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“Getting a cancer diagnosis is extremely stressful, and that brings a whole load of emotions, and lack of sleep certainly does not help. I think many of us have periods of insomnia. I experienced a long period of not sleeping. I could go off to sleep quite quickly, but after an hour I would find myself wide awake again, and would spend the rest of the night getting frustrated because I couldn't sleep."
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Ooh I do remember Tressy ... and the twits that thought they could give her hair cut!
Umm well Stressy is ... Apt as due to his autism he is often stressing, sometimes as a reaction, sometimes as anticipation. For example, he stresses when he hasn't got an arty creative project, stresses when he has, stresses he needs to be doing it, stresses doing it, stresses as wants it finished, stresses when it is finished... as he needs a project
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Hi, do you feel those around you don't really understand or is it the anxiety itself that brings feelings of being alone?
Have you been able to work out what makes it a little better, makes it a bit worse?
Take care
Stressy is good then, and sounds like it sums up his demeanor to a T, poor fella. Does he know that's what you call him or would it stress him further? I guess it would as a SOH doesn't always go hand in hand with autism as they tend to take things literally.
I hope you've managed to scrape the dog off the boot! xxx
thank you shimmering for trying to understand. i cant understand it myself so dont expect others to understand it.
Noooo! They don't know I refer to them as Stressy. They think other folk stress. Actually they point out other people's behaviour, like avoidance, drama, etc but of course non of that applies to them
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