HURRAY!!!

Pas Besalo always helps. KOMT!!!

glad to hear that you are feeling better!

Even though you have a psak from your Rebbe - if in your heart you are so attached to your 'chumrah' that deep down inside you feel like a loser by 'being meikil' and listening to acapella...then it will backfire and lead you to worse, not better.

Just a thought from the field, friend.

Hatzlocha!

PS. I am filled with joy when I can feel sad, broken-hearted, and cry over the Churban, or over anything else that is a true loss. Sadness over the churban and our tzaros on Tish'a b'Av is a mitzvah just like any other mitzvah is. That's important for me to remember.

But depression or feeling like a piece of garbage has nothing to do with sadness over the churban, at all.

May Hashem continue to help us make that distinction and be so happy that we can be truly sad over the right things and in the right way.

And some of us are totally unable to do that and - until they are more healthy - for now, Hashem surely wants those folks to run away from mourning of any kind whatsoever! May Hashem help us recognize and admit when we are in that category, and do the right thing by not being sad at all!

Just to let you all know, I fell again last night...
B'H I'm not depressed about it- it was right before I went to bed, so I didn't really have much time to think about it and get all depressed.
I think the fact that it's the middle of a heat wave here in the UK doesn't help.
a) The streets are full of pritzus.
b) I get very agitated in the hot weather, and I become much more susceptible to falling...

sorry to hear about you falling
good that you didn't get depressed
today is a new day and start again, moment by moment

I was havin a rough day here in usa, and the brothers here willed me out of it

I think im better now
they say that I know that im better now

Fell Schmell!! KOT!!

and about the second thing, ask skeptical for some "deprogramming" tips, all of us have some negative programing, one of mine is "when i'm tired .....", but we aren't really bound to it, we can overcome it.

Take it by the moment, Hatzlacha

On I struggle/limp... Bechasdei Hashem I haven't fallen since Motzei Shabbos, but I slipped not long ago...

if youre moving on, you are not limping along!
that is full throttle ahead
keep your head up high and concentrate on the moment

chazak!

I've just taken a decision: I'm taking a break from GYE for a while, till the 6th of August (there's a reason for that date, it's not random). I'm spending waaaaaaay too much time on here, and I think it's making me too preoccupied with it.
So it's bye bye from me for the time being, I'll see you all in just under a month...

As long as you're moving in the right direction. No matter how slow, bumpy, or difficult.

Stay strong, keep climbing and KOMT!

We'll miss you. Hope to see you I'YH in a month.

Uf chavrusa zvi, don't isolate yourself. I am talking to myself of course here. But isolation is not good. Isolation is a bad bad thing.

By Zviki!!

zvi wrote:


Calendar check

Yes, I changed my mind... I feel it's better for me not to post on the forum... if you want to know the reason feel free to PM me.
Sorry!
Hope you all have a Kesiva v'chasima tovah!