How is your day going?

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  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    To be honest I think this time of year tends to bounce off my other mental health conditions. But it’s also the time of the year to make you think of family, however due to me not having contact with my family I don’t want to think of them. Plus it was always my ex wife’s favourite time of the year, but in all honesty I hate Christmas. I always preferred working Christmas when I was a support worker and have always treated it as a normal day. I’ve not even watched any Christmas films since 2022.

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    I’ve tended to find this time of year challenging as it plays off my other mental health conditions. I always preferred to work it during my time as a Support Worker. I’m not a fan of the festivities as it’s over commercialised and crammed down your throat for four months of the year. It’s always a reminder of family and in all honesty I don’t want to have a reminder of my parents, sister and other members of the family on my dads side of the family.

    To me Christmas is always a reminder of the endless arguments I had with my ex wife, I’ll be glad next month to have my divorce finalised. Ironically the second divorce finalised in December ten years apart.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,368 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Christmas is definitely forced down your throat @Zippy1983, and it seems to be in shops earlier and earlier each year. It feels impossible to get away from which is tough when it's a difficult time of year for you.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering

    good evening …… yet another day… i did manage to go out to a workshop.. it is only once a month. so it was good… tomorrow again i have to go out. i really need to get the courage to go out tomorrow as well.. but it is a struggle to wake up every day …..

    anyway,,,, keep warm and sleep tight. and i think is good night for me as i am rather tired. i think it is going to be an early bed for me….

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering
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    Since selling my wedding ring earlier last year, something I wish I had not done so, but saying that wearing something that has your wedding date on the inside would of been a painful reminder.

    I’ve since been wearing a titanium claddagh ring with the heart facing inwards for if your married. However today I’ve finally ordered the above ring as a full time replacement on my wedding finger, even though I will be divorced as of next month. I’m going to continue wearing it with the heart facing inwards to symbolise lost love and what I’ve lost. But it’s also a symbol of strength and growth in my life since that dark day in October 2026

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,840 Championing

    I'm watching tv

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering
  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing

    I despise Christmas with a passion, never understood the need for it. by far the worst time of year. everyone gets stressed, shops go crazy, prices go up and they play ridiculous loud christmas music everywhere, not to mention everything shuts down for like a week and everywhere is crowded and busy.

    I pray for the day Christmas is abolished.

    My family ask me what I want for Christmas, and my answer is always to not celebrate Christmas.

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing

    Apologies i'm cranky for not being able to vape, still though I hate it, doesn't make sense.

    No offence to anyone.

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing

    Is it healthy to drink or lick vape liquid

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing

    I could put the oxygen on and shove some vape liquid in it

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    It’s only the start of the day and I can’t shut off, millions of things running riot inside my head at warp speed. Just questioning my existence, my life’s choices, thinking of my family as my old man is 70 next week, then thinking of all the stuff I need to do in the flat and outside of the flat.

    I’ve pushed myself the last few weeks, been to the cinema twice and been out to get my injections but then realised that it takes a mental toll on me, went to be on Saturday and couldn’t bring myself to get up until Tuesday Morning.

    Like an eejit, I’m off to watch another film this Friday and I’m questioning about going due to how busy it’s going to start being and also gonna be full of kids as I’m watching Zootopia 2.

    I am my own worse enemy, I do something, I buy something and I just end up criticising myself, getting angry with myself and then that all just sends me into a huge downward spiral.

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing

    You need to give yourself credit though you did those things, thats an accomplisment you should be proud of. Just take each day as they come. Sometimes it gets overwhelming when we plan or look too much in the future.

    I am very sensative to noise and can't do crowds, so cinemas for me would be torture.

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing
    edited November 2025

    So I know i'm weird and everything, but does anyone else sleep with the light on? I've never been able to sleep in the dark ever since I was born.

    Annoyingly though people have obsession on turning the light off when i'm trying to sleep and it instantly wakes me up and I have to ask them to keep it on.

    I also have my own blanket I can't sleep without, and literally take everywhere with me.

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 213 Empowering

    Good morning to everyone not looking forward too the days we had ahead same as today says minus 3 the gas bill ridiculous amount of money harder when can’t mobilise a lot

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    Been a long night, forgot to take my meds last night 🥱 very Baltic at the moment to say the very least, still got to put the plants and bulbs in the barrels! May have to resort to warming the soil with some warm water once planted.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    NNooooo im the opposite i have all lights off only tv is the light i have on i hate front room kitchen any bright lights on i walk around in the dark in winter

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    My sleep pattern getting so bad im up all night thinking of all manor of things my friend just lost her beautiful dog and my heart breaks for her and im desperately missing fifi my friends dog max was same age as fifi and thats how we became friends through fifi and max

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,463 Championing

    I'm so sorry, losing any animal is devastating. I'm a massive animal person myself and couldn't imagine your heartbreak. Take care of yourself.