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Originally Posted by andi
I have been feeling like this more and more lately. Everything is going wrong. i took on a really big [whatever] home improvement project and I knew better but you know how we do...i can do it. Well I did do it. i accomplished the project. Now i feel like I am going to die. [Yes!! This!!]
background...over 2 years out. auto accident..pcs..headaches, confusion anger, emotional instability.etc etc
Anyway...the project took me about 6 months and I had very little help. now my relationship with my boyfriend is falling apart. we have been together a year and 3 months or so...AND we are long distance which makes it even harder. But I have plans to move, always was moving there, am not moving there just for him. i did however pick up the pace big time getting myself into too much too fast and with no help. my bad.
i am totally flying off the handle all the time. I feel totally hopeless. i am seeing a social worker which has helped in the past but nothing is helping. i was put on zoloft about 5 months ago and it was helping a lot especially with anxiety but it doesn't seem to be helping much now even though i increased my dose.
every little thing is just so overwhelming. I only leave the house now to work and grocery shop and necessary things. i hate house arrest but i don't know what else to do.
I'm so sick of this controlling me. I feel like i am going to be alone forever because there is no way anyone is going to let "that" into their life/house..whatever.
What do you do when your this low and nothing is helping.
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Hello, andi -
I so completely resonate on the same wavelength as you wrote above. So much so that I've
highlighted in blue your quote wherein I have had persistently the
very same thoughts and same words playing nonstop 24/7 for 9 months now in my mind.
It has put me into nonstop-panic-mode 24/7 for these past 9 months of 2012 year#4 post-life changing closed-head/brain traumatic event. That's no real life. I've repeatedly requested Rxklonazepan; instead "Let's change antidepressant" or "add another", yada yada yada.
SO in reply to your question,
"What do you do when your this low and nothing is helping?"
All I can offer is my own "only best answer" to that for myself. I am going January to go do a *free* 10-day-residential intensive vipassana meditation training in a regional residential meditation center. *Free* room and board x 11 days also.
10-days of voluntary silence (NO talking, NO cell phones, NO smartfones, NO smartPads or computers, NO internet, NO tv, NO music
It's my only best hope of learning *a way* simply to work with my mind, simply as it is, simply as I am, to cope, to simply live, and be fully alive, present. And thrive again, yes. I'm likely much older than you; widowed; yet I like you want to love and relationship in my life.
I withdrew this year into virtual isolation & silence, a 'self-imprisonment' in my own mind, in my home, not going out socially all year, 9 months straight. I've been quiet, I've been still --- but my mind is never quiet, never still, never a moment's rest. I've been in hell in my mind 24/7
I've been "toughing it out" all 2012 and it's not workin' for me.
If you're interested, ask and I'll send to you the link to the center nearest to you.
The Southeast region meditation center would be driveable for you, if you still live in East Tenn.
It costs no money, non-profit; it's not a religion; I'm unaffiliated, not selling or advising anything.
Meanwhile, perhaps you may find some a ray of hope, reading an earlier thread I started a few days ago hoping to hear of NeuroTalk members experience with actively
using meditation post-TBI-PCS and the stress of
trying to cope, living with newly-acquired cognitive dysfunction..
That thread link, titled "
Insight meditation training?" is hopefully neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread177285.html
Vipassana meditation is the training I am going to do. It's a 2500 yr old method. It's free.
Here's the link:
http://www.dhamma.org/
Insight meditation is a 'generic' name for vipassana meditation. May or may not be free.
Here's the link:
http://www.dharma.org/
MBSR/Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is U Mass. Medical School program of health. Costs $.
Quick wiki-info link on MBSR is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindful...ress_reduction
And MBSR weblinks:
http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=41254
Official MBSR website at U. Mass.
http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx...kIdentifier=id
http://www.dhamma.org/
http://www.dhamma.org/
http://www.dhammabrothers.com/
Moving, inspiring documentary film, short ~:50min.; avail online and via netflicks, or public libraries.
http://www.dharma.org/ Insight meditation
Best regards,
Theta
