Author: sedge808

I’m sugar free

For me the best thing I’ve done for myself is to be off sugar.

I lived on sugar as a child. Cordial drinks after school. Sweet homemade biscuits. Dinner was always followed by dessert, and in the evening, we had sweets and chocolates. This was every day!

Then as an adult, chocolate was one of the three food groups. Red wine, Coffee and Chocolate. I would buy it in bulk. Seven 250-gram blocks at a time. I would often eat two of these a day. That’s 500 grams of chocolate !!!

I’m now 58 and I’m overweight. So being sugar free is the key to feeling really good. It’s like being a different person!

When I eat sugar, I feel sluggish, bloated and fuzzy in the head. Sugar gives me a false sense of peace, just like alcohol does. Being sugar free takes courage but very much worth it 100%

Gavin.

five traumas

trauma

noun1.

a deeply distressing or disturbing 

experience.”

a personal trauma like the death of a child”

2.MEDICINEphysical injury.”rupture of the diaphragm caused by blunt trauma”

1.Childhood sexual abuse. 6 to 9.
2. Domestic violence. First 16 years.
3. Being bashed and raped. Age 19.
4. Being relentlessly stalked. 2007 to 2010. Three and a half years.
5. Neighbour from hell. 2013 to 2022. Eight and a half years.

    As you can see if you add up all the years of trauma, there is a vast chunk of my life spent in trauma and abuse.

    The cost has mostly been on my mental health.

    Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Depression and more recently Bipolar 2.

    At the moment my biggest issues are isolation. Lack of exercise and a need to regulate my diet. Getting there slowly. I have stopped drinking altogether which is excellent…and it also saves me a lot of money. Nightmares are a constant issue, but I’ve been having them since I was four, so used to dealing with them.

    Grow has helped me a lot over the years.

    Whatever the level of disorder or other limitations in my life,
    my existing situation can be constantly improved by good
    habits of thinking and acting and cooperation with help.

    Gavin.

    Beef Netflix

    Beef is a Netflix TV show about how unregulated emotions can have devastating consequences on our lives and other people’s lives.

    I really love this TV show. Both funny and poignant.

    Danny is returning three hibachi grills and a carbon monoxide detector for the third time.

    He originally bought them to kill himself, but for gets the receipt.

    I’ve had SO many issues with anger throughout my life. When I was a child, I specifically wasn’t allowed to express anger (only my father was allowed to do that). Because of this, anger became an emotion that was always BIGGER than it should be. If I felt a small amount of anger, it would quickly turn into rage. This has had a very detrimental effect on my life.

    This TV show really shows how unregulated emotions can both rule our lives and do real harm to other people and our own families.

    Gavin.