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Looking after ourselves

KO64
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Help Seeking

Hi 

 

I am KO. 

I read a lot. Certainly helps keep over active mind preoccupied.

 

I used to self harm for years. Last year, I finally mustered up some courage to seek help.

 

After couple of months of intensive therapy, which is ongoing, I have been able to stop destructive habit.

 

What has helped along the line is learning how to be self compassionate.

 

I have an underlying mental health condition, so I choose daily to continue treatment. 

I don't read or watch the news anymore - helps keep anxiety at bay! Covid19, has made us more hygienic. 

I am on strong medication. My immediate goal is to start waking up earlier. How does one do that here - any tips for me? ~ thanks for reading ! 

stay healthy folks in this pandemic. 

 

 

 

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Re: Help Seeking

Hi and welcome, @KO64 . Well done on seeking help and being able to stop the self harming. 🙂

 

Regarding waking up earlier, I found I needed a reason to start - like a project I was interested in. At the moment, I like getting online in the mornings on these forums, and it's a reason to get up early, to see how people are doing. But anything you were interested in would do.

 

I hope you enjoy exploring the forums. A handy forum tip is to type @ and click on someone's name you want to reply to in the drop-down box - that means they will get a notificatioon that you're talking to them. You can also type any topic onto the search bar above, to look up threads on that topic.

Re: Help Seeking

@NatureLover 

 

Thank you for the suggestion.

 

I will look into TAFE website. Perhaps I will do Course Online.

 

I will give it a go! During the day I have plenty of activities. 

 

I agree with you, I need a purpose for getting up in the morning.

 

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