So Stressed Out, please help...??
 

Last night I started writing things down and symbols and letters and numbers and words. I'm not sure what it all means! Its making me stressed and on edge because I can't do any working out as I'm at the cat show. Its all so confuzzling. Help?

Sorry I dont know. Maybe it doesnt mean anything? Or perhaps you could try writing again to see if you can get some things off of your chest?

That's a good idea :-) thanks

Do I smell that bad or something? :S Why do I get no (or hardly any) replies to my threads or posts!?!?!?! It makes me more paranoid than I already am and blimey that's a fricking lot... I really need support and I need to scream just sceam so everyone can hear me... I hate my family I'm going through a crap time, please just egnowlagement that you've read my post??? I'm desperate!

Hey, it'll be okay, try and controll the stress you have, deal with one thing at a time for a bit and see how that goes.
As for the writing maybe you could do what control freak said and try writing some more
((Huggs))
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Thank you so much :)) I'm going to do some writing now :))

Lyssie xx *hugs*

Hugs. I have done that before. It might just be your brain processing stuff in a weird way.

Thanks for the reply Olympia :-)
I went to sleep last night before I got the chance to work it all out,
I was so tired and had the crappiest headache!
I've been thinking about the man on the bus when I was 7,
I described him and told my mum about him but she said no one was there
So I said it was a ghost, I still remember him to this day!
It's odd and really baffling me and I can't think straight :-(
I think this is all because I'm uber stressed to be honest...
Dunno............
Lyss xx

Is it possible to trace illnesses back to your childhood??
Like OCD I mean?? I remember I used to do things that were very OCD!
Like when I kissed my teddies I had to make it fair because that one got the last kiss so I'd have to carry on kissing them goodnight untill it was fair over and over again. And 'don't step on the crack or you'll fall and break your back' every day on the way to school and back... and counting every second pavement slab... there was more but it's all coming back to me. It's all stressing me out like I said...
xx

I think it's possible. I have no advice though but I suppose if your uber stressed that wouldn't be helping. *hugs* Hope you can figure it out though, doesn't sound like much fun!

Thanks Snuffles :-) *huggles*

*BUMPAGE*

Sometimes people don't reply because they don't know what the person posting is looking for in their replies. If you are looking for advice, I'd say the only advice that any of us can give is to go talk to a professional about it. None of us can tell you if you had OCD as a child or what is causing your symptoms now because we don't know your full medical history and we aren't experts.

If what you're looking for is sympathy and understanding, that we can give. I do understand having issues in your past which worry you. I used to worry that I was psychotic when I was about 12 because I had some odd beliefs, but at the end of the day, unless my doctor or therapist decide it's something worth exploring, obsessing over it is pointless. It's in the past now. If you think it's related to what you're going through today then by all means bring it up with whoever is treating you, but otherwise, you kinda have to let some of that stuff go.

I've never told a mental health professional about the odd 'beliefs' I once had because I believe that I was trying to escape from reality as a coping strategy and it has no relation to how I am today. I don't believe I was psychotic. So I've let it go.

I'm not asking questions or asking you to be my psychiatrists stand in for the day I just want support like anyone else on RYL, I completely understand that you guys can't answer certain questions...

Sorry I wasn't able to reply to everyones threads lately my mum had majour surgery yesterday and I'm kinda all over the place.

Sorry... maybe I shouldn't come on here for a few days, I just need to chill out.

hey MacKitty

Is there any possibility you were just doodling? I know you're stressed-- when I'm stressed I can't focus and I start to scribble on paper-- until I can't see any white spots on the paper.

Just take a deep breath...inhale......exhale. Go listen to some nice music and relaaaxxxx. Sometimes, when we are stressed, we need to forget about what we are going bonkers over and give our "only-human" brain a bit of a break. If you are worried about all the numbers and symbols, maybe its something about your mind trying to tell you something, but just didn't quite get the message out right. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Inhale...exhale...smile.

**hugs**