Posted by shar on October 4, 2003, at 22:09:53
In reply to Re: Anybody down? » shar, posted by NikkiT2 on October 4, 2003, at 8:27:49
Nikki,
Well, I don't know if this'll help, but I think you win the prize right now for crummy things going on! Wow, I do not know if I could even hold up to all of that, especially from friends who need so much--I have about a thimbulful of energy right now. Whew!BTW, I don't think 'useless' fits in with helping friends, especially your friend who needed admission to the hospital (I assume). Now, if that means not functioning as well as you'd like, I can totally relate, but...look at the good things you're doing.
Tho I can't offer much across the cyber-waves, please remember to do the best you can to be easy on yourself, even if that means your friends don't get filled up.
And, let us hear from you! (please)
xoxo
Shar
> I'm having a very hard time of it right now.. very very low, very very stressed.. just feeling useless..
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> But, so many of my friends are struggling at the moment.. and they all need me for support.. so I am being bled dry by some of them, and don't know what to do about it.. I tried talking to a friend the other night when she called me, and all I got was "I'm the one struggling, you're a really awful friend for trying to turn it round to you"... If this person tells me once more what a terrible terrible friend I am.. then.. I don't know what I will do.
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> Then thursday night, 2am, another friend decides to totally lose the plot, so I was up all night (got 2 hours sleep) and spent all day yesterday getitng him sectioned (not easy, as you have to be next of kin to do so, but he has no family left in UK now, only his pregnant girlfriend, who lives in Southern Ireland, so not UK)
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> I'm empty and totally and utterly lost
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> Nikki
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