Have you regressed?

I have a couple of times but you get better each time getting it back. So hopefully your night is not all bad but whatever it is…. the sun will be up tomorrow.

There are certain human flaws we all struggle with. I don’t think you ever fully conquer something like “not sweating the small stuff.” I’m sorry you’re having a bad night. Know there are friends out there willing to offer advice and comfort when you’re having a hard time. Sending you positive thoughts and wishes.

My yoga practice feels like I’ve regressed. I was feeling so good and now I have a hard time with EVERYTHING!
Also cooking. If I don’t cook all the time, I have to adhere strictly to recipes. I used to be able to cook anything up on the fly. It is NOT like riding a bike!
As far as coping skills go, I think it would be really difficult for me to go back to poverty living. I try to remember so I don’t take everything I have for granted, but if I suddenly had to live on $1000 or less a month, I know I could do it but I would probably be a basket case and I never want to be in that position again.

Yes, on being careful about eating too much sugar. I had my A1C down to 5.7, and slacked off on my diligence to eat properly.

I never get a chance to regress, more’s the pity.

Hard to say. My coping skills keep me from wishing for yesterday. Sure we all have regrets of things we once did well or how we looked or even how we enjoy life more because we were more naive. But I do my best every day to look forward to tomorrow and be grateful for yesterday. If I find myself feeling a little sad because I can’t walk as long or as fast as I once did or go up stairs without aching knees. I concentrate on all the things I wasn’t able to do before but now can. Life is about choices, changes, trades, wins, losing, compromises and sometimes we are doomed to repeat, but that is what keeps it interesting.

Yes! Gosh, what a great question. I was just trying to figure out if I don’t cope as well now, or if I am going through much more crap now. I’m desperate for some calm. I remember when I first started on Fluther I talked about being happy not having any pain and appreciating peace and simple things. Gawd, I want that peace back. I was happy with simple things, because I had been through the ringer with doctors and discomfort. Everything was relative. Normal was a very happy state for me, I didn’t need big exciting highs.

I kind of wandered on a tangent there, I hope that’s ok.

I think I resent having to cope with some of the things I’m dealing with right now. Some of it seems unnecessary.

GQ.

Oh yes, I’m right there with you @Mariah and @Judi Both for me. Feeling like I have digressed not only in my coping skills and personal growth from some years ago but also living in a poverty stricken situation after years of abundance and good fortune. You are right @Judi I am doing it but I don’t like it one little bit. So many things I used to take for granted are monumental challenges.

Wisdom works best when you are in a place of abundance, and trying to re-apply what once came effortlessly takes a effort now.

You still have the skills.. They never went away.

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My favorite quote is in this song.

The only way around your problems is straight through them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV79w0Xc6E8

@JLeslie You described my current feelings perfectly.

Noticing regression is progressive.

I had the best year of my life last year. I made some big life decisions and made some big changes for myself. I was so deeply happy and grateful.

And now that it’s time to quit my job, sell my house and move to a place I’ve barely visited, my PTSD is triggered like crazy.

I’m shaky, jumpy, can’t make decisions, can’t focus, am in pain every time I eat, have flashbacks, can’t handle social interactions, am quick to anger, easily overwhelmed, exhausted, insecure, resentful, I speak with a harsh tone, I need more and more alone time, it hurts to breathe, it hurts to nurse my baby, and on and on.

I know that it’s temporary… and that, in itself, is progress. I know that this will pass and I will be great again.

But fuck everything that has hurt me so deeply that I can barely function right now.

Absolutely! In some sense, I feel that I am in a perpetual cycle of x steps forward, x steps back.

But when I’m seeing more clearly, it appears that I consider existence to be something linear, in which I can progress, regress, or stagnate. I’m not sure that this is so accurate. It could be that my perception of this linear model is as unhelpful as some of my “regression”.

And one thing I have noticed is that my mind may be self-critical during difficult times and I may be filled with doubt about having developed anything positive from my meditation practice. However, I have absolutely no idea how I would have managed difficult times had I not had a practice for many years. I’d be kidding myself to believe that I know how I would have responded. It’s quite possible that the very nature of the mind during very challenging situations is to respond with doubt. And this doubt – if acknowledged – can be helpful in working out which way may be helpful at that moment.

Anyway, sorry for the rattling on. The TLDR; version = of course I feel as though I have regressed. I think we all do. It’s part of being human, and part of the process.