Today you read about how one person balances their daily life with recovering from PPD. This can be very difficult to do, but it is important in order to recover. For today's journal activity, write about some of the specific problems in your everyday life that may be preventing you from recovering. After that write down some ideas about how to stop letting this aspect create more stress and anxiety in your life, thus causing more symptoms!
1. Constantly wanting sympathy is only leading to reassuring my subconscious that something is wrong – when someone messages or asks how are you? and I rant that I still have chronic pain every day – I’m saying I have pain every day that is not helpful, there is no need to lie but I could perhaps try to reframe maybe just answer with something real but positive. I slept well last night or well I went for a run yesterday morning that was great – I don’t know it just seems saying or writing something positive about my health and life would help to reassure my subconscious that I am indeed well, My new daily affirmation is; I’m strong, I’m well, I’m not in danger. So perhaps I should try to reiterate this in messages and when I speak to others instead of banging on about my symptoms !! their sympathy or them knowing I am in pain is not going to get me out of pain, in fact they probably don’t really care – not that their not nice but they are probably more concerned regarding their own ‘problems’ which to me always feel ridiculous but that’s because I am so fucking wrapped up in myself of late.
2. My mum she is a constant cause of stress and guilt – I love her and want to be kind to her but she goes against nearly everything I believe in; she is racists even thought she says she’s not – classic – she is a believer in the patriarchy even though she thinks she a feminist and I believe she may even be homophobic – I can not excuse these behaviours and thoughts and I will not – however she has always in her own way been kind to me ( in fact dad is also the same) and they are always there for me if needed in a way they believe is helpful but it is so difficult to love people when there beliefs are so fucking different to your own – how can I do something about this to reduced the anxiety around the subject ?
1. Constantly wanting sympathy is only leading to reassuring my subconscious that something is wrong – when someone messages or asks how are you? and I rant that I still have chronic pain every day – I’m saying I have pain every day that is not helpful, there is no need to lie but I could perhaps try to reframe maybe just answer with something real but positive. I slept well last night or well I went for a run yesterday morning that was great – I don’t know it just seems saying or writing something positive about my health and life would help to reassure my subconscious that I am indeed well, My new daily affirmation is; I’m strong, I’m well, I’m not in danger. So perhaps I should try to reiterate this in messages and when I speak to others instead of banging on about my symptoms !! their sympathy or them knowing I am in pain is not going to get me out of pain, in fact they probably don’t really care – not that their not nice but they are probably more concerned regarding their own ‘problems’ which to me always feel ridiculous but that’s because I am so fucking wrapped up in myself of late.
2. My mum she is a constant cause of stress and guilt – I love her and want to be kind to her but she goes against nearly everything I believe in; she is racists even thought she says she’s not – classic – she is a believer in the patriarchy even though she thinks she a feminist and I believe she may even be homophobic – I can not excuse these behaviours and thoughts and I will not – however she has always in her own way been kind to me ( in fact dad is also the same) and they are always there for me if needed in a way they believe is helpful but it is so difficult to love people when there beliefs are so fucking different to your own – how can I do something about this to reduced the anxiety around the subject ?
Keep it up!