tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559753239246026395.post4059708780412590597..comments2024-03-19T00:14:55.992-04:00Comments on The Happy Radish: Hurry Up and WaitCaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957920877842979647noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559753239246026395.post-18877333079496341892011-06-23T07:45:15.938-04:002011-06-23T07:45:15.938-04:00Cait, you are an amazing writer. It truly speaks ...Cait, you are an <i>amazing</i> writer. It truly speaks to your thoughtfulness, clarity of mind, and strength that you're able to write about gut-wrenching situations with such eloquence and grace.<br /><br />Despite the bipolar, despite everything else, your own voice is so strong here. So apparent. <i>You</i> are not lost, despite whatever is swirling around in your head and making you dizzy. <i>You</i> are still very much there.<br /><br />As cliche as it sounds, please keep writing. Write out every feeling you have, even if you don't think you can find the words. Take these thoughts and feelings that are swirling around inside you, pluck one out of the tornado, and consider it. Force yourself to think about it and concentrate on it. And then write about it. And imagine that with every tap of your keys on the keyboard, you're releasing that bad thought or feeling, bit by bit.<br /><br />I know I'm babbling now. But the best advice my old therapist ever gave me (when I was at the height of anxiety attacks, and my mind never stopped swirling) was to calm myself down one thought or feeling at a time. Take it, consider it, acknowledge it, and then let it go. Write or talk or scream it out of me. Say, "I recognize you are here, Feeling, but right now I'm going to put you aside." And then release it.<br /><br />Cait, you know you're never far from my thoughts. Please also know that I'm sending you all the love and light in the universe, hoping that you're somehow able to ease down from this high slowly and carefully. That you're able to float gently down instead of dropping.<br /><br />I love you. And even when the universe tries its best to destroy you, hang onto that. Hang onto the gift we've been given in our friendship. It's stronger than any demon.<br /><br />xoxo<br />h.b.The Nannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840319949362558089noreply@blogger.com