I know with this illness it can be difficult to find inner happiness. So how do you all find peace? I find the less I go outside the happier I am. But then I feel bad because I feel like I am missing out on life.
Just some food for thought.
Sorry if I am clogging up the board with posts, I just don’t have a frequent net connection.
I’m more at peace with myself than I was when I was young. Back then I had this kind of desperate feeling that life was passing me by. I felt denied of a lot of the best things in life. I don’t feel that now. Right now I content myself with the simpler pleasures. Hunger is the best spice.
Right now I am not at peace with myself.
I calculate my surroundings like im neo from the matrix. I express myself with honesty and am generous when i can be. Attacks in the form of words go right pass me. I know people project so it doesn’t phase me.
Yes. 
@crimby, I’m almost to the point where you’re at. A lot of my friends who’ve got great degrees and got married are going through divorces and other really bad things.
@anon84763962 Awesome! Happy to hear that.
@crsaen It’s nice to read that you’re aware of your surroundings.
I will never be at peace with myself. But I am more sort of muted and calm then when I was young. I am resigned to live in this body on this planet and I don’t fight it as much. I guess I’m tired.
Sometimes…115151515
Myself? Yes. My idiot neighbour? Not so much.
Right now I am. Not so sure what tomorrow brings.
I identify with your 1st few sentences. I’m at pretty much at peace about lost life experiences. However not these 2:
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Maybe I have some considering to do. .
Day to day…I like that.
You know…sometimes sitting out in the grass under a blue sky with the sun shining and good people to talk to, yes I am, to the extent that I was today told that I am a “social butterfly” to which I said “I am anything but” but then this is not the first time I’ve heard this…I’ve heard it more than a few times and believe me it’s one of the last things that I am. I suppose this is when I am at peace with self despite it being against all odds.
I’ve known peace with self, I guess I just had to come to terms with this, be able to find this within myself to cope with certain situations. I’ve also been known to completely lose touch with self, that’s probably more how I’ve been known the past ten years. I’ve also been told it’s contagious, like I explained what I was going through and was told, that’s exactly how I feel now. But these days, am I at peace? No. I believe in peace all the way. Sometimes I yearn for perpetual peace as in some sort of oblivion or rather a making peace and moving on, not saying I’m goin there, but I do sometimes go there.
Sometimes I guess, sometimes.
That’s a good question on which to reflect. Yes, I am at peace with myself. I’m not bragging, it’s taken me years of effort to attain inner peace. And certainly, there are moments when the peace isn’t as substantial. How did I reach it? Daily meditative prayer, keeping inner silence, spiritual study, working through all my unfinished business, studying psychology, and engaging in creative pursuits. Ah, I sometimes watched comedies (old sitcoms from the 1970s, a British comedy called ‘Harold and Paul’, etc.) because I sometimes get too serious and humor softens my experience of reality.
Most importantly, the reason I have inner peace is because of good symptom management. In previous years when my symptoms controlled me, I was definitely not at peace. I’m very thankful for it all, and this forum was/is one of the main reasons I am doing so well.
On sunny days i feel much better. Music, art etc. I dont have inner peace at all. Hopefully now with therapy.