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"Situations are tough, but you try to survive day by day as you are stuck inside your small apartment during quarantine. Every day, you try to remain strong, plowing through the negativity that you face daily - local news to your own demons. A gut feeling is telling you to call for help; for someone to help aid you though these hard times. But wanting to be strong and/or not to be a burden upon your friends, you remain alone. More and more, bad news from social media keeps coming to you every day as the situation gets worse outside, muting anything positive you try to look for online. Trapped in your own chamber, you feel like your world has shrunk, leaving you with nothing but the four same walls every day. You can't see your friends and you cant go outside. Your social life is almost non-existent. More things start to get to you, even stuff that never bothered you before are now feeling that they are just testing your patience. They start piling up, causing your emotional state to become more fragile and your patience shortening. One day, over something small and maybe non-existent, you just snap - unable to hold back your emotions you lash out to anything not bolted down in your room. Your small isolated world became a battlefield for your angry emotions, leaving all your furniture and belongings disorganized and broken on the floor.
"You come to as you snap back to reality. The emotional hurricane that you started now subsisted, and you are left alone in a chaotic room. What anger clouded your mind now lifted and you are left with the feeling of being vulnerable and depressed. After it takes you a while to get your thoughts together, you start to break down into tears. Alone and scared, you reach for your phone and desperately call someone you love and trust. You need to hear their voice - that lifeline that will help you bring yourself back to calmness. Your pride now shattered - the one thing holding you back from seeking help. After the phone is answered and you hear that soothing voice on the other line, you muster up your words in a trembling tone: 'I need your help.' "
These times are tough and a lot of people are suffering from what is going on in the world - emotionally, physically and mentally. The important thing you need to remember during these times is that you are NOT alone. If you start to feel depressed, unstable and vulnerable, speak to the person you love and trust dearly. If you don't have anyone, seek the guidance of a therapist or doctor. Seeking help is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign that you value your safety and well being. If you feel like you are starting to lose control and feel hopeless, make that call. Stay in contact. You will get though this.
artwork © 2020 Alex Cockburn
"You come to as you snap back to reality. The emotional hurricane that you started now subsisted, and you are left alone in a chaotic room. What anger clouded your mind now lifted and you are left with the feeling of being vulnerable and depressed. After it takes you a while to get your thoughts together, you start to break down into tears. Alone and scared, you reach for your phone and desperately call someone you love and trust. You need to hear their voice - that lifeline that will help you bring yourself back to calmness. Your pride now shattered - the one thing holding you back from seeking help. After the phone is answered and you hear that soothing voice on the other line, you muster up your words in a trembling tone: 'I need your help.' "
These times are tough and a lot of people are suffering from what is going on in the world - emotionally, physically and mentally. The important thing you need to remember during these times is that you are NOT alone. If you start to feel depressed, unstable and vulnerable, speak to the person you love and trust dearly. If you don't have anyone, seek the guidance of a therapist or doctor. Seeking help is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign that you value your safety and well being. If you feel like you are starting to lose control and feel hopeless, make that call. Stay in contact. You will get though this.
artwork © 2020 Alex Cockburn
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"These times are tough and a lot of people are suffering from what is going on in the world - emotionally, physically and mentally. The important thing you need to remember during these times is that you are NOT alone. If you start to feel depressed, unstable and vulnerable, speak to the person you love and trust dearly. If you don't have anyone, seek the guidance of a therapist or doctor."
Well that is helpful advice. Though many can sadly become addicted to such behavior taught and pulled by something they feel was lost. It is my hope that such can be saved but at times they just wont you. It is at least good that there are somethings like this now a days.
I’ve been using an app on my phone that lets me talk with licensed therapists. It’s called Sanvello. I’m using the free version and it’s good. I also live with my fiancé.
There’s the national suicide prevention hotline as well. Despite the name they will just chat with you if you need it as well.
There’s the national suicide prevention hotline as well. Despite the name they will just chat with you if you need it as well.
All alone
Or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down
Outside the wall...
Some...hand in hand...
Some gather together in bands...
The bleeding hearts of the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger
And fall after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall...
Or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down
Outside the wall...
Some...hand in hand...
Some gather together in bands...
The bleeding hearts of the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger
And fall after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall...
You're not going to like this. But I experianced my worse prior to the emergence of the disease. We are social animals, to lose connections can eventually cause a lost of self. Just when I made the most effort for recovery, the quarantine hit. Since then, I've made advancements where others fall apart. Not a day goes by where I don't make connections of my falling and other's, and I know I can help, but the don't accept aid. I may never be on the other end of that line.
Is it possible to hide a story and tell one?
Is it possible to hide a story and tell one?
One thing I will say to any and everyone in these times:
You CAN go outside. Don't coop yourself up until you go insane.
You don't even need a mask to do it. Go out, take a walk someplace quiet and natural, or even just take a walk down a quiet street. As long as you're not getting into crowds and such, you're fine.
Walk. Breathe. Talk to yourself! (Hey, it works for me sometimes. ^^;) Nature, despite being the source of this sickness, does NOT hate you. It's not trying to kill you. Go out and enjoy it, and let some of the stress go through the beating of your heart, then flexing of your muscles, and the breathing of some fresh air.
Also, if you find yourself watching too much TV or news? Stop doing that. (I know the old doctor joke; 'Doctor it hurts when I do this.' 'Well, stop doing that.') TV was always meant to be a partial pastime, not a full time job, and the news is mostly partizan bullshit these days. Other than peeking at it to keep aware of any changes, don't sink yourself too deeply into it. Even the entertainment aspect of it only lasts as long as the experience is new and interesting, rather than as daily a process as waking up.
You CAN go outside. Don't coop yourself up until you go insane.
You don't even need a mask to do it. Go out, take a walk someplace quiet and natural, or even just take a walk down a quiet street. As long as you're not getting into crowds and such, you're fine.
Walk. Breathe. Talk to yourself! (Hey, it works for me sometimes. ^^;) Nature, despite being the source of this sickness, does NOT hate you. It's not trying to kill you. Go out and enjoy it, and let some of the stress go through the beating of your heart, then flexing of your muscles, and the breathing of some fresh air.
Also, if you find yourself watching too much TV or news? Stop doing that. (I know the old doctor joke; 'Doctor it hurts when I do this.' 'Well, stop doing that.') TV was always meant to be a partial pastime, not a full time job, and the news is mostly partizan bullshit these days. Other than peeking at it to keep aware of any changes, don't sink yourself too deeply into it. Even the entertainment aspect of it only lasts as long as the experience is new and interesting, rather than as daily a process as waking up.
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