Messages for When You Feel Hopeless

in a world that’s perfectly packaged in black and white, it’s easy to convince ourselves we are either this or that, broken or whole, capable or incapable. there can be great comfort in this cocoon. by doing so though, we prevent the peace of the paradox which allows (and in fact insists on) room for both/and. when we learn to greet the greys, a whole world can open up to us and for us. what colors will you see today? 🖤🤍💖

#ChronicIllness #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #Depression #Anxiety #IfYouFeelHopeless #Grief #MentalHealth #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #Undiagnosed #ChronicPain #Trauma

hi fellow mighties. this is my first post in a new series i created based on my experiences, both life-giving and life-draining, since being struck by a debilitating disease 2 ½ years ago. i’m quite far from being an expert on chronic illness (is anybody ever?) but my life will forever be altered into before and after. let’s just say i am certainly still figuring out after. in the meantime, i hope any sentiments i can share offer some support and solace to others walking the same path. sometimes it just helps to know you’re not alone. sometimes it just helps to know there are others in the same situation who have learned not just to survive but thrive. and sometimes, just sometimes, we can find helping hearts along the way who are willing to weave some love and light into our lives if we find the courage and vulnerability to let them in. feel free to share this with someone who needs to hear it

#ChronicIllness #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Depression #Anxiety #ChronicFatigue #IfYouFeelHopeless #Grief #MentalHealth #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ChronicPain #Undiagnosed

We Are Strong! 💪 💚💯❣️🙌🦋🤯

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My Group, My Friends and Family, All of You:

I Am making my group a one-stop shopper experience

For shoppers for #MentalHealth

There will be great, big, helpful to you in Grand Ways conversations

There will be Real Talk and Real Empowerment And Education and Answers For You

There will be Humor, Connecting, Breathing, Hugs, Music, Friendships…

I Cannot Wait To Meet More Magnificent, Real People That Matter The Most To Me And To So Many Of Us 💯🤩🙌💛🌻☀️

#Mindfulness #Depression #Anxiety #ChronicIllness #ADHD #MightyTogether #IfYouFeelHopeless #BipolarDisorder #Grief #Selfharm #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Fibromyalgia #PTSD #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #Trauma #MadeVisible #ChronicPain

I want to celebrate 🎉 my Mighty Friends that Are Actually, Really—they told me so🙌🙌🙌 Building Something Great and Kicking To The Curb Doubt that keeps wanting to creep into our mindset And Fear that wants to hold us back and control us…

This Day, Your HUGE Transformations, is All Partly Because of the choices I empowered you with that you reached out to me too to guide you in how to use the tools and techniques I teach in my group titled Resilience and Mindfulness that is another body of work of love and friendship of mine that I am also So Proud of!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Here, I am wanting All of us to Cheer for You and You… 💯💪🏆🏆🤩💛💛🙌🙌🙌🙌🎊🎊🎉🎈🎁🪅👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾

I 💛 my new friends and my group and All Mighties soooooooo much!!

Woohoo!!!!!!

And if you are not yet following me on here and if you aren’t participating in my group posts in the important conversations I keep creating for YOU, what are you waiting for?— Call to Action (as we said in my college Marketing degree and my Advertising and Marketing jobs:
Click to join & follow me on The Mighty Now💛🙌💯🦋🤗

I know I am only 1 person and I am only 1 part of this Amazing community and I am grateful for All that we All do Everyday Together.

Who agrees that we all make The Mighty Mightier and the Best Online Community Platform and Social Space Ever?!💯🙌💛💪🤩🦋

#MentalHealth #Mindfulness #MightyTogether #Depression #Anxiety #SocialAnxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #MDD #PersistentDepressiveDisorder #MoodDisorders #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #Selfharm #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #IfYouFeelHopeless #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #ChronicIllness #Disability #ChronicFatigue #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #ChronicPain #Headache #Migraine #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PTSD #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #Trauma #MadeVisible

To help encourage us to remember that we are more than our chronic illness(es) or any diagnosis, and to remember that we Are building friendships right here -

In the spirit of the current, Biggest, Buzz-Worthy, Trending Topic, MOVIES awards show airing Sunday night the Oscars🙌🤩🏆🍿🎥🎬

Let’s use this post all weekend Starting Now And And Into Next Week to connect through the art, power, storytelling, …and your particular views on any film. I will keep it as wide-ranged as that for a fun, varied, connecting conversation back and forth below 👇 in the comments!

#Loneliness #Grief #DistractMe #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #IfYouFeelHopeless #Depression #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #DepressiveDisorders #PersistentDepressiveDisorder #MoodDisorders #MDD #Agoraphobia #MentalHealth #MightyTogether #ADHD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #ChronicIllness #IntellectualDisability #AutismSpectrumDisorder #MyCondition #RareDisease #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #ChronicFatigue #Migraine #Selfharm #Selfcare #Mindfulness #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #PTSD #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #PsoriaticArthritis #Trauma #Cancers #AlopeciaAreata #AuditoryProcessingDisorder #CerebralPalsy #BipolarDisorder #DownSyndrome #Addiction #Lupus #HashimotosThyroiditis #AutoimmuneThyroidDisease #BipolarDepression #HypothyroidismUnderactiveThyroidDisease #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #AutonomicDysfunction #ParkinsonsDisease #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS #EatingDisorders #AnorexiaNervosa #BingeEatingDisorder #Dyspraxia #BrainInjury #MotorDisorders

🙌 Yes!!

Yep, I am Also your confidence booster!
&
Your cheerleader ( 📣 🙃🤭🙌🙌 another fun fact about me - I was the first freshman in my high school to make the Varsity football cheerleading squad And I Also was a cheerleading coach in high school for junior high school kids And I did all of that while also teaching dance and helping to run a dance school in high school too, while also continuing my own dance training daily because my first love since the age of 3 has always been the beautiful art of dance- or like one of my all time favorite Professional dance companies that I paid to see live in NYC was called- “Shaping Sound”.

Yeah, I Really miss those days of Energy.

These days, if I have any energy or let’s say the infrequent but still a huge gift of having more than a little energy, it’s funny in that I can recognize the immense difference in a blink of an eye.

Oh, yeah, and about the badass part of this quote image 👆
Not having energy and still doing all that I do, That is what makes me Badass, is how I look at it- after straightening out my Perspective and Reframing my Headspace.
And honestly without my onset of major depressive disorder at age 34 (I am now 52), I would never have really achieved Becoming Badass! And, I always admired Badass people of all kinds.

Always remember this whole hard thing called life and life transitions requires us to take on new, healthier Perspectives Always, And this is what I learned from the Headspace app is also called “Reframing” (best app in the world, at least when I used it daily in 2017 - 2019)

And I have specific, Large, photo album folders on my phone - 1 titled “Reframing Headspace” from my saved key takeaways from each Headspace course lesson I took (that Of Course I will be sharing with you in my group Resilience and Mindfulness) and I have another specific, Large, photo album folder titled “Perspectives” that Of Course I will be sharing with you in my group titled Resilience and Mindfulness)

To anyone seeing this post outside of my group - here is the direct link Resilience and Mindfulness and Join Us for So Much & because literally Everyone needs to learn both Resilience and Mindfulness (and, I don’t stop there with what goodies I share To Help YOU 😁🙃)

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I hope you all have been having a great new year, and are staying warm and safe. Honestly, I myself have been struggling and I wanted to share what I wrote about my current experiences living with bipolar disorder. I will share more about the other challenges I have been dealing with over the last year that have all combined to feed into my emotional & mental struggles in a future post.

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There is a roulette wheel in my head…

…and sometimes it just won't stop.
The ball keeps spinning, never settling in a slot
I look to my right and see black
To the left I see red yet I’m stuck on the track

I feel like a hamster spinning in his wheel
For hours into the night until I can't feel
My legs should have been tired hours ago
Yet I didn’t notice anything so lost in the flow

I'm trapped on a spinning merry-go-round
Going up and down to the cacophony of sound
My horse hugs the pole, and I can't feel my butt
It doesn't seem to matter as I am stuck in a rut

I'm on a race track speeding round and round
Hurtling at high speed, almost off the ground
As I'm going so fast totally out of control
No brakes, no down shift, just on a crazy roll

I'm in suburbia driving in circles on a roundabout
Yet I can't see the exits and make a turn out
Circling around, my steering wheel is stuck
I speed up, I get dizzy, this is just my luck

It seems in these cycles I’m always alone
I hide, avoid and ignore, never pick up the phone
It is a lonely place yet my history proceeds me
I'm so ashamed to be weak and desperately needy

Then there are the mountains to climb
I hike really fast I'm having a great time
I sprint to the top emboldened & inspired
With unlimited energy when I'm totally wired

Yet what goes up must come down
And I tumble and tumble smack to the ground
There is absolutely nothing left of that energy
Its suddenly pitch black dark  and I can't see

There are poker games near the roulette wheel
I'm a winner, it's destined, I’m a real big deal
Bid big on a pot the chips are all mine
Then I go all in and moments later I find

My hands are empty, I completely lost it all
My savings are gone as I took the fall
I slink out the door can't even afford a ride
Won't call a friend, and break through my pride

The hamster on the wheel has fallen to the ground
Can't get up although I ‘m desperate to be found
Once again on the ground I just can't move
Lost my momentum and fallen out of the groove

The park has way since closed and the merry-go-round is shuttered dark
Yet lying at the foot of my horse
I lay lost without a hint of my spark
I noticed the the paint is cracked & faded
It shows its age, is it all overrated?

My cars battery died in the middle of the track
Under the hood my wiring was way out of whack
Can't start up again as I’m just stuck in place
It looks like its destined I’ll never finish the race

I often wonder when will these cycles ever end
Will I ever find balance or just have to pretend
Like I have for decades… everything is just fine
While I’m shut down, lonely and lost in my mind

I need to embrace support available to me
Ditch the shame & pride so others can see
What's really going on as I struggle inside
It certainly has not helped me to run and hide

Can I accept support, admit when I'm so down
Or I’m high in the clouds lost to be found
I don't need sudden riches, today I ‘ll just survive
I've found the glory & blessing that I'm still alive!

Moshe Mark Adler
21st February 2025

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(the photo is mine - I have been exploring nature photography)

#MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #Bipolar2 #Bipolar1 #BipolarDepression #BipolarDisorder #ADHD #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #Addiction #AddictionRecovery #PTSD #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #SocialAnxiety #Disability #Grief #DistractMe #CheckInWithMe #ParkinsonsDisease #Headache #Migraine #IfYouFeelHopeless #Trauma #COVID19 #InsideTheMighty #MightyTogether