Getting that Anxiety/Panic forum vibe back

YES I know this is the a/p forum and yes I am not putting down a/p depression stress or anything to do with any illness or disorder we all have

I use to jump outta bed to get on here and read the posts yes there were questions answered and all that BUT we also had a " family " atmosphere happening here and we also made up some threads to make ppls days a lil easier ...

There were / are many good threads to jump in on and they dont always have to be NEGATIVE.....

I feel we have had a change in the air here and I don't think I am the only one ......members alike..........

I come here now same rhetoric I ask to look for existing threads no one does .okay thats cool I AM NOT your boss and trying not to be believe me..YOU ( I ) have a/p IT doesnt have you nor me I refuse to let it win all the time a small step makes a big difference IMHO

I have followed Porridge .....And Shortstops journeys thru this and there fight to better selves with ir w/o meds .......they have done it with Baby steps

Megs HAS QUIT drinking ......Kudos .......

Vic has gone and got a new job and is making the fight daily BUT fighting non the less

Shy is doing lots better

Lil One is at least trying ....all you can do ........TRY ...Have Faith in whatever YOU believe in I do and I get thru it all I dont bring half my crud to the boards I have to deal with it and I do

It took m many yrs to see that life n laughter really does help so does having

"That Lil Fam" feeling we had here............ oh not so long ago

Dave has come back from back surgury and he is tryigng to help as well

I see debaser trying to help and support ppl as well as JD.....

THATS WHAT WE ARE

Supposed to do

BUT we are or should be able to come here and feel that family feeling the comaderie the laughs quips and sometimes weird n funny things we do .........

We cannot ( me included) stay standing still it wont help you one Dang bit ........

Laughter is a good wa to help the a/p even if you are laughing at self ya know

Self help tech's are mentioned over and over and yet are they being used?? For the most part yes I see some ppl use them

I am not trying to cause a big argument ................debate ......or whatever

NOT putting ANYONE down ...................NO ONE AT ALL!!!!!

I just hope that the feeling that has been missing for some while now does come back

I miss having myself get a chuckle in the am and YET I still answer the posts and so do all others ......I do take this illness very serious as I do the FIGHT to regain some semblance in your lives

I have made self more aware of techniques to help me out as well as I post and see if they will help anyone else .....as do others and I hope thy help

Please for you ole timers let get it back ........and from my heart the newbies too

I KNOW I am not the only one thinking and feeling this way

Will let them that wish to speak for self

Take care and PLEASE don't read anything that IS NOT there into my post please.......

God Bless and I hope you get what I am trying to say .......

Well, maybe we should start a thread that re-introduces everyone? You know...what TV or Movie character are you most like in real life? What are your guilty pleasures? What's the worst or craziest thing you've ever done? What kind of music do you like? What era did you come of age in? That sort of thing.

There hasn't been a lot of off-topic discussion around here since I've been around. Maybe it would help break the ice?

Thanks Dave and all others that posted I would love to have " that same feeling Back"

We had good times and yes we GOT thru all the bad still it was a great place to come to for a person that needed to see how a/p affects us but also what we can do to help and that includes silly..off the wall posts as well ......
Am starting some tomorrow
Had sunstroke and cracked head on cement wall ....dont ask lol I am a bumble Muck

Luvs and thanks to all
Mom
/ Sis / Lyn/ Cowgirl UPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

ME TOO ME TOO

I am sooooo Happy that we are getting that "feeling back "



Yes the anxiety sucks for all of us but we need to move forward .......

And try to work on it TOGETHER......... yeah and we would .......



Support care and empathy is the same as always we just have to get some good things going on as well ............



Laughter ..........IS one of the best medicines in my opinion ,.as well as feeling like " our Lil family is back"

I have been a member of healing well for a year and a half and things aren't the same as they used to be and me and lyn have talked about this lately. I have been through a horrendous time but .... through sheer determination .... am coming through the other side and I find it frustrating, upsetting and exhausting when people here won't even try a little bit to help themselves. I'm not saying it's easy as I know from experience that it's not but day after day, I find myself getting bogged down by the number of negative posts here and it really is hard. I know people are all going through such hard tomes but there never used to be this much negativity.
I think the main thing to concentrate on in the forum is getting better and recovering - because it can be done. If we focus on the negatives all of the time, it gets us nowhere - and I for one have learnt that.
I find that sometimes people can thrive from their illness and it is very unhealthy to live that way. I was in hospital last year with depression and anxiety but now, I want out of the system and to get back on with my life. I do still have hard times but I have learnt god coping mechanisms and skills to know how to deal with that and I am a much stronger person for recovering from this.

I really do thing HW has changed and I want to be able to come on here and volunteer the way I used to and feel as though I was helping someone but these days, any advice almost goes unnoticed and people are happy to ignore what is said to them. I almost feel as though I'm talking to a brick wall some days.

I am busy in my new job but do come online when I can to volunteer but I am finding it harder and harder to cope with the negativity. People should want to get better and not think of how bad they are feeling all of the time. I was pretty bad last year and saw no way out, but now I am much stronger, have my own business and am so glad that I am here and living.

I am sorry to go on but this has been on my mind now for a while and I have almost been thinking of stepping down as a moderator and just becoming a member instead. I havent made my mind up yet but I really do hope that things go back to how they were and we all regain some of that closeness and positivity that we used to have.

Take care all - I do care about the members and other mods here and just want everyone to be able to have some happiness and positivity in their lives.

XX

I am back now Lyn so maybe that good old feeling will come back too LOL

hello,

well, i hope you are not talking about ME, since i have only been here since Sept. And actually, i only visit once in a while.

i have noticed some posts on here that seemed pretty desperate, and then it looks like the people didn't check back in to see how others responded. which seems pretty rude.

And one time I felt flamed by a guy, like he was making fun of people. then i didn't come back for several weeks

i get really sensitive that people are judging me, don't like me. i used to go to a 12-step group, and one time i heard one of the longtime people say she just doesn't want to get to know new people, that she doesn't trust them, etc. I felt very crushed because i liked her, and i just never went back to that particular group because i felt the people were very clique-ish at that point.

so i hope you don't mind new people. i just feel strange about some of the "how was your day" type stuff because I don't feel i have as bad a case of a/p as other people. so i can't always related to what is posted here. i have never been hospitalized, etc. i am more in lifelong mild depression mode, but it is the anxiety which is kind of new and scares the h out of me and annoys me.

-- mary kay

I wasn't really sure what Lyn meant for a long time, but I think I've noticed some positive change around here. I think I may have been the source of some of the negativity, and for that I'm sorry.

I just hope people who are having "crisis moments" or whatever don't feel frozen out. Sometimes people come on and they are pretty desperate. I was one of them for quite a while. I always felt like I should respond to what people had written to me, though. I think that's important. But sometimes A/P causes people to get a little more self-centered than they usually are and we should try to be patient with them.

edit:

daisysmom,

I forgot to say that I think you should post in whatever forum you want to. Don't hold back. The people here are friendly and suffer from widely varying degrees of anxiety/panic. Plus, I'd venture to guess most of them have gone through some depression, too (I know I have). They seem to go hand in hand at times.

Hi all
Daisymom
No hun it is not you and I am truly SORRY if you felt flamed or hurt by anyone here
Thats not what the foum is about

Debaser ....NO you are NOTTTTT the cause okay..YOU have made giant steps and progress

My point was this

You keep trying to help ppl out and there are many you included debaser that HAVE made steps and started to win this war ...there are many others as well

Yet I find that there are some that just dont want to get out of the "comfy" place they are in NO matter how bad it may be ya know .....
I was just making a observation from a few months back til recently and I felt I had to say something to all .....

I had IV put in again yesterday debaser so I will go to blog later today after meds get put in I am broke out in sores all over once again lol
Jeshhhh Never a dull moment

Take care al and please DO bring your concerns HERE about the forum and we shall see what can be done
Again DM I am so sorry
Please post more and stay with us

Janet sweetie
Good to see you and nope not you either ...lol
PPL that are fighting and tryig are doing the best for themselves as you know

All my love
LYN

I have brought this up for ppl to re read or read for the first time ..........
Not seeing much going on and I only wish I did

It is a sad day when I think what I am thinking ........

FINALLY I seem to feel a change in the air and some of that "good ole family feeling" is making its way back


I am so happy for this truly yeah



WE are here to listen support and help when we can where we can but please dont forget to show yourself some steps and dont be afraid to put down your PROGRESS



There are soo Many things we can do as an extended family most of all BE GOOD to one another as you"s always are



Keep supporting ppl all the way



REMEMBER to LAUGH....it helps it really does



Dont be afraid to post a thread on silly things we do ( cuz I know I do some doozies )LOL



IT is great to feel this good feeling again ya know



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LYN