Similar to you it sounds.

Then I look at all of the unfinished projects and feel overwhelmed/stressed lol. But today is a new day and I can try again 😊

Amazing work!!

I know this is difficult to answer but after 18 years with depression and anxiety what did you find some of the most helpful aspects of the professional help you got?

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Zen is everywhere. But not everyone recognize it. What we have inside, we find outside.

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What do you do?

So amazing thank you for sharing

Yessss!!

Same but I’m not happy about it. Feels like my job is getting the best of me rather than the people I love.

I don’t think that plants going to grow much taller

Dude I’m sure you have your reasons as to why you’re not keeping your wife’s schedule but I bet they’re not good ones. Try to get on the same schedule as her. Your marriage will thank you and you’ll be happier.

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You could get a space heater for your workshop!

Things I do to pass the time are puzzles, building model kits, legos, origami/paper crafts, painting, reading (comics lately), crossword puzzles and sudoku, working out, or playing piano. It was my goal last year to spend less time on screens so this is what I’ve been up to!

Me too. Sometimes it's important to take a break and just take in the present moment and look at how far you came along in your journey of self-healing.

Actually, kinda more depressing than motivational. You're still trapped by circumstances beyond your control and the more you grow the more constricting it becomes. Better to remain stunted and have plenty of room to stretch out.

Are you telling me to feel sorry for sperm?

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Oh man.. I so needed this this morning. Thank you, OP, for posting this & thank you, everyone else, for introducing me to the subs I had no idea existed.

Aspire to be a sewer weed! Get motivated!

What a great endorsement for prison.

Yep, the best mountain climb I've ever done I had 5m vision at the top and it was basically worthless, but I'll always remember it because of the experiences and friend (singular in this case) I made along the way, and the downclimb in the middle of a storm which was hell at the time but now one of my fondest memories. It's all about the experience and what you take from it

Looks like a sunflower

Don’t lean into the examples you used? Why? They’re only valid when it serves your viewpoint? Will you then choose another example that isn’t a tragedy of life like a lion eating you. So we don’t get trapped in fantasy.

And then I’ll ask you: Did anyone that suffered from that difficulty ever moved passed it, or built a positive life afterward?

Do you agree with this? - Despite a tragic event in life you can aim at and do positive things, things a friend would recommend you to do. But sometimes people choose another path, a path that instead of promoting their potential diminishes it. (drugs/alcoholism/or any other harmful action).

This is what I mean, a constructive path that leads to well-being vs a path that takes you further from it.

This is the point I am trying to make. I’m not saying that a fatality can’t destroy a life.

I think it's mostly because of 2 things:

- I am aware that I'm currently at my prime, so now's the best time to take advantage of life by living it to the fullest (doesn't mean just having dumb fun, it means just that, give 100% if not more);

- Other people are going fast too. If I relax too much, I'm gonna be left behind and be seen as odd and weird (my non-existent love life is an example of that).

Is it silly? Absolutely. Does it make me feel pressure nonetheless? Yes, because the things I'm anxious about rely on others, and I can't trust others to be on the same page as I am.