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I had an anxiety attack on Saturday that essentially wrecked me for the next 2 day. Now I have to go get a few cavities filled and I fucking hate needles so guess who's back? Anxiety! I'm bringing my earbuds and a stim toy with me so hoping I don't turn too much into a 42 year old baby.
The group I've been organizing with started their breakfast program this week. Yesterday not a single kiddo showed up.
I'm checking with them now and I guess this morning 4 kids showed up. We reached out to a local community leader and he spread the word a bit. I really wanna see this program take off! It's a first step towards our Food Co-op. We still need to get the website live because people are talking about it.
I'm gonna get my food handler license done probably Friday so I can start helping directly. I want to put as much effort into this as I can because if we start getting enough money from the Co-op, I get to be the first paid employee and that's gonna be substantially more rewarding than driving a delivery van for Amazon.
Hugs for the anxiety comrade
dental work is not easy. I was in the same boat a couple years ago and I told the dentist that I was borderline panicking and they gave me gas/extra numbing to make sure I couldn't feel anything and were overall sympathetic. Hopefully it goes quick and they're professional about it.
Yay on the progress with your program! Sounds like you're really making a difference to those around you. That's so great to hear that you'll get your food license soon, too. Hopefully it'll all work out in your favor sooner than later. We're rooting for you!
I survived! I mostly freak about the needles and then after that it's pretty smooth. When I was a kid, my family dentist was a glorified horse doctor that hated kids. That's probably where the fear comes from. The one I go to now is actually pretty good. They waited until I was fully numb before drilling. I was offered gas but declined because it was $100 extra for it.
If this food co-op does take off, we have a few other plans in the works. But I wanna see the co-op take off before the year is over. I think things are about to move fast and we are gonna need to focus on this first though.
Yay! Glad it went smoothly and it's over with. I believe in you and that you can get it done in time. Seems like you've had great momentum this year for it
Another hug for the anxiety
I just wanna add that I am so impressed that you're doing so much to actually help. Keep up the good work but also keep up the good rest, your anxiety needs the breaks as much as you do.
Thanks comrade!
Last Friday at our meeting, I had even mentioned that 2 of our comrades are starting go go into burnout and was vulnerable enough to share part of my autism diagnosis journey where I realized I was in severe autistic burnout for like half a decade. After I realized that, I took like 3 months of of life and re-calibrated. Now I take a mental health day once every other week or so to just chill and do low impact chores or watch movies. The group is working on ways that we can take the load of of them a bit and give them time to rest. We got a long way to go with this and can't afford to get beaten down this early.
I think my anxiety is a bit more under control and the depression is a dull roar right now. I do always check in with myself too.
I'm proud of you for sharing your journey openly with your comrades. It's one thing to tell us on hexbear, but another to do it in person. It's impressive and I admire you for it.
It also sounds like your group is more understanding of anxiety & burnout in general, which should make it easier for all of you to take care of/accomodate each other. Keep taking those mental health days, all of you, and I'm sure you're gonna reach more and more people.