Finding your Self. It sounds... so Sixties. What's up with this?

Today, as I write this, it is 2006. I look around and see many people hurting. Friends. Students. People I meet on the street or in stores. People for whom life hurts. Every day is difficult. They are sad and they have been for quite some time. They ache inside. Sometimes they are very afraid, so afraid their stomaches ache and they literally cannot see far. Sometimes they can do nothing but sit and hold their arms around themselves. Sometimes they walk through a day and nothing touches them. Sometimes they smile and laugh but they have empty spaces inside that are untouched by this. Those empty spaces really hurt. Or they should, if there's anything left to feel "hurt".

They try things, but nothing feels like it works. People get worried around them. Or maybe there is no one around them to GET worried. Just that little voice inside that says things aren't right.

Sometimes they go to their doctors and ask for help. And sometimes they get pills to help. Something to make the day brighter. Something to make the anxiety less. Something to sleep.

And the pills do make the day brighter. (Sort of. At least they make you smile, but you feel a little frantic and friends look at you funny. Sometimes you smile at the wrong things now.)

The pills make the anxiety less. (Well, at least it's just around the edges. You can get things done. You just can't put your finger on it, but you know you're still fretting. Sometimes you wake up feeling that way. And you know something's missing. You just can't see the holes now.)

The pills do make you sleep. (That they do. But you read the information on them and they're addictive. And you wonder if you'll be able to sleep without them. Ever. Again.)

You could be one of these people. I was once one of these people.

These pages are about what I did that worked.

These are from me to you. By what authority? I am not a set of degrees or given professions. If you want me to have a profession here, it's "fellow human". If you really insist, it's a Good Samaritan action. That's all.

Note: I'm still working on these topics. I wrote one page. Then I left it for a bit and then I found it again. And I want to put it up so people might find it. I am still going to do more. I have some topics listed I want to write on.

• Focus On The Road
  This is a page on how to do something when you are doing nothing. When you are stuck. Right. There. And you can't imagine how to even start moving.
  
  
• (not done yet)Do-able Units
  This is a page on how to do break things up into bits you can do. This is when you know you have to do something, or want to do something, but it's HUGE. It's way too big to start. So you don't start it. For years sometimes. This is how to start doing something that's too big right now.
  
  
• (not done yet)Sleeping
  This is a page on how to sleep when you are having trouble.
  
  
• (not done yet)Putting It Away
  This is a page on how to put away, TEMPORARILY, things you are fretting about, or angry about, or whatever about. Because you can't always do that fretting anger whatevering Right Now. Sometimes you have to put it aside so you can do something else.

Last Modified: 11 March 2008

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