The Right Medicine
Oct. 16th, 2024 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootI am aware of difficulties outside my own, some close to me facing mental health issues, Anxiety, Depression, along with life changes that are painful and unavoidable, it's all out there.
My own mood is not so terrible. On some level I feel the distinct presence of a brightness. This may be hope or hubris but something really is OK. Yes I get down moods but it's not like the big D. I've had that in the past, there's a palpable difference. In the greater scheme of things I'm going to be just fine.
Others are not and I don't know how to help them.
My most trusted method of dealing with solid emotional issues is to go away somewhere, refresh, make a plan if needed, dump appropriately if there is nowt else to be done. It's not always successful but it's worth trying.
But that's because basically I am a bird. Many people can't be doing with such stuff. They need a rolling level of sympathy with suggestions coming in late on the back of long chats and comfortable silences. I can give people beer and ice-cream in Summer, whisky and fireside in Winter, listen if they want to talk, stick them in front of the TV/PC as comforts them. But in the end I tend to be about solutions and while that's great, it's not always The Right Medicine. It would be good to learn how to spot who needs what and when.
My own mood is not so terrible. On some level I feel the distinct presence of a brightness. This may be hope or hubris but something really is OK. Yes I get down moods but it's not like the big D. I've had that in the past, there's a palpable difference. In the greater scheme of things I'm going to be just fine.
Others are not and I don't know how to help them.
My most trusted method of dealing with solid emotional issues is to go away somewhere, refresh, make a plan if needed, dump appropriately if there is nowt else to be done. It's not always successful but it's worth trying.
But that's because basically I am a bird. Many people can't be doing with such stuff. They need a rolling level of sympathy with suggestions coming in late on the back of long chats and comfortable silences. I can give people beer and ice-cream in Summer, whisky and fireside in Winter, listen if they want to talk, stick them in front of the TV/PC as comforts them. But in the end I tend to be about solutions and while that's great, it's not always The Right Medicine. It would be good to learn how to spot who needs what and when.
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