It’s Christmas time now and I’m so overwhelmed and overworked. Like I feel like I have no time for myself anymore I’m soooo busy. And my friends who have been friends since they were 5 stopped being friends recently and I’m like freaking out bc I’m like idk what to do for Christmas all my friends are asking me and I’m like idfk! Like I’m just so done with everything! It’s so much! Like I’m so sick of school everyday I go and it’s just boring. I’m so happy for Christmas break and I finally get to slow down. But I also feel like I don’t know how to slow down and I wanna be constantly doing things but buy doing that I’m overworking myself. I’m also like barely eating which I know isn’t good at all but I just don’t when the motivation to. Like every time I go to eat I feel guilty about it and stop eating and then when I do eat a bunch of junk I don’t eat like anything the next two days. And Ik I shouldn’t starve myself but like idk what to do I’m so Fing stressed and I just can’t deal with it! I know I should be happy because it’s Christmas! I have a concert coming up! Yay! But like I can’t stop thinking about everything wrong! Like my brain won’t stop. It’s just constant like I can’t deal with this anymore. It’s si much I’m also trying hard in school while worrying about everything else and trying to clean my house so we can sell it and don’t go broke because we only have one income for 3 of us and like idk how to do it any more. There more to this as well but it might be against guidelines so I won’t say it.

You should check out some homeopathic type of anti-stress things! There's also medication you can take for anxiety+non-stop mind thoughts if you want to go that far. I take the homeopathic stuff and it makes it better for me. Also if you eat healthy foods and do exercise on a consistent basis every day, it makes your life much better. A lot of health problems tend to go away after awhile of making lifestyle changes! Also I've learned if you don't focus TOO much on what's wrong and just accept it and live in the moment (even if it's unthinkable), it's way better for your emotional health too!

I hope things look up for you though! Maybe something good will happen soon!

Kim Sato wrote: 17 Dec 2023, 03:19 You should check out some homeopathic type of anti-stress things! There's also medication you can take for anxiety+non-stop mind thoughts if you want to go that far. I take the homeopathic stuff and it makes it better for me. Also if you eat healthy foods and do exercise on a consistent basis every day, it makes your life much better. A lot of health problems tend to go away after awhile of making lifestyle changes! Also I've learned if you don't focus TOO much on what's wrong and just accept it and live in the moment (even if it's unthinkable), it's way better for your emotional health too!

I hope things look up for you though! Maybe something good will happen soon!

Yeah I’ve been trying to exercise and stuff but I’m just soooo busy like omgggg. Also ocd runs in my dads side of the family so my parents are 90% sure I have that or adhd could even be both 🤷‍♀️and eveytime I say I wanna get diagnosed my mom goes oh okay then does literally NOTHING to help me! Like what? But I will try out a coil things and stuff thanks Kim!

Np! Yeah you just have to force yourself to do it regardless of how busy you are! When it comes to health, you should always try to put it first above anything else. My husband got diagnozed with ADHD and I have ADD. So that's always fun. Sighs. Mine is a more minor version than husband's. But it's still annoying to me. Sighs again. I have slight OCD too and husband has the more severe kind. Wish we could all just be happy and healthy! You should try and make an appointment or something with a specialist, maybe just check up with your parents and see when they might have some free time.

They're probably really busy and just forget about it, forgetfulness is horrible ugh, I hate when I forget something because I'm too busy doing other things and then when I remember I'm like GAH THAT'S WHAT I FORGOT. Anyway, regarding exercise, I have a suggestion! If you find yourself too busy to set aside time to exercise every day, you can take a look at what you need to do for each day. Then do exercise while you're doing something else on your list. Same for food/eating. Like if you have to study or do homework, do that and eat while you're doing it. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. And then if you want to watch TV for a break you can watch TV while standing up and doing squats. Easy exercise and it will help you burn some calories too! You can start slow with exercise too.

Like just do 5-15 minutes a day of whatever for a few weeks. Then add another 5 minutes etc...

Oh I think I heard that drinking chamomile tea (you can add some honey too) helps calm your mind down a little. So that might work for you too!

Kim Sato wrote: 17 Dec 2023, 03:59 Np! Yeah you just have to force yourself to do it regardless of how busy you are! When it comes to health, you should always try to put it first above anything else. My husband got diagnozed with ADHD and I have ADD. So that's always fun. Sighs. Mine is a more minor version than husband's. But it's still annoying to me. Sighs again. I have slight OCD too and husband has the more severe kind. Wish we could all just be happy and healthy! You should try and make an appointment or something with a specialist, maybe just check up with your parents and see when they might have some free time.

They're probably really busy and just forget about it, forgetfulness is horrible ugh, I hate when I forget something because I'm too busy doing other things and then when I remember I'm like GAH THAT'S WHAT I FORGOT. Anyway, regarding exercise, I have a suggestion! If you find yourself too busy to set aside time to exercise every day, you can take a look at what you need to do for each day. Then do exercise while you're doing something else on your list. Same for food/eating. Like if you have to study or do homework, do that and eat while you're doing it. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. And then if you want to watch TV for a break you can watch TV while standing up and doing squats. Easy exercise and it will help you burn some calories too! You can start slow with exercise too.

Like just do 5-15 minutes a day of whatever for a few weeks. Then add another 5 minutes etc...

Oh I think I heard that drinking chamomile tea (you can add some honey too) helps calm your mind down a little. So that might work for you too!

Yeah I was going to bring it up after Christmas because we are soooo busy rn so we wouldn’t have time to or anything but I will definitely bring it up again

And yea I try to make myself eat while watching something so that my brain doesn’t make me feel bad or anything. like today I had volunteering with a kids Christmas party at the community centre I go to and I never ate lunch or supper yesterday so I was feeling super lightheaded then one of the instructors made me eat something so I wouldn’t pass out then I felt guilty because I 1. Didn’t eat and 2. Then ate a bunch like my brain just needs to shut up! It’s so annoyingggg

Yea I am planning to start walking around my street once it’s not like ice outside I’m from Canada so it’s superrrrr cold here in the winter. But in the meantime I try to just walk around and do squats or anything like that.

Aliana Duke wrote: 17 Dec 2023, 04:06

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And yea I try to make myself eat while watching something so that my brain doesn’t make me feel bad or anything. like today I had volunteering with a kids Christmas party at the community centre I go to and I never ate lunch or supper yesterday so I was feeling super lightheaded then one of the instructors made me eat something so I wouldn’t pass out then I felt guilty because I 1. Didn’t eat and 2. Then ate a bunch like my brain just needs to shut up! It’s so annoyingggg
Yea I am planning to start walking around my street once it’s not like ice outside I’m from Canada so it’s superrrrr cold here in the winter. But in the meantime I try to just walk around and do squats or anything like that.

Sounds like a plan! Aww that sounds awesome! I used to do that when I was younger too! But yeah, eating is essential. You don't want to not eat and pass out because that would cause more problems. Definitely make sure you eat!!!! Even if it's just a small amount.

Ahhhh gotcha. I'm US. But I went to Montreal when I was doing ROTC back in college. It was during the snow time so it was icy and insane but I liked it there! Yeah biking, walking, doing squats, push-ups, sit-ups etc... all really good to do! You're probably young too (compared to me lolol) and have lots of energy (as long as you get enough to eat/sleep), I'm envious of you now!!! AHAHAH. If I could I'd send you some homemade baked goods through the internet!

Like teleportation food! Wouldn't that be cool?

I am young! I’m actually younger than Bailey lol by like 2 years I think it is??

And yeah that would be awesome!! I’ve made so many good friends on here already but I know I probably will never be able to actually meet any of them and it breaks my heart tbh🥲

Well maybe one day some of us will meet! Would be fun if we could all get together at some point in the future like one of those conventions you see of people who only know eachother online playing games. You know what I mean? Where you all decide to meet up at a certain location on a certain date. You'd make hotel arrangements etc... but that would be when everyone is at least an adult with a job to be able to afford to pay for the trip/hotel etc... but I think it would be cool to have a 'convention' like for HiO people where we could all meet in real life together at some point in the future at a fun location! We could meet up at a mall or something or amusement park or w/e some place that's fun and then hang out, talk about Hio, maybe do some writing post games or something together, I don't know, something fun like that!

Or if I ever won the lottery for millions I could pay for everyone to come and meet up and do some fun stuff together! Make good use of the $ ahahaha.

There are some kinds of tea with calming effect, and one of them is indeed chamomile tea. Also if you don't have time to do exercises every day you can start with once-twice in a week.

Also general advice, just try complimenting yourself, saying how awesome and wonderful you are. Or even have some inspiring quotes every day, that's gonna help with having some positive thoughts.

As for meeting with hio friends, it would be awesome, maybe some day in the future we could meet with some 🤍

Everything is possible as long as we are wishing for it and making it our goal ✨🍀

*spreads hugs and gingerbread biscuits*

-bakes some homemade sweets and gives them out to everyone-