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Posted by med_empowered on November 24, 2005, at 1:40:54
What I'm thankful for....
family, my few (but very close and cherished) friends. My intelligence, my personality. My sensitivity...although it can sometimes make me crazy, and make life hell. My past--the ups, the downs, the boring and the terrifying and the beautiful and the ugly--all of it. My present--for what its worth, I'm still around, and that certainly is something. My future--increasingly, I believe there is one. And I think it will be very good, indeed.
I'm thankful for psycho-babble, too. Its so hard to go along this journey of anxiety and voices and depression and drugs (oh, so many drugs!). I know this board is mostly about drugs, and other boards about other issues--parents, therapy, books, etc. etc.--but really, its all the same: when you come to psychobabble, your life is rough. Hopefully, as you stick around, your life gets less rough, maybe even good, and you can connect with other people. Sometimes, the most it seems you can hope for is to simply make day-to-day living bearable, or less miserable. That's OK. In a weird way, I'm kind of thankful for those dark days and nights (and weeks and months...) and the support of everyone here.
So...this was long and rambling, but...HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!
Posted by snapper on November 24, 2005, at 4:13:52
In reply to A Mental Patient's Thanksgiving, posted by med_empowered on November 24, 2005, at 1:40:54
med_ thanks for that.... I know I feel a lot of what you feel, .maybe more and maybe lesss. I sometimes.often times look forward to the holidays and yet at the very same moment dread thier very existance. This year , and maybe part of last year, but mostly this year I am somewhat looking forward to thier being and coming to us. It shows me how far I have come in just "one" year.! I am struggling a lot, but what I do have to be thankful is a lot. last year I thought I would never be out of my parents house. Now I have my onw place and soon will be moving into an even better place! My car is a blessing ..even though I can't at the moment really afford it ...but none the less I am at a better place than I was one year ago....!! So many other things that are not all neccessarily material... the mood swings are still there, the INTENSE anxiety is ever present. But at least I am not hiding in my room at my parents home! I have made a few road-trips.. Done things that I have not done in 5 years or more and much more. The meds are not right, the lonliness is there as ever, the aches the pains ...both physically and emotionally are also there and very much a un-welcome duty of this beast of an illness. I am further now than I EVER THOUGHT I COULD BE AGAIN!!! I will not ramble.. I am thankful for the positives and the negatives ..There is growth to be found and more to come . I have re-aqquainted with MANY of my old friends and aqquaintances that I thought I would never want to see or talk to again.I am glad to report they are and were glad to see me!!! This is my thanksgiving this year ---with many smiles and many mixed in tears!! Happy TG to all. Thanks my PB FRIENDS
My best
Snapper
Posted by pseudoname on November 24, 2005, at 6:17:01
In reply to Re: A Mental Patient's Thanksgiving » med_empowered, posted by snapper on November 24, 2005, at 4:13:52
med_e–
>I'm thankful for psycho-babble
Me, too. I've gotten so much from Babblers in just the last week! Marsha & Ed told me how to not puke my new medicine; Larry gave me a brilliant way to measure my very tiny doses; GG & others helped me think about the Dalai Lama; lots of people let me feel like I have something to contribute. Thank you, Robert Hsiung, for making this civil forum possible for so long.
snapper–
Your post is very encouraging. Congrats on what you've done so far, especially getting your own place and re-connecting with friends. I'm thankful for good-news posts like yours, which are not so common on Babble.
...And I think I'm grateful for my new med.....which seems to be working.....at least so far.... (I DON'T WANT TO JINX IT!!!)...
> Happy Thanksgiving everyone
Ditto. Even you Aussies, Canadians & Brits, who have to work today! ;-)
Posted by ed_uk on November 24, 2005, at 13:08:06
In reply to ..for Babble » med_empowered » snapper, posted by pseudoname on November 24, 2005, at 6:17:01
>Even you Aussies, Canadians & Brits, who have to work today! ;-)
LOL yes :-) I didn't even know it was thanksgiving <blush> HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! What exactly is thanksgiving anyway? I've heard of it (from TV) but I don't really know what it is.
Love
Ed
Posted by sleepygirl on November 24, 2005, at 19:12:39
In reply to Re: ..for Babble » pseudoname, posted by ed_uk on November 24, 2005, at 13:08:06
Since you asked....:-)
many, many years ago pilgrims from Plymouth England came to the united states and struggled hard to establish themselves on the untamed american frontier. Many of them died and were unable to produce enough food for themselves. The local indians (native americans) taught them how to grow enough food. To thank the native americans for their help, and in the spirit of peace between their people, they invited them to a great feast - the first thanksgiving. So each year we eat a TREMENDOUS amount of food, especially turkey and get together and try to remember to be thankful.
Posted by willyee on November 24, 2005, at 19:17:55
In reply to A Mental Patient's Thanksgiving, posted by med_empowered on November 24, 2005, at 1:40:54
You missed one thing.....PERSONAL STRENTGH,anyone able to balance the enormous pain and agony of an untreated emotional disease and yet still put that fake smile on everyday,and dive into the world and take on there responsabilites has to have an incredably strong spirit.
There were so many times i can look back and remeber a time when i dident see no way out,i thought it was curtains.My father always tells me where i pull this strentgh from to recover and keep going and going is beyond him,i think we should all remeber that and not feel too modest to give ourselves a pat on the back and thank ourselves,our souls our spirits from giving in to our sometimes illogiacal destructive twisted mind.
I am thankful that the spirit is stronger than the mind!
Posted by pseudoname on November 24, 2005, at 19:41:27
In reply to Re: ..for Babble » ed_uk, posted by sleepygirl on November 24, 2005, at 19:12:39
My Canadian friends newly arrived in the U.S. have expressed surprise at how seriously America takes this holiday, which they don't have at home. (Or, they have a junior imitation of it, some other time in the year.) Although everyone will be traveling again in less than a month for Christmas get-togethers and although Thanksgiving falls on a weekday, seemingly everyone travels home if possible; those who can't get together for the dinner with their closest friends. Nothing else is done on Thanksgiving. Virtually all businesses close, and it's all for nothing but a home-cooked meal (HUGE, as sleepygirl says), thankfulness, and togetherness. No gifts, no church, no pageant, no gimmicks.
I myself am stuffed.
Posted by Phillipa on November 24, 2005, at 22:26:59
In reply to Re: ..for Babble » ed_uk, posted by sleepygirl on November 24, 2005, at 19:12:39
Excellent history lesson. That's where Thanks giving came from. Happy Thanksgiving to all! Fondly, Phillipa PS Garden Ridge in Charlotte NC is open . Sales in most departments mosting 50% off Christmas items. Fondly, Phillipa again
Posted by ed_uk on November 25, 2005, at 13:37:41
In reply to Re: ..for Babble » ed_uk, posted by sleepygirl on November 24, 2005, at 19:12:39
Hi Sleepy
Thank you for explaining :-) I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.
Did you feal bloated after the big meal?
Ed x
Posted by ed_uk on November 25, 2005, at 13:39:22
In reply to Re: Thanksgiving » ed_uk, posted by pseudoname on November 24, 2005, at 19:41:27
Hi PN
>My Canadian friends newly arrived in the U.S. have expressed surprise at how seriously America takes this holiday, which they don't have at home. (Or, they have a junior imitation of it, some other time in the year.)
We don't even have a junior imitation! We do (apparantly) have more/longer holidays than you do though :-)Ed
Posted by sleepygirl on November 25, 2005, at 15:32:25
In reply to Re: ..for Babble » sleepygirl, posted by ed_uk on November 25, 2005, at 13:37:41
Yes thank you, it was a nice thanksgiving. No problem about the info - I don't really remember too many specifics about the holiday, but that's the gist of it.
I felt sort of ill actually after the food!!
too much at once makes sleepygirl unhappy :-(PS I had ice cream cake shaped like a turkey :-)
Posted by sleepygirl on November 25, 2005, at 15:32:54
In reply to Re: ..for Babble , posted by sleepygirl on November 25, 2005, at 15:32:25
Posted by ed_uk on November 26, 2005, at 14:05:24
In reply to Re: ..for Babble , posted by sleepygirl on November 25, 2005, at 15:32:25
>too much at once makes sleepygirl unhappy :-(
That sounds like a proverb or something :-)
Ed x
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