Call me alice, never said it here but that's my name. Djkhalis is an idiotic pun on djkhaled 🤦‍♀️

XD

(I'm Bryan, but Kenoi's fine if preferred.)

I have seen that ted talk yes! :)

So insightful, isn't it? :D The way she relates her experiences, it just makes sense. We gotta listen to our brain and body! Only that way can we find balance and recover. ^_^

Have you read any oliver sacks books? I've read them before really understanding that I have mild hallucinations, but provided me a field of curiosities rather than distress when came up to realising it.

I must say I have not... :o (Though I have heard of them!)

That sounds great! :D It's so important to have/find the right resource for discovering ourselves -- people don't generally realise how vital this is, that we find the right way to really understanding what we're going through, what our body is going through.

I'm so glad to hear that you've found it! :) To anyone else reading this who hasn't yet, keep searching, keep watching/listening/reading in accepting (non-ableist) circles, keep looking. The right, intuitive information is out there, just buried under tons of other crap that's no use.

Just as a reference, I've also got severe chronic depression and general/social anxiety. Idk, just if it comes in handy in any discussions.

Ditto. The same. :) On the road to recovery from severe chronical depression, and still dealiing with general/social anxiety -- both diagnosed.

I've only experienced a hallicunation once, though -- and it was of the smell type (I smelled something that wasn't really there), during my greatest physchological stress and severe autistic burnout.

Call me alice, never said it here but that's my name. Djkhalis is an idiotic pun on djkhaled 🤦‍♀️

XD

(I'm Bryan, but Kenoi's fine if preferred.)

I have seen that ted talk yes! :)

So insightful, isn't it? :D The way she relates her experiences, it just makes sense. We gotta listen to our brain and body! Only that way can we find balance and recover. ^_^

Have you read any oliver sacks books? I've read them before really understanding that I have mild hallucinations, but provided me a field of curiosities rather than distress when came up to realising it.

I must say I have not... :o (Though I have heard of them!)

That sounds great! :D It's so important to have/find the right resource for discovering ourselves -- people don't generally realise how vital this is, that we find the right way to really understanding what we're going through, what our body is going through.

I'm so glad to hear that you've found it! :) To anyone else reading this who hasn't yet, keep searching, keep watching/listening/reading in accepting (non-ableist) circles, keep looking. The right, intuitive information is out there, just buried under tons of other crap that's no use.

Just as a reference, I've also got severe chronic depression and general/social anxiety. Idk, just if it comes in handy in any discussions.

Ditto. The same. :) On the road to recovery from severe chronical depression, and still dealiing with general/social anxiety -- both diagnosed.

I've only experienced a hallicunation once, though -- and it was of the smell type (I smelled something that wasn't really there) -- during my greatest phychological stress and severe autistic burnout.

Call me alice, never said it here but that's my name. Djkhalis is an idiotic pun on djkhaled 🤦‍♀️

XD

(I'm Bryan, but Kenoi's fine if preferred.)

I have seen that ted talk yes! :)

So insightful, isn't it? :D The way she relates her experiences, it just makes sense. We gotta listen to our brain and body! Only that way can we find balance and recover. ^_^

Have you read any oliver sacks books? I've read them before really understanding that I have mild hallucinations, but provided me a field of curiosities rather than distress when came up to realising it.

I must say I have not... :o (Though I have heard of them!)

That sounds great! :D It's so important to have/find the right resource for discovering ourselves -- people don't generally realise how vital this is, that we find the right way to really understanding what we're going through, what our body is going through.

I'm so glad to hear that you've found it! :) To anyone else reading this who hasn't yet, keep searching, keep watching/listening/reading in accepting (non-ableist) circles, keep looking. The right, intuitive information is out there, just buried under tons of other crap that's no use.

Just as a reference, I've also got severe chronic depression and general/social anxiety. Idk, just if it comes in handy in any discussions.

Ditto. The same. :) On the road to recovery from severe chronical depression, and still dealing with general/social anxiety -- both diagnosed.

I've only experienced a hallicunation once, though -- and it was of the smell type (I smelled something that wasn't really there) -- during my greatest phychological stress and severe autistic burnout.

I'm also diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but all that helped with was a therapy referral, which I was lucky with because I loved my counsellor. Also meds, although the anxiety ones don't do much. They're basically a high blood pressure meds but lower concentration 🤷‍♀️

From personal experience, I can tell you that meditation (quiet time for your mind, and in nature), balanced eating, outdoor exercise, and a low stress lifestyle can do so much more than any medication can.

I actually don't use medications as a long-term solution. I know that some people do, but personally I've found that unsustainable (both in terms of health and in terms of spending).

For me, medications are good for jolting thing back if things really start to spin out of control, but in my recovery I am trying to make sure that that doesn't happen. So I'm actually aiming away from medications -- if that makes sense.

A truly balanced lifestyle is what leads to good health in the long run.

Don't mind me asking and don't answer if you're not comfortable, but what do you do as a career?

Hahhaha! Currently? Nothing. :P

My private company collapsed when I was going through my most severe autistic burnout, and I lost everything: money, career, company, health, family -- all of it!

It's a time of my life I don't care to revisit. I am now on temporary jobless government support, and slowly looking to build my life again from scratch.

I used to work for a university, in the technical, web department. I am also a writer and an anthroposophist by SI/passion, and have an interest in languages -- that's probably what you're picking up here. ^_^

I'm also diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but all that helped with was a therapy referral, which I was lucky with because I loved my counsellor. Also meds, although the anxiety ones don't do much. They're basically a high blood pressure meds but lower concentration 🤷‍♀️

From personal experience, I can tell you that meditation (quiet time for your mind, and in nature), balanced eating, outdoor exercise, and a low stress lifestyle can do so much more than any medication can.

I actually don't use medications as a long-term solution. I know that some people do, but personally I've found that unsustainable (both in terms of health and in terms of spending).

For me, medications are good for jolting thing back if things really start to spin out of control, but in my recovery I am trying to make sure that that doesn't happen. So I'm actually aiming away from medications -- if that makes sense.

A truly balanced lifestyle is what leads to good health in the long run.

Don't mind me asking and don't answer if you're not comfortable, but what do you do as a career?

Hahhaha! Currently? Nothing. >.< :P

My private company collapsed when I was going through my most severe autistic burnout, and I lost everything: money, career, company, health, family -- all of it!

It's a time of my life I don't care to revisit. I am now on temporary jobless government support, and slowly looking to build my life again from scratch.

I used to work for a university, in the technical, web department. I am also a writer and an anthroposophist by SI/passion, and have an interest in languages -- that's probably what you're picking up here. ^_^

I'm also diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but all that helped with was a therapy referral, which I was lucky with because I loved my counsellor. Also meds, although the anxiety ones don't do much. They're basically a high blood pressure meds but lower concentration 🤷‍♀️

From personal experience, I can tell you that meditation (quiet time for your mind, and in nature), balanced eating, outdoor exercise, and a low stress lifestyle can do so much more than any medication can.

I actually don't use medications as a long-term solution. I know that some people do, but personally I've found that unsustainable (both in terms of health and in terms of spending).

For me, medications are good for jolting thing back if things really start to spin out of control, but in my recovery I am trying to make sure that that doesn't happen. So I'm actually aiming away from medications -- if that makes sense.

A truly balanced lifestyle is what leads to good health in the long run.

Don't mind me asking and don't answer if you're not comfortable, but what do you do as a career?

Hahhaha! Currently? Nothing. >.< :P

My private company collapsed when I was going through my most severe autistic burnout, and I lost everything: money, career, company, health, family -- all of it!

That happened 4 years ago. It's a time of my life I don't care to revisit... I am now on temporary jobless government support, and slowly looking to build my life again from scratch.

I used to work for a university, in the technical, web department. I am also a writer and an anthroposophist by SI/passion, and have an interest in languages -- that's probably what you're picking up here. ^_^

I'm also diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but all that helped with was a therapy referral, which I was lucky with because I loved my counsellor. Also meds, although the anxiety ones don't do much. They're basically a high blood pressure meds but lower concentration 🤷‍♀️

From personal experience, I can tell you that meditation (quiet time for your mind, and in nature), balanced eating, outdoor exercise, and a low stress lifestyle can do so much more than any medication can.

I actually don't use medications as a long-term solution. I know that some people do, but personally I've found that unsustainable (both in terms of health and in terms of spending).

For me, medications are good for jolting thing back if things really start to spin out of control, but in my recovery I am trying to make sure that that doesn't happen. So I'm actually aiming away from medications -- if that makes sense.

Carefully listening to your body, and a truly balanced lifestyle is what leads to good health in the long run.

Don't mind me asking and don't answer if you're not comfortable, but what do you do as a career?

Hahhaha! Currently? Nothing. >.< :P

My private company collapsed when I was going through my most severe autistic burnout, and I lost everything: money, career, company, health, family -- all of it!

That happened 4 years ago. It's a time of my life I don't care to revisit... I am now on temporary jobless government support, and slowly looking to build my life again from scratch.

I used to work for a university, in the technical, web department. I am also a writer and an anthroposophist by SI/passion, and have an interest in languages -- that's probably what you're picking up here. ^_^

I'm also diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but all that helped with was a therapy referral, which I was lucky with because I loved my counsellor. Also meds, although the anxiety ones don't do much. They're basically a high blood pressure meds but lower concentration 🤷‍♀️

From personal experience, I can tell you that meditation (quiet time for your mind, and in nature), balanced eating, keeping well hydrated, outdoor exercise, and a low stress lifestyle can do so much more than any medication can.

I actually don't use medications as a long-term solution. I know that some people do, but personally I've found that unsustainable (both in terms of health and in terms of spending).

For me, medications are good for jolting thing back if things really start to spin out of control, but in my recovery I am trying to make sure that that doesn't happen. So I'm actually aiming away from medications -- if that makes sense.

Carefully listening to your body, and a truly balanced lifestyle is what leads to good health in the long run.

Don't mind me asking and don't answer if you're not comfortable, but what do you do as a career?

Hahhaha! Currently? Nothing. >.< :P

My private company collapsed when I was going through my most severe autistic burnout, and I lost everything: money, career, company, health, family -- all of it!

That happened 4 years ago. It's a time of my life I don't care to revisit... I am now on temporary jobless government support, and slowly looking to build my life again from scratch.

I used to work for a university, in the technical, web department. I am also a writer and an anthroposophist by SI/passion, and have an interest in languages -- that's probably what you're picking up here. ^_^

I've had a glimpse of it after therapy, it was wonderful, I can't wait to get there again 😌

Easy. ^_^ It takes time. Nature's natural cycle (recovery) is not as fast-moving as human society. It works at its own pace.

Only by realising and respecting that did I get to this point in my recovery. In a way that acceptance is the recovery -- that nature has its own rules, its own pace, and that imbalanced human society has little understanding of this.

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Regarding to your career -- you really seem to have gone through so much!! At the same time, you also seemed to have accomplished a lot as well so congrats on that!

Thank you... Indeed... 'Been through a lot... Sometimes I think way too much for a lifetime... I've been through some very, VERY dark times -- moments that very few people have lived through in this world... But I guess I'm living proof that it is possible to make it through if you learn to accept and listen to your body, to respect nature, and to give things due time (to be patient, working on your healing whenever you can).

It's not easy, but if you learn to work with nature, not against her, it's not unrewarding either. There is joy, comfort, and peace to be found, and life's cycle goes on. There is actually purpose to be found in that natural cycle, in being a part of that larger miracle that humankind still knows so little about.

For example, that trees can both feel and talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOqeyPIVRo

Yes!! Absolutely! You have the right idea! :D

That kind of exactly what it is. Everything feeds life and has a working balance, it all works together. It is almost like a theoretical/metaphysical pool from which all life stems and to where all life goes when individual life ends.

Have you seen any of Miyazaki's films?

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It might be a far reach but oh well, worth a shot. I kind of "see" the life in, well, everything that's alive, coming from a "pool". Like every animal or plant is a manifestation of that life force, then it disintegrates, goes back in the pool, mixes up and arises again. Like a volcano that's boiling, but instead of big ouchie lava-blobs, you'd have plants and insects and humans and cats and any lifeform you could think of come out of it. I hope it makes any sense hahah but that's how I make sense of it all. I was jusy curious if it resounded in any way with you too

The concept surrounding that "circle of life" is not all too wrong in that the living balance is maintained between the different living creatures in exactly such a way:

Fungi and bacteria create life for plants, which provide life to animals, which provide life to other animals, which provide life to fungi and bacteria (when their life ends), and the cycle repeats. Except that it isn't as simple as a single cycle -- there are many such endless loops, as long as nature's balance stays intact and life is allowed to flourish.

In all this, the individual is not actually all that important as the living balance -- this is the part that gets most people, because we are taught an ego-centric view from a young age. The individual is important, but not more important than all of life, the living balance.

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Made me so happy I could tear up hahah!! It means so much to me to share this feeling/view with somebody else. Oh and yes I jave seen his films:) not all of them, I'm sure

Yes!! Absolutely! You have the right idea! :D

That's kind of exactly what it is. Everything feeds life and has a working balance, it all works together. It is almost like a theoretical/metaphysical pool from which all life stems and to where all life goes when individual life ends.

Have you seen any of Miyazaki's films?