h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have several ways of coping with stress and feeling down. Some of them are good ways of dealing with it and others are what are known as poor coping strategies. The good ways are such things as gaming, but I only know two other gamers around here and one lives nearly 50 miles away. I also, sometimes, do some kind of manual work which involves physical exertion. Another is writing, some of my writings can be found at http://tbfalsename.deviantart.com/gallery/#Writings , most of them are tat, but a few aren't too bad.
I wrote a poem tonight and it helped a bit, but now we get on to the poor coping strategies. When I'm stressed I get an, occasionally overwhelming, desire to hurt someone, normally myself. Right now I really want to cause myself pain and I shall probably end up doing so before I go to sleep tonight. Not sure why I wrote this, other than the obvious cathartic properties of just getting it out.




which I'm stating for the record, right now, is not related to anyone in particular, no matter what you may think if you read it.

, if you need to unload, I'm at the end of an email

Thanks

being lonely is unfortunately the human condition. No one copes well with ill health or being isolated .If it helps i will be your surrogate mum My email is on my page. I can offer virtual hugs and a listening ear and as i am off work at the moment will be around more often.
You always have friends on hootoo...they have kept me going when I was down

TB, if my life depended on it, I still could not explain why nothing within the universe will ever get me down - but if a little of it can rub off mate it's yours and as your/our other friends have said, I'm only an email away

hi tb
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when i get stressed, i just stick on a really boring programme, and think, why did they ever do it in the first place.
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livig with a 33 yr old pain in the neck,im stressed at least once a week,
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the weekend at hull was my release valve, but i had to come back to the pain in the neck. lol
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jim

Hi TB, I know the feeling all too well sadly. There's a rather good link in my ps relating to depression, well worth a read. All I can say is, don't keep things bottled up, the old adage, 'it's good to talk' is true.
Take care, you have a lot of friends here only too willing to listen

TB, you know where we are.. keep in touch

I agree with ST (Now there's a first!!) don't keep it in, talk to someone, we're all mates here so pick anyone of us and let it out

Thanks peeps, I've been 'unwell' for a while after I had a very stressful episode a couple of months back. I thought I was pretty much over it, then this weekend I was great, I even got over that episode with the bus fairly quickly. However this week I crashed back down with a major bang and I'm now in a state of almost nihilistic apathy.

Those are recognised as the Post Meet Blues, hunny..

If you have already had problems, they seem to all come tumbling back at you.. You know where we are.. Keep talking

I've never had it like this after a meet before, maybe it's the fact that I wasn't top notch to begin with. Everything just seems like more effort than it's actually worth at the moment.

Well if you're not feeling just perfect, it's easy to feel a bit low after things that wouldn't normally phase you. Happens to me. But you'll be fine. get a good night's sleep too. If you're still travelling about I'm sure you can't be sleeping or eating the same.

nihilistic apathy ????. There you go! bringing politics in, I've never voted for them in my life, don't even know who the leader is

I've just written another poem, a more light hearted one, called Deep Down In The Bublalu, as I needed to do something a bit more cheery.

It's here -> http://tbfalsename.deviantart.com/art/Deep-Down-In-The-Bublalu-92019057

that's brill'
actually I reckon that you could make that in to a "land and inhabitants" like a form of narnia ? as in kids on a quest of sorts maybe

Yay!


Maybe you could offer it to ?

If The Post are interested then they can put it in there...I suppose I'll have to email it to them. Someone, I shan't mention names, corrected a deliberately misspelled word in my last submission.

I'm sure that wasn't me..

It wasn't a big thing, they corrected 'et' to 'ate'. However, while you can say something was et, you cannot say that same something was ate..well you can, but it's very poor grammer.