It happens every so often.
How do you guys not go bananas when you think of the future?
When it happens I buy a lottery ticket. Not the best coping strategy.
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Answer - I have a lottery ticket in my pocket right now for tonights draw
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I try not to go there, but I know what you mean. I try to remind myself that what I do now, affects the outcome of my future for better or worse, and just try to do my best in the Here and Now. For me, that might be doing some light exercise everyday, going for walks and especially trying to stay in touch with people. It makes it easier to bear everything
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Wellā¦it helps to think itās the same for everyone. All who have lived before us and all who are coming to be will have a limited time on this earth, and we all have different circumstances, many of witch we donāt have any say in, like having a mental disorder. Do your best according to the circumstances that surrond you and be at peace.
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I just try to think about God, medication, and having my current support system, and staying out of trouble. Being a good-decent person and then maybe making a little money some day and getting a full-time/part time job and taking/improving my physical and mental well-being and health. I also want to learn computer science and computer programming, but that feels impossible.
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Iām pretty much living ānowā I donāt think about the past too much, but Iāve got to a little bit when I try to remember something Iāve learned or whatever, but thinking about the future I donāt really do unless Iāve got some appointments or something planned that I canāt forget.
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When I think about the future I get out the crystal ball and i gaze into its Wonder which is really nothing at all only thing that I can tell is the reflection on the glass some old grey-haired man living in the past whereās my ticket
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I stress about the future too. Iām starting to realize Iām unable to fully care for myself. What will I do if my husband dies? I plan to go to a group home, but Iām worried violent people will be there. It really scares me.
I also worry about my daughter who has crippling depression and anxiety. Sheās 21, struggling to get through college, and she isnāt able to work. She refuses to apply for benefits. What will she be doing in the future? It scares me to think about
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the thought of ending up alone and unloved with hard cold people that think they are superior to me trying to boss me about is a bit of a worry.
ending up in a group home could be bad.
i dont know how i would handle loosing my loved one if she dies before me because she is the only one who calls me and she genuinly loves me but rest of family do not but instead have hierarchy beliefs where i am lowest and they are superior to me they think with hate and arrogance.
they do not love me really and look down at me and treat me badly such as my sister and nephew and them think they are superior and treat me badly and do not love me and do not wish me well and do not think i deserve good things.
i hope noone tries dominating me to eat meat or worse seafood.
seafood makes me vomit and it is all against my morals.
i hope to be vegan for the rest of my life.
i hope there will always be beautiful vegan food for me to eat.
hope climate change does not kill us all or make our lives horrible.
hope we change and take care of world, environment, animals and species.
i am not fully independent.
i need assistance with some things.
my loved one empowers me but if my sister or others were to ācare for meā they would supress me because they do now.
they would ruin me.
i am unable to exercise lately so i worry i wont be able to exercise.
i worry how i will cope with loss of loved ones but i believe in miraculous eternal relationships and love so that helps.
where i live now i am surrounded by family who do not love me or care for me much and supress me in their hierarchy beliefs such as sister n nephew but there is one woman who genuinly loves me but if i lose her i will be in the claws of the ones who do not wish me well and who want power of me and put me down instead of empower me.
there is the fear of going psychotic again and what if all hospitals are full and no help available.
i really live day by day.
dieing could be horrible too and i hope i get to die peacefully and in my sleep and with medication and sleeping medication and someone who loves me and i love holding my hand and my pet.
i do not worry about the future often but these things are a bit of a worry .
i hope i never get hopeless again.
i was hopeless as a child and it was overwhelming and i could not cope.
somehow i got hope back.
i believe in miracles and sacred eternal loving happy relationships and environment and souls and species etc
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I go bananas thinking about the future. I often think of myself like āfuturelessā or maybe āpurposelessā
Iām just floating here and there in life, reducing pain is my only concern.
I think buying a lottery ticket is a good idea, i sometimes do it myself, of course you donāt win but you can fantasize, dream, for a while.
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Try to live in the moment
Tomorrow is not garrenteed
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I donāt live in the past or future. What do I live in then?
You gotta live in the present.
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My neighbour buys us lottery tickets and gives them to us every week. we won $3 once.
I tend not to fixate on the future or the past. Iāve learned to live in the present and be content. Thinking about all the bad things that have happened in the past will only make me depressed and worrying about all the things that could go wrong in the future only brings anxiety.
That doesnāt mean I havenāt learned from the past or plan for the future, Iāve just learned not to fixate on it.
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I do go bananas thinking about the future, but only a little bit bananas. I find it is present or recent events that get me down the most. No one knows for sure what the future will be.
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try to forgive others @everhopeful
no point in holding grudes
you will feel better if you do
peace be with you
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