Let's have a party!!!

[gingerschnapps]

It's the time of year when moods are crashing.  The days are short, the weather is miserable, Wintermas looms on the horizon with all its stresses, frustrations, and problems.  At the suggestion of the lovelystaranise , it's time to have a [mental health] Downswing Party!!!

By which I mean, come on over and:

• complain. go ahead. let it all out. anon comments are screened if you'd prefer other people don't read it (tho if you want me to know who YOU are, signing is good) I won't tell, I won't think you're pathetic, I won't think at you "other people have real problems and you don't". Promise. Also, I will only unscreen YOUR comment if you tell me it's cool. Otherwise, your secret is safe with me.
   
• yell at your mood disorder of choice - MDD, Bipolar, PTSD, anxiety, whatever - anything that's currently fucking you up. The world, maybe. Or your meds! While there is a community for that, it can be fun to do it some more.
   
• post funny cartoons, macros and pictures of cute kittens, great stories you found, instances of people not sucking, hilarious gifs and other things (if it's nsfw, put it behind a link and note it and follow charitable warning systems - we're not here to make people feel WORSE after all).
   
• talk about things that make you happy, no matter how much you swear other people don't care about them.
   
• ask other people who might be reading about other stuff.
  
  There's metaphorical tea, although I cannot recommend highly enough making yourself a cup of tea/coffee/tisane/hot chocolate/hot milk/whatever as a calming, soothing exercise. I'd turn on some music, except I do not know how to make a playlist show up in your computer. ANYWAY.
  
  The only rules are EVERYONE PLAY NICE. If you DEFINITELY don't want any unsolicited internet advice, just stick "NO ADVICE" in your subject line. Even if someone doesn't have that, please offer advice politely, as a suggestion, and with the assumption that the person you are talking to is an intelligent human being. I would like to reemphasize this. Don't phrase it "you should look into X". Phrase it as "have you looked into X?"
  
  Ready? GO.

(points shamelessly borrowed fromrecessional )

Comments

[kore]

Wow, major sympathies from me re the partner's work time because my husband has to be at his job at SIX, which means he leaves at five-thirty and gets up at four-thirty, and I often wake up when he does and then it fucks up my whole day. (At least I don't have to drive him anywhere, that sucks even worse!)

[megpie71]

The driving my partner to the station is actually the best thing for both of us - we have one car between the two of us, so if he drives himself, the car sits at the station all day and I'm stuck with public transport. Plus there aren't really enough parking spaces in the available car parks near the train station nearest us unless he's basically out there catching the first train of the day at approximately 4.30am. Of the two of us, I'm the voluntary early riser, and the one who actually functions in the mornings (if he's functioning even vaguely normally at 7am, it's a sign he's either been up all night, or replaced by a pod-person) so driving him isn't a hassle unless the local drivers are being more bone-headed than usual. It's just the whole "re-arrange the routine to fit around changed circumstances" thing which bugs me.