i have very little patience with myself. the past few days have been especially crappy as i messed up in paying a bill with the wrong check book. i have just been in such a crazy distress. is it fixable today? yes. but it's not me to mess up with something like this and so i am seeing just another screw up that seem to come and go.

marge, send what ever you can spare over to me. the patience would truly help me calm down and see that i am entitled to make an honest mistake even though in my other life, i don't normally do that. i pray and hope and all that stuff that this will go away somehow. it is so damaging to me to sink into a bad place where i see my self as possibly permanently screwed.

i want to feel how you're feeling -= maybe once i take care of this issue, it will lift away and stop repressing my sense of self! cross your fingers for me!!

I have a birth defect, GERD(which is acting up at the moment), Fibromyalgia(have had it for over 30 years), and just found out Friday that I have severe degenerative disease in my ENTIRE spine. The doctor that I saw won't give me anything for the intense constant pain. :-( My mind is so fog bound and numb.

How do I have patience, and compassion too, with myself? I remember that sometimes in our lives we get to the point that we live moment to moment, when you can do that take it to minute by minute, then hour to hour, half a day, a day at a time. When you stumble go back to moment by moment.

Remember also when you are frustrated to just BREATHE! Take a deep one and then another until you can bring yourself into some small bit of peace and everything will become easier.

You CAN do this and ;-) nothing is permanently screwed. Sending you both a hug :-)

I am working on my patience.I have been having "brain fog" that I really believe is part of my daily migraine.

So,I am forgetful.My brother and I talked about this a long time ago.He says how many times he'll be going to do something and have to retrace his steps to figure it out.

I think alot of people do this thr out thier life,but get more sensitive to it as we get older.I remember being pregnant with my second child.It was the morning and I had just poured my 3yr old cereal.

It was too dry,so I reached in,got the milk and poured it.My daughter couldn't believe I had just poured o.j. on her cereal.What had happened,my husband had o.j. and put it in front of the milk.

I cried my eyes out.Of course I was emotional,but this many years later,I remember that.

When you can,treat yourself to something.Do something nice for yourself.Maybe you could give yourself something as a gift to say I'm sorry,to yourself.

Sounds crazy,but we say we're sorry to others.We forgive others.We do nice things for others.Why not yourself.

You deserve it.Tell yourself that.

I can get in a space where I'm so aggrivated that suddely one thing after another goes wrong.I had that the other night.I just said to myself enough,go sit down.Start again tomorrow.

We tend to be so hard on ourselves.

Especially if you've got health issues on top of everything.

I will be sending good thoughts your way.

Thanks so much for that.And it is true.Many,many days I have to take moment by moment.

Last week I started having panic attacks again,really bad.I was just doing things around the house,a wave of emotions hit me.The panic is just so overwhelming.

That's when I said,even tho I do certain things,I have to practice my coping skills.

This morning I just came up with thought for the day.What did I need to work on,and the first thing that came to me was patience.

And you are right,Breathe.I have often stopped when I'm upset and found I would kind of hold my breath for periods of time.

Thanks for the hugs,sending some your way.

I too am having a high pain day. I've been lucky lately and haven't had one in a while...you always hope that you're better and maybe you've healed, but it doesn't seem to work that way.

Patience is a good thing to hold on to. I know that I can wait this out...but like being in labor, you just want it to be over with.

I'm not allowed pain meds either, I think if I can just get through another couple of hours, things should improve.

Keep breathing, Guys. I think we're going to pull through.

Never thought of GERD as a birth defect before. LOL!! But that really explains everything with my stomach and creates quite the epiphany! I can remember back to the second grade when, because Coca-Cola was the only think that seemed to settle my stomach, I had to keep a doctor prescribed bottle of Coca-Cola syrup with me all the time at school.

Now if Medicare and Medicaid would just go back to paying for it...

reading these comments I could only think of one thing