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02 Sep 2018 10:44 PM
02 Sep 2018 10:44 PM
💓 @Former-Member .......
03 Sep 2018 02:31 PM
03 Sep 2018 02:31 PM
@Former-Member
Sometimes feelings just flood through us.
03 Sep 2018 03:54 PM
03 Sep 2018 03:54 PM
03 Sep 2018 04:00 PM
03 Sep 2018 04:00 PM
03 Sep 2018 04:07 PM
03 Sep 2018 04:07 PM
Yes - we made it @Former-Member
It has been a harsh winter - really hard on everyone and it seems you have some really ouchy bits here and there -
bad back
sore shoulder
touchey toe
sore shoulder
I think I got 'em all here - you really do have sore spots right now - no wonder with all the work you have been doing
You must be on the home stretch now
Still thinking of you - and today the weather in Melbourne is G L O R I O U S
Keep going sis - I understand angry - too much work and all those sore spots - I know - just saying
Dec
03 Sep 2018 04:42 PM
03 Sep 2018 07:57 PM
03 Sep 2018 07:57 PM
@Owlunar Your pics are me atm ...2 days outside in garden and I am a mess.
wish it was funny but its still at OUCH. Oh well. early night huh.
03 Sep 2018 09:21 PM
03 Sep 2018 09:21 PM
That's really rough @Appleblossom
I wish it was funny - but it's not alas
But I do tend to laugh when I am in pain - not when I am alone but when the nurses are trying to help me after knee operations - it seems to help
I dunno - but my jokes improve as I continue - I can get a whole room full of people giggling and asking me how I can do this when I am in so much pain
But - yeah - not funny really - but I would rather tell jokes than cry
weird - yeah
Dec
05 Sep 2018 10:37 AM
05 Sep 2018 10:37 AM
@Owlunar My grandfather was like that and always laughing with the nurses.
I have been consciously trying to develop my humour muscle.
It helps in many ways, but also its not easy for me to sense the right social level or vibe with it ...its so easy to be misunderstood.
... a work in progress ... but my rule is that I have to see the funny side .. and only be the butt if I feel like it.
05 Sep 2018 11:29 AM
05 Sep 2018 11:29 AM
I don't know if anyone can develop a sense of humour - it's something one has or doesn't have and there are degrees of humour - and types of humour
Humour is one of the hardest subjects to describe - I did satire at university - I got my only HD with that subject and got the highest mark of the class - but how does one define humour? I know it was a theoretical subject - I read everyone from Freud to the present day - or rather back in the 80s about humour - but where does it come from
When I was doing my first HSC exam - English - our tutor told the class not to try and be funny except for me - I can just do it and I have no idea how
But I do know that when I used to do stand-up comedy I relied on the audience - if they didn't laugh - back luck - I would thank them and not go on with my routine - other times I would have a fantastic audience and go on over time and no one complained
They were great occasions
But it comes done to being the butt of the joke a lot of the time - and wise about being polically correct - it's okay to be left-footed about some subjects but not others
How does one explain this - I really don't know - as I said - humour is really hard to define
Sorry about that Apple - I can't actually tell anyone what's funny and why - but one of my domestic helpers - wonderful person - but I can't tell her a joke - she doesn't get it
Dec
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