Chronic Fatigue Survivor's Blog

A blog about my experience recovering from Chronic Fatigue

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Couldn't get to sleep last night, so I stayed up late finishing off Richard Branson's autobiography Losing My Virginity. I love the guy's mindset; whatever he wants, he just goes after, seemingly without fear. Very inspiring. Woke up this morning feeling quite tense and agitated. My cold/flu is gone, so I'm back to just feeling [...]

I'm  just going to go stream-of-consciousness with this one: Went to acting class today. We do "activities" and "doors", where we work together in pairs. One person is doing an activity in their lounge room, when the other interrupts at the door. The two of us dialogue using repetition, both attempting to get our needs [...]

In the beginning... The story of last weekend really begins on Friday evening. A bit before then in fact, when two girls from my acting class Vanessa and Monique, both expressed interest in coming with me to a psychodrama introductory evening on Friday night. I thought "Great, be good to have their company", and I [...]

I just watched Session 7, on awareness of stress patterns; which seems very relevant to me. I constantly seem to be on the verge of overwhelm, reminding myself to back off a bit and take things easy. Part of me keeps shouting "But I don't want to! Yes, there's a lot to do, but I [...]

I can't believe how quickly I can go from one extreme to the other. No sooner do I write an optimistic post about how I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere, than something triggers me and I feel all pessimistic and frustrated again. Saturday's "date" went fine; she was lovely and I was engaging, and [...]

Well it's 3 months since I started the Gupta programme, so I thought I'd give you all an update on where my symptoms are at. I don't feel radically different, but I don't seem to have the lows that I used to. I'm not feeling so desperate about being ill, or about getting better. I [...]