YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

The money stress sends me over the edge, maybe not the bottom, more like hanging on a misplaced tree. I have gotten so much better at handling so many thing s that set my anxiety and depression but the money stuff just seems to be a hole that I keep digging deeper into since my divorce. It's amazing how one stress brings back the others, like being lonely. Ok vent over. Can pass the soap box over.

Hello talkthedog!

I know what you mean about money problems. I have a bad habit to try to buy stuff as a way to manage my mood.

Can you give yourself partial credit for improvement? I hope so. I sometimes beat myself up for not being perfect, and then I discount the improvement I have made, and I lose all hope, and backslide horrifically!

I hope you don't do that to yourself - you deserve better!

All the best, take care, we here are all cheering for your greatest today and tomorrow!

Oh man, the shopping therapy has had its bad moments and I have been saying to myself "I don't need anything" as a mantra. It sometimes works! LOL

So for more details and an update. When I originally posted I had screwed up my mortgage....again. Well after a small inner breakdown and not calling my parents in a panic, I dealt with it! And quite well! I called the new mortgage company (because the old one sold it) and set everything up to fix it; an electronic payment, and a payment plan, etc. Well the old bank decided the same day to deposit my check and forward it to the new company... long story slightly shortened... I paid my mortgage twice and overdraft my account. And mortgage companies are NOT helpful when you give them too much money... Well lets hope I am caught up before my cable/internet is shut off! LOL!