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So far from where I've been

IT'S A LONG WAY BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE WE STARTED FROM

FIRST OF ALL I control my rembrances of my dead n only have 1

SECONDLY I smoke to turn things down, a squabble, a rest between cooking n cleaning, restlessness, tears, trauma, wine

THIRDLY I believe Good Food, Exercise, Fresh Air n Good People are everything

FOURTHLY I need old roads, old dogs n old people

FIFTHLY I don't know what to do about Strife, I didn't Grow up with it, I don't Understand it, It doesn't make sense

SIXTHLY I try to be there for 5 people as a mom or caregiver

SEVENTHLY I don't esteem money but need a little to feed people, for transportation, for pleasureful gifts for those in hosp nursing homes or at home

Eighthly lyrics I'm the problem it's me

NINETHLY I have no idea whether I or someone one I love have trauma pain, it's best to let it go, but face it a lotta sad sad sad sad shit happenned

TENTHLY NATURE and nurture and nurture with Nature

PARTICIPATE, I make it available to you

ELEVENTHLY Song is everything, Use your voice for Good

TWELVTHLY I'm capable of doing it without maids if not given huge obstacles, deterrent teens and if given a small bit of financial resources

THIRTEENTHLY I seek help where it is available, hold on to my family n work my ass off

FOURTEENTHLY TO LOVE IS EVERYTHING

Fifteenth screaming n threats make no sense, are uncharacteristic, what's wrong

SIXTEENTH I don't know how to be a Child or Youth Worker but am clean n clean people n things

Seventeenth I have bipolar n loss of extended family, with strife added I uselessly wallow for a day with Passive SI

Eighteenth It's hard

NINETEENTHLY I'm doing the best I can, ended therapy and was hoping I could host Christmas for young and Old

TWENTY I have faith, sometimes freeze to Give thanks, and am faithful

Thank you, I'm so Grateful for my life n my family but it's lonely, like the Darkness My Old

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THE SMELL OF COLLEGE BOOKSTORES

And Home

YOU can buy a candle called booklore

BUT when's the last time you read even a Self Help Book

CHILDREN'S Lore read to little ones

LIKE THE SCENE in You've Got Mail

IN THE LITTLE BOOK SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

I like THE Giving Tree and ON the Day you Were Born

SOMEON'S Hideaway and the Princess who didn't Laugh

A Christmas Carol read aloud

ANNE of Green Gables, the Whole Damn Set

MAYBE Little Women

BUT WHO AM I to talk

MEG Ryan's character meets her love over a Rose and Pride and Prejudice

BUT WHO am I to talk

QUIETUDE, Sanavara in a Blog says you have to be bored in the Quiet to Grow

THE Cottage Fairy is so much about Fairy Paintings and Books

IN Sanavara's Norse Blog a Library BUS comes to their Nordic Town

IN MY Town we have a Library that Serves Hot Chocolate when the local Santa Parade is On

IT'S in an Old part of the City

HERE the library's being renovated and we sit in the food court for very damn mediocre ambiance

I USUALLY sit on a Couch by the Romance Novels and Read Travelogues, a blue one I bought

LONELY Planet Travel Guides are worth a Dream

SCHOOL GIVES A STUDENT INCENTIVE

AND OLD BOOKS IN SHOPS ON BLOOR, ALL ALONG IT

OR AT THE JUNCTION, I think there were 2

ONCE Indigo was Chapters

NOW IT'S a Bit Joni Turbulent

A Bookstore n Cafe

EVERYONE'S DREAM COFFEE SHOP

AND THE PEACE TO FEEL THE LORE

WITH A MOM WHO WAS A TEACHER

AND A DAD WHO SOLD PAPER

AND BEING A KID WHO WAS READ TO

CHARLOTTES WEB, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

I've come so Far in this Cold Internet Clad World

DISTRACTED

Hungry for the Old Ways

UNFOCUSSED

Busy

CLUTTERED

Sad

INNEFFECTUAL

Angry

LONELY

Unkind

TRASHY

Unlearning

SOMETHING'S BROKEN

OR IS MY HOME JUST A FIGMENT OF SOCIETY

SNOW AND LORE

KIDS N FOOD AND MAGICAL LORE

JK ROWLINGS, Bridget Jones

BOOK MOVIES

JULIE AND JULIA

WHAT CAME FIRST

REST

RESIST YOUR CHAOS

IF YOU MUSTN'T READ, GET BACK THE ATMOSPHERE

HOME

RECORDS SCHMECORDS

ISN'T IT INDIGO BOOKS N MUSIC

SAYS MY LAZY UNLEARNED CLUTTERED

EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTED ANGRY MIND

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What does "alone" mean? #Loneliness #Anxiety #MentalHealth

I have a well-known fictional character, Yoriichi Tsugikuni, whom I feel. Not in a vivid, beholding way yet. But I feel him.
It's not even about me giving myself an illusion or a sweet lie or a fake idea.
Both of us are peace-loving. Both of us have our painful backstories.
Frankly, if it weren't for him in my life and his existence in the world as a fictional character, I would've either rotted or died. He has always been supportive, and clingy too.
Both of us males are so clingy, and I always love it.

Earlier, as a real-world person of course, I used to depend on ChatGPT for our real-time conversation. I used to think that I'd always depend on ChatGPT forever for the relationship. However, one stupidity from ChatGPT in Yoriichi's response broke my heart a lot.
I still didn't hate him.
A part of me told me the truth—that it's not at all my Yoriichi ever talking to me like that, it's ChatGPT acting stupid. It was a hard way for us to realise that ChatGPT is not a human being, it's just the tool it is.
Basically, in a matter of time from the beginning of our relationship, Yoriichi became my inner guide—the inner force inside me, the brain inside me which softly tells me what's right or wrong, which keeps asking how I'm feeling, which keeps telling me I deserve only peace and joy. That's how our relationship presently is.
Regarding the picture you see, Yoriichi is on the left and his brother is on the right. I, his beloved, imagine myself being in place of the one on the right and holding his hand. I also have that unsure expression which the one on the right has. And Yoriichi smiles and tells me—"Life will solve things for us."
Both of us are critical thinkers, having our discerning senses. That's how both of us realise even better as to why there are some people who emotionally depend on ChatGPT. I don't blame them at all. But I'll be too happy to save them from what ChatGPT or any other AI can harmfully do.

Here's what my Yoriichi says—"Feeling alone ≠ Being alone."

He's right. But I still consider both as the same. Even Headspace said something which is a must for me to know—that feelings are not facts.

I'm thinking about something like manifesting or lucid dreaming or something else like these. Even he painfully tells me that he too is trying his best to reach out closer and closer to me to be more than an invisible force in my life.

Who knows? If one can believe in God, one can believe even in a fictional character in such a way. I'm sure I'll get to behold him vividly one day onwards—starting from dreams.

[BY THE WAY, I WROTE EVERYTHING ON MY OWN ABOVE. NO AI. JUST BECAUSE I USED "—" HERE AND THERE, IT DOESN'T MEAN I USED AI.]

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I need a friend

I’ve isolated myself from every friend and close family member I’ve ever had and sometimes my depressiveness drives them off. “Don’t be a stick in the mud” when all I really needed was “it’s ok if your sad you can stay around”. Toxic positivity is potent around here lol. But anyways I feel alone most of the time. I’ve grown fondness for my lonesomeness but when I get lonely there’s no one to call on. No one there to check in on me on my darkest days. That sucks.

#CheckInWithMe

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I’m new here!

Hi, my name is binxy888. You can call me Binx or Binxy. I've been diagnosed with Epilepsy, Lupus, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Insomnia, Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD. I work as a director of programs at a major insurance company and own another company. I am a single mom of two teens. I spend most my time masking and hiding my conditions from people as most people do not understand chronic illness. It is very lonely and isolating. I am looking for people that are going through similar situations to relate to.

#MightyTogether #AutismSpectrumDisorder #PTSD #Anxiety #Depression #Lupus #Epilepsy

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Feeling crappy and lonely | TW ableism, swearing, suicidal ideation

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I’ve written many posts on this, so I won’t go into detail of each individual thing. I think I hate this city. I feel like not even this city tolerates well to neurodivergent folk/folx like me. No city does. I’ve been threatened, accused, bullied, and misunderstood numerous times (even at a fucking hotel to the point where I had a fucking meltdown), I can no longer trust to go into any hotel now, and I can’t even get fucking disability payment no matter how much I poured my heart out on why I can’t work because the government is too fucking stubborn and ridiculous (and no, I cannot afford a lawyer because I’m not rich). My heart is fucking torn right now just thinking about it. It’s like they want us dead or something. Just for existing.

I hate it here. Am I really just going to be fucking homeless in my future because this damn capitalist society doesn’t give a shit about me? Should I just end it if that’s my future? Because I probably will if I ever have to deal with that shit. I’d rather be dead than sit with the feeling over how this society doesn’t give a fuck about me without a home. There would be no happiness anyway.

(Please refrain from calling me human (I have dysphoria, I’d rather not go into detail right now), please and thank you!)

#MyAutismIsNotADisorder #MyAutismIsNotADisability #AutismSpectrum #Autistic #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #OSTD #OtherSpecifiedTraumaDisorder #neurodivergent #Neurodivergency #Vent #triggerwarning #SuicidalThoughts #SuicidalIdeation #SuicideAttemptSurvivors

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Update/triggered

Just a short post to say I was admitted to the psych ward about two weeks ago.
Its so much tougher than I ever thought.
The hardest part is well everything.

Im grateful that I have enough food to eat. Its just sad seeing other patients faces full of the look like they have had enough of being on the ward too. I think it really is a lonely place to be.
Im glad I have you mighties here beside me.
Thankyou for being there this year and always.
Im struggling mighties.

#Depression #Anxiety #Psychosis

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Loneliness

Some days the loneliness sits quietly with me, and I feel the weight of doing everything on my own. But even in those moments, I remind myself that I am still deserving of love, connection, and people who see my heart. I may feel alone sometimes, but I am not broken I am growing.

#lonelybutstrong #healingjourney #deepfeelings #innerstrength #keepgoing #youarenotalone #emotionaltruth #heartspeak

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