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[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I keep waking in the night every night. Everything is depressing and scary. It feels like Iโ€™m living in a different world to my normal one.

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Due to sods law my irl people are also busy and less available to talk to just now.

Going through photos and they just donโ€™t seem as plentiful as they once did. (A lot are ruined too by a messy background, identifying information or I didnโ€™t take especially good photos.) Those are all there will ever be of her now :(

I need to back these up somewhere off my phone and the cloud especially with Apple bringing in age verification or it could randomly decide there was something inappropriate and lock my account. Iโ€™m just feeling overwhelmed. Thereโ€™s quite a lot of data backup I need to do, should have done years ago, but I canโ€™t seem to get organised. And it sets off my anxiety so badly I canโ€™t finish. Iโ€™ll have to find time and ask for help.

I donโ€™t feel capable of doing anything right now. Things will get worse as reality sets in but people will have moved on while Iโ€™m still in it.

Melbcat was a constant support who was there no matter what and kept me going through other losses/the general shittiness of life as well as being deeply loved in her own right so this isnโ€™t even a shadow of how bad Iโ€™m going to feel. I pick her ashes up Tuesday. Autumn and winter are kind of looming.

The chances of going off a mental health cliff at some point are high.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so many hugs

Can you look far into the future and see a happy life?

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure. I think I might pursue some grief counselling but there's a few other structural things that really need to change for that.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Hello Chef, have some lunch. Apologies for no ramp. grazing plate