Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought an "almost new" house because it's "safer" ...

I'm a loon, that has to live with 100 irrational fears and phobias every day that prevent me doing perfectly normal things .... and a lot of what I can do still makes me anxious. I'm even anxious having a bath Petrifies me ..... as for showering *shudders* ... petrified!

Is there such a thing as phobiaphobia? (Fear of phobias.)

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is there such a thing as phobiaphobia? (Fear of phobias.)

Yes!

It's phobophobia!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobophobia

Loanranger

PN, a niece has had counselling for her catastrophising, AKA, severe anxiety and it really helped her to overcome things which prevented her from living her life. Just a thought that may help.

silvercar

Loanranger wrote: »

PN, a niece has had counselling for her catastrophising, AKA, severe anxiety and it really helped her to overcome things which prevented her from living her life. Just a thought that may help.

Can't imagine PN doing counselling.

Doozergirl

Loanranger wrote: »

PN, a niece has had counselling for her catastrophising, AKA, severe anxiety and it really helped her to overcome things which prevented her from living her life. Just a thought that may help.

Anxiety is very capable of making your world very small indeed.

It doesn't happen overnight. It just whittles away at the the little things you are prepared to do. Gradually more and more becomes a risk instead of an ordinary thing to do. And then you have a very small life.

There's no doubt in my mind, PN, that you would benefit hugely from a proper consulatation with the doctor and a referral for CBT, counselling or one of many other mental health treatments available. But you have to go and ask.

It is not your identity. It would help to read about anxiety etc. I read an awful lot about four years ago and started to see what was wrong. The first book I read was 'healing with freud or prozac' and I think that was the one that saw me recognise that it wasn't just 'me', it was a problem with my mental health and wellbeing.

I had a fabulous counsellor who took me through solutions, not just 'listening'.

The best thing I did was a five day course. It cost quite a bit but I very quickly made more than it cost as a direct result of going and being better.

Life is amazing without listening to the little voice in my head that wants to sabotage my happiness. We all have one. Some people believe theirs more than others.

Pyxis

((((((((Doozergirl))))))))

michaels

Has anyone ever seen the wimbledon courts looking so poor? Looks like dried mud at the baselines - or is it just having hd tv?

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen the wimbledon courts looking so poor? Looks like dried mud at the baselines - or is it just having hd tv?

I think it's the camera angles and the perspective. Those areas get the most wear. If you actually stood there, I'm sure there would be grass, but it'd be more worn than on the rest of the court.

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

I think it's the camera angles and the perspective. Those areas get the most wear. If you actually stood there, I'm sure there would be grass, but it'd be more worn than on the rest of the court.

I'm sure it is - but it just looks worse this year than most according to my admittedly aging memory.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen the wimbledon courts looking so poor? Looks like dried mud at the baselines - or is it just having hd tv?

I'd be happy if one of my two back lawns looked that good :mad:

It was the mossiest one (excluding the even mossier half that I dug up) and it's taking ages to get some new growth on it. If I don't have any joy it's getting dug up and restarted from new - or gravelled over

The other back one seems much better. I gave it a spiking yesterday so that should improve it further.

The front lawn has all sorts of "stuff" in it other than grass but it does look reasonably tidy so I think I'll leave well alone - for now, eventually it may come up to have hard standing grids installed to give me another parking space, but the grids will have grass in them when that's done so it'll still look like a lawn.