Posted on 09/21/2017 8:39:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Torre DeRoche, 37, had always lived in dread, fearing everything from random sinkholes to global catastrophe.
Then a series of terrible things actually did happen: DeRoches father died of metastasized colon cancer in 2014, and her longtime boyfriend broke up with her at the height of her grief just months after she published a memoir of the couples happy relationship.
The devastating experiences only deepened her anxiety.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Keep walking.
Good Morning with a smile! TY
“Torre DeRoche, 37, had always lived in dread...and her longtime boyfriend broke up with her.”
Probably would have been better off having a family than shacking up as someone’s cow.
...forgot to mention that my med intake is close to zero after turning to aroma-therapy with essential oils. 100% pure all natural....way it should be. and they smell awesome.
PROVERBS 17:22: A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.
ISAIAH 61:3: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
She needs Jesus and doesn’t realize it.
A 30 minute walk 5 days a week should do the trick for anyone....
“Pretty snarky comment for no reason imho”
I was a lot younger than her when I lost my father——it happens.
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True...but exercise in walking gets the brain matter going...anxiety starts in the brain....daily 1/2 hour walk is just good maintenance...
Oh, there's a reason.
The resilience of the average young American has decreased greatly in recent years.
Every defeat is a soul-crushing blow, it seems.
A neckbeard falling off his long skateboard is equivalent to your home burning down in today's adolescent economy.
Whatever you do, stay away from yoga.
Apparently it is a direct route to Satan’s foyer, I read yesterday on FR.
Walking and drinking beer:
You’re doing it RIGHT.
Live long enough and you realize that, yes, it can get worse so don’t ever say “it can’t get any worse than this.”
It might not be the essential oils, it might be the conscious, relaxed breathing. Breathing exercises can be very effective for controlling anxiety. Sounds odd but it does work. Had a couple of tough years myself and it helped me. Prayer is the most beneficial thing, though.
My key to relaxation is smoking pot and jumping on a trampoline, with a beer.
I don’t actually hold the beer while I bounce - I made a beer holder and nailed to an adjacent tree just within reach over the net.
Really, I wish Buddha had known about this; it would have saved him a lot of time and effort.
Not too long back, I read an article about a woman who did this by herself, but on a bike. I find stories like this fascinating and appealing, tbh.
I'm not sure why all the hate on the thread for the woman. Jealousy? She was suffering from some anxiety for whatever reason. It sounds like a good portion of her life. Plenty of people do, me included. For some people it can't be readily explained. For some, it may have roots in deeper issues. And for others it might be chemical.
And I don't care how she financially afforded it or not. It was something healthy that she did that seemed to work for her. Not drugs. Not alcohol. And she wasn't hurting anyone. I'm happy for her.
Here's the story about the bicyclist from 2016:
Juliana Buhring: How cycling round the world saved me
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/15/juliana-buhring-how-cycling-round-the-world-saved-me
Also there was this post from a thread I posted in 2012...
To: beaversmom
Then there was Fred A. Birchmore who in 1928 or so left South Carolina hitchhiking on a freighter bound for Europe with his trusty one-speed bicycle he named Bucephalus. While peddling around Europe, he stopped off in Switzerland at the small town of Zermatt. Admiring the local scenery, he decided to do a but of mountain climbing. When he reached the top of the mountain he chose, he found a watch at the top. Figuring someone had lost it, he climbed down and went to a local gasthaus where he inquired after the owner. The tavern keeper was familiar with the owner and refused to believe how he had come-by the watch, since the owner was the first person ever to climb - with all the latest climbing tech and guides - the Matterhorn. Fred A. Birchmore climbed the mountain with only his bare hands ... The rest of his adventures on his 25,000 mile bike ride are recounted in Around the World on a Bicycle With Camera Snapshots by Author by Fred A. Birchmore 1939. Unfortunately the only copy on Amazon goes for $150. Perhaps someone will find a copy in a local library as I did. Heres my review on Amazon: This book should be required reading for all mountain bike owners and those who like to climb. Here is a man who road his one-speed bike 25,000 miles, peddled up the Himalayas with only ONE peddle, was the second person to climb the Matterhorn and the first to do so bare handed. He went around the world on his bike, hitching a ride home on a freighter from Indochina to California and peddled the rest of the way back to his home on the East Coast. After peddling up the Himalayas, the Rocky Mountains were not a challenge and the Appalachians just bumps in the road home. An amazing adventure by an unassuming man, who thought that what he was doing was just ordinary. Where this book reprinted I would buy it in a heart beat. Perhaps some local library will have a copy.
13 posted on 12/10/2012, 7:23:38 AM by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
This thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2967278/posts
Perhaps you’d find empathy for another who may have been dealt the same hand as you. Just a thought
I don’t disagree, I just find it odd to judge one that we don’t know the whole story.
Maybe you’re only speaking of the ones you read about in the news, I have a couple and know many young people who aren’t even remotely close to the morons who make headlines
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