Posted by baobabble on July 01, 2008 at 15:42:20:In Reply to: Re: Feeling desperate posted by herman on July 01, 2008 at 06:12:44:
i am in a slump, a big one. During non-slump times I typically have at least one mini-slump a day. I think it's because of the fractured sleep cycle. I don't get the restorative sleep that refreshes one emotionally. Otherwise the strategies you suggest seem useful for keeping grounded. I am surely guilty of spending an inordinate time in my head. My fantasies are often waking nightmares. Not hallucinations but not easily distinguishable from the external reality. And I find that I have very strong emotional reactions to these fantasies. I often feel very silly when I realize that I was getting carried away and experiencing all of those negative emotions just because of the stuff I had conjured up in my own mind. Most often I am fantasizing about why people act the way they do towards me. This is very dangerous because it leads me to isolate myself in order to avoid having material for my fantasies. i've often wondered if Narcoleptics are more prone to this kind of behavior because of mismanagement of REM sleep- vivid imaginings of bad things happening. So vivid that emotionally we can't really tell the difference.
- Re: Feeling desperate herman 05:40 7/02/08 (0)