The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[Langers]

You all look knackered!

 

[Freddeno]

We were..we played 3 vs 3 and my team started out best but ended last, 3rd...winners had to stay on the pitch and play against next team..we won the first four, literally thought i would die..

 

[Paul]

No you're correct. Never flown anywhere. But only because of quarantine laws.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Thanks to anyone else I missed too!

Well done Lincs!

Cheers buddy

Congratulations. It must have made all the hard work worth it in the end.

Indeed, many thanks for the wishes, I know we've clashed a couple of times, will try to play nicer.

Congrats to ddw & lincs.

Lincs, what did you study?

Thanks. I studied Social Policy and Criminology, my postings on CA ought to have given that away!

Well done to Lincs.

Some clever buggers on here isn't there

Ahh stop it

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I suppose it sounds really hollow in the face of a) Ikeme's news and b) others on here actually achieving tangible stuff, but I've just run through a Mon-Fri as good as I've had in at least 15 years. Probably more. It's gone well personally, it's gone well professionally but most importantly it's gone well mentally. Not one hour of trouble. Let alone days of it, which it normally is. Common sense dictates this won't last - I have a condition, I understand what it is, I can get through the bad times because I've been through the worst and I have an awesome support network. But just to be able to stand up for a week and not need anyone's help, it's pretty mindblowing for me. I know it's only five days, I could wake up tomorrow and feel like shit, blahdeblahdeblah. I'm well aware of that. I won't ever be free of this. Never. Pills for the rest of my life, constantly having to watch what I do.

Sounds stupid, I know. It's not like I regularly walk around threatening to cut my wrists. But that's not what I have is all about. I'm just happy that I've had five consecutive days of it not bothering me at all. If I can put together runs of having five days like that then it'll improve my life immeasurably, I struggle with five hours sometimes. This is why it's such an alien feeling.

Anyway, wittering on, again. As you were.

 

[darlowolf64]

I suppose it sounds really hollow in the face of a) Ikeme's news and b) others on here actually achieving tangible stuff, but I've just run through a Mon-Fri as good as I've had in at least 15 years. Probably more. It's gone well personally, it's gone well professionally but most importantly it's gone well mentally. Not one hour of trouble. Let alone days of it, which it normally is. Common sense dictates this won't last - I have a condition, I understand what it is, I can get through the bad times because I've been through the worst and I have an awesome support network. But just to be able to stand up for a week and not need anyone's help, it's pretty mindblowing for me. I know it's only five days, I could wake up tomorrow and feel like $#@!, blahdeblahdeblah. I'm well aware of that. I won't ever be free of this. Never. Pills for the rest of my life, constantly having to watch what I do.

Sounds stupid, I know. It's not like I regularly walk around threatening to cut my wrists. But that's not what I have is all about. I'm just happy that I've had five consecutive days of it not bothering me at all. If I can put together runs of having five days like that then it'll improve my life immeasurably, I struggle with five hours sometimes. This is why it's such an alien feeling.

Anyway, wittering on, again. As you were.

Great to hear Dan, well done and keep going mate, you are doing yourself proud! I'm looking forward to a beer and a catch up at the Leicester game if you are still available

 

[Derby Wolf]

I suppose it sounds really hollow in the face of a) Ikeme's news and b) others on here actually achieving tangible stuff, but I've just run through a Mon-Fri as good as I've had in at least 15 years. Probably more. It's gone well personally, it's gone well professionally but most importantly it's gone well mentally. Not one hour of trouble. Let alone days of it, which it normally is. Common sense dictates this won't last - I have a condition, I understand what it is, I can get through the bad times because I've been through the worst and I have an awesome support network. But just to be able to stand up for a week and not need anyone's help, it's pretty mindblowing for me. I know it's only five days, I could wake up tomorrow and feel like shit, blahdeblahdeblah. I'm well aware of that. I won't ever be free of this. Never. Pills for the rest of my life, constantly having to watch what I do.

Sounds stupid, I know. It's not like I regularly walk around threatening to cut my wrists. But that's not what I have is all about. I'm just happy that I've had five consecutive days of it not bothering me at all. If I can put together runs of having five days like that then it'll improve my life immeasurably, I struggle with five hours sometimes. This is why it's such an alien feeling.

Anyway, wittering on, again. As you were.

This is excellent news I think it's important you/people in general don't dismiss these little victories. It's something to cling onto if/when the fog descends again that you can get through it. You've got this.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

I've been through so much crap and so many lows and have been told often enough by enough people (who can't all be lying just to be nice) to know that I've made (and continue to make) serious progress. I can never be complacent with it, it just surprises me greatly when I put together a run like that because it never happens. Doesn't really matter about circumstances - although everything is, touch wood, progressing ok - there doesn't have to be a trigger to feeling shit. It's not really about external stuff, it's just a condition that flares up a lot and I can only try to control rather than eradicate it.

I'm still ashamed of what I did and what I became when things were really bad, because being ill can't be an all-encompassing excuse, but I know I've done my best to work my way back so far.

 

[Freddeno]

That sounds super Dan

 

[Alan]

Put in my two weeks at my dead end coffee shop job and gearing up to go back to school. Absolutely thrilled and ready to finally grow up.

 

[b3h]

Going to Uni?

 

[Freddeno]

Put in my two weeks at my dead end coffee shop job and gearing up to go back to school. Absolutely thrilled and ready to finally grow up.

What will you study?

 

[Alan]

Going to Uni?

Back to it, yeah.

I'm going for computer science with a technical certificate in software programming.

 

[Wolvensam]

I suppose it sounds really hollow in the face of a) Ikeme's news and b) others on here actually achieving tangible stuff, but I've just run through a Mon-Fri as good as I've had in at least 15 years. Probably more. It's gone well personally, it's gone well professionally but most importantly it's gone well mentally. Not one hour of trouble. Let alone days of it, which it normally is. Common sense dictates this won't last - I have a condition, I understand what it is, I can get through the bad times because I've been through the worst and I have an awesome support network. But just to be able to stand up for a week and not need anyone's help, it's pretty mindblowing for me. I know it's only five days, I could wake up tomorrow and feel like shit, blahdeblahdeblah. I'm well aware of that. I won't ever be free of this. Never. Pills for the rest of my life, constantly having to watch what I do.

Sounds stupid, I know. It's not like I regularly walk around threatening to cut my wrists. But that's not what I have is all about. I'm just happy that I've had five consecutive days of it not bothering me at all. If I can put together runs of having five days like that then it'll improve my life immeasurably, I struggle with five hours sometimes. This is why it's such an alien feeling.

Anyway, wittering on, again. As you were.

Excellent news Dan and very glad to hear it. The first week always feels the sweetest!

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Excellent news Dan and very glad to hear it. The first week always feels the sweetest!

I totally agree. Well done Dan.

 

[PPB]

The Pittsburgh Penguins new Assistant Coach......Mark Recchi!!

Exciting times and what a cracking looking bench for the upcoming season!

 

[Parkins left foot]

Good day out in Salisbury - chauffeured there and back courtesy of South West Trains, free shopping with reward vouchers & lunch at the Ox Row with a couple of pints overlooking the market square watching the world go by.

I do like being retired

 

[PPB]

I'm absolute shit at this 'Shotglass nearest the edge of the table ' game :drink2:

 

[Paul]

Good day out in Salisbury - chauffeured there and back courtesy of South West Trains, free shopping with reward vouchers & lunch at the Ox Row with a couple of pints overlooking the market square watching the world go by.

I do like being retired

Some of us had to go to work, keep rubbing it in old man

 

[Parkins left foot]

Some of us had to go to work, keep rubbing it in old man

Happy to oblige - did 48 yrs at work before I got to do this