty man!!! Purty song, too.
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
Yea that’s a pretty song the first ones one of my lonely crying songs but the seconds a lonely dancin song :)
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
I don’t think the posts of topic tho, I hope the tears help. I understand loneliness too & something about the winters can make stuff feel more lonely sometimes
Big hugs Arfie <3
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
& I hope you feel better too
patti22
patti22
I've known the armed forces to save more than one person.

And well, not quite manage to do it for a few others.
patti22
patti22
The Waiting is the Hardest Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=padBMW652No
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