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If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.
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Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist
Feeling a bit low right now. My emotional mind is telling me I'm useless and im stupid. I almost self harmed but my partner stopped me.
meh. i played video games all night and found i can't focus on ac4 very well, and i haven't gotten very far, despite owning it for two years. it's the same with all of my other favorite games. used to be i could sit there for hours and beat the entire thing in one sitting, and now, i can barely sit still for more than ten minutes at a time before wanting to do something else. i guess i just need an immersive game that has a different story line than the same old tropes thrown together. i liked assassin's creed (and then the ending of ac3 happened) because it felt different, i like characters who are morally ambiguous, who are close to jumping off the slippery slope, i like it when characters have conflicted feelings about what they're doing, the "by any means necessary." and that's just not a very popular thing.
I only played the first one. Now there's so many of them that I don't even want to bother. Some of my friends got AC Unity, played it for an hour and quit it. I'm not going to even try.
I got Alien Isolation a few days ago, cheap. I'm surprised how good it is. It's very taxing, I can only play it for so long before I have to stop, but there's so much detail and love toward the first Alien movie - which is of course the best of those movies by far.
I need some more prayers. For some reason I got it into my heads at night that Christianity is dying and that more and more people are leaving the church--and somehow, that means me as well. I have to just get it in my head that these fellow Christians are my friends and that they won't leave me and Jesus will not let them be snatched away. And that includes me.
meh. i played video games all night and found i can't focus on ac4 very well, and i haven't gotten very far, despite owning it for two years. it's the same with all of my other favorite games. used to be i could sit there for hours and beat the entire thing in one sitting, and now, i can barely sit still for more than ten minutes at a time before wanting to do something else. i guess i just need an immersive game that has a different story line than the same old tropes thrown together. i liked assassin's creed (and then the ending of ac3 happened) because it felt different, i like characters who are morally ambiguous, who are close to jumping off the slippery slope, i like it when characters have conflicted feelings about what they're doing, the "by any means necessary." and that's just not a very popular thing.
Yes that happened to me as well. 20 years ago I bought all the new games and played often to well into the night. I used to keep my computer on the latest models just to be able to play the new games that were coming out. When I got sick I lost all interest in gaming and only just this year am I recovering a little from that. I've installed all my old games - and even bought a brand new game - x-plane - a flight simulator with the whole world as playing field - the games is 80 gigabytes in size, the biggest game I've ever bought. I ordered it from America, so I'll will have to wait another 3 weeks or so before it arrives, in the meantime I'm flying around on the demo. I last between 10 minutes to about half a hour. Only when the grand kids come do I play for a few hours in a row as they love watching me play and I keep on going even though I have had enough of it for their sake. We're playing Broken Age right now, and the grand kids love it. 3 of them are coming tomorrow for a sleep over and all they can talk about is the computer game awaiting them. Cute
It's the worst, to be honest. One of the games really helped when I was friendless and trying to learn to accept myself as I am, and one of the messages in the game is, "you have a right to live from the moment you're born" and that just really held on since my first time playing it when it was localized here and I've played it multiple times since then and beaten it, and now, I just can't sit through it. And I still love the game so, so much. The same with the AC series and everything else, but I can't sit through them for very long before giving up because I can't get immersed.
X-Plane sounds like it's a lot of fun and laid back! Is it? 80 gigabytes is a lot! Even the Civ 5 game doesn't up that much (and there's a lot to it, and my computer can barely handle the graphics as it. It's 8 gigabytes according to the Steam Store).
Oh that's so cute! I hope you guys have fun! I've heard of Broken Age, I think Steam recommended it to me after I added Ori and the Blind Forest to my wishlist.
I haven't seen the Alien movie and this is the first time I've heard of Alien Isolation.
We yapped about Christ working in our hearts when we confess our sins and shortcomings to Him and had a very interesting discussion about that, how when we die to sin we are freed from its power.
blessings to all
If Christianity dies as a religion then that would be a good thing and not a bad one. I believe that faith in Jesus sets us free but that Christianity as a religion captivates believers in Christ and drinks their life blood.
Faith in Christ sets us free brother, if I was you I hold onto Christ and the truth of the bible but let go of organised religion, it only causes confusion and hardships and doesn't love the Spirit of Jesus nor our neighbours.
It is the truth of Jesus that sets us free.
the ambien isn't working and i want to cry.
edit: screw this gender. i can't keep going through this. i hurt too much i can never sleep around this time and doctors push meds like it's candy and ignore when their patiences say they know what they need. so i'm glad planned parenthood exists! in two months, i will be free from this nefarious hell and constant pain and ups and downs and dysphoria and the cancer will be gone too.
I have observed that there is a subtle kind of organized religion which masquerades itself as being free from religious boundaries, yet its not free at all. It rejects commandments found in the New Testament because it lives in fear of them. It boasts of being free from fear as well, but is actually snared by fear.
Friends please celebrate with me! I woke up at 5 am this morning - which means I slept close to 7 1/2 hours last night - a first in a long time. The lack of sleep was really starting to get to me so I'm happy I got one night of good sleep, lets hope I get a few more in time to come.
Have a great day
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X-Plane sounds like it's a lot of fun and laid back! Is it? 80 gigabytes is a lot! Even the Civ 5 game doesn't up that much (and there's a lot to it, and my computer can barely handle the graphics as it. It's 8 gigabytes according to the Steam Store).
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