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Hi Thanks very much for your reply! My family don't really address emotions but they're supportive in other areas - finances and security. That's a positive. But I think I have to accept that if I'm going to continue living at home. I think my anxiety is normal and I just had a bad day.

Yes, I agree. Sometimes just knowing that someone else will listen is enough. Topazwriter, you seem to have a lot of common with a lot of people these days. That is a good point about being happy in the morning and before bed - so you think you are basically a happy person. That is good.

This will be wierd but you feel familiar...

I don't feel that living at home is the entire equation.

There's, I think anyway, a saying...it's gonna sound bad, but utilize the challenge/enemy, against itself. In this case, the one within or that which your current circumstances have placed you.

So IF you are at home, and for a time NEED to be, even if there is financial support and a roof over your head - yes, those are things, deffinately, especially these days to be appreciative of!

But that doesn't mean that's the end of the story. Nothing is EVER the end of ANY story, no matter how much you may feel or something outside of yourself, makes you feel that it is.


You start saving...

Like myself, mine is with excersizing. I have a terrible back thingy. So I make myself get on a stepper, just 60 sec. No more, even if I want to.

The next day...I will allow myself 2 minutes....- NO MORE>

With savings, empowerment to feel and see/experience a different way of life, can start with a penny.

Find one, pick it up and start the jar there ((huggs))

You guys give very good advice! Thanks! Yeah, I just had a bad day, which are few and far between these days. But yeah I am active (gym, dance and boxing classes). As far as jars go, I got one for coins and another for happy thoughts. That's something I started at the beginning of the year and it is full now. I just write a good thing that happened on a piece of paper and put it in. I did the happy thoughts jar thing instead of New Year Resolutions cause I know the jar will act like a reminder of good stuff. And I think my story atm is familiar because I'm living that moment in every adult's life where they're about to leave the bird's nest. My current situation won't last forever. Personally, I have grown to love change (good ones that is, lol!)

No real stress today, which is a great, great thing.

Here's an article from CNN on how important positive thinking is in being able to solve problems -

positive thinking and problem solving

Build a mindset of "I can figure this out!"

Mild stress these days, because a few important things are in transition and there are some unknowns that go along with it.

A bit high today...Sunday...at work trying to get paperwork completed for budget deadline, but then again...I do go on vacation at the end of the week after Thursday's deadline so...it's all relative :-)

I was quite stressed earlier in the week, with a number of projects all coming due at the same time. But they all resolved nicely, and stress is reducing!

Low stress today. It is nice.