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Wednesday June 6, 2007
Category: AnxietyPerverted Elmo and the Gospel of Luke
Note to self: Do not enter Toys-R-Us after 7 p.m. or when fatigued.For a highly-sensitive person (HSP as defined by Elaine Aron in her bestseller "The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You") with sensory-integration issues...posted by Beyond Blue @12:00pm Permalink 
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Thankyou, I feel the same way every time I buy a toy for my kids, I feel like I am taking away their future, and I think often of children in other countries. I try to remedy my guilt by making frequent donations to various causes, explaining the cause and benefit to my children... it helps a little.
Am I the only one tired of all the soccer Moms in the SUV's, we all need to be responsible for this mess that generations of excess and industry has got us into.. Please for the sake of my children, and yours buy a hybrid, recycle those old toys to charity, teach your children the value of the earth, the air, all of life deserves respect! and remember Use your birth for all it's worth
Posted by: Saraswati | June 8, 2007 3:49 PM
hmmm. am unclear as to what the chill-out verse is corresponding to in your life: to everyday stress or to environmental matters about which we SHOULD BE raising our collective consciousness AND doing something calm but directive to halt. show up. do your part. leave the rest to heaven.
enjoy reading Beyond Blue.
Posted by: softsilk | June 20, 2007 5:33 AM
Having Major Depression and some issues with OCD I can so relate to your trip to Toys-R-Us. Something I was taught in Outpatient about worrying that I found helpful is setting a scheduled time (half an hour every day)for worrying. Mine was from 4:30 to 5:00. At that time I would sit in a chair and that was my time to focus on worrying. Then any other time during the day when I found myself beginning to worry I would remind myself that I must wait to worry until my worry time. After a short while I found when my worry time came I couldn't find anything to worry about and I began to laugh at the whole idea and soon didn't need scheduled worry time anymore because I no longer focused on worrying.
Posted by: Kirsten | June 20, 2007 1:34 PM
I can so relate to the joys of Toys R Us! I've had the "pleasure" of working in a toy store {not Toys R Us, thank God!} in a mall over the holidays. All I can say about the screaming kids {"OK, honey, it's time to go" is one of the major triggers} are three little words: instant birth control!
Don't get me wrong---I LOVE the kids and the vast majority of the time, they're great, but when they scream in protest {they really can't tell the parent, "Look I'm busy right now, but just let me wrap this up and we'll go then."} it is of just the right frequency to drive me right up the wall. And it's so much "fun" when the screaming child is being held in the parent's arms---you didn't need that left eardrum now, did you?
As you can see, a sense of humor is an excellent coping mechanism! As far as shopping is concerned---avoid Toys R Us at all costs over the holidays! And try and stay from the mall as well; the two worst days are the day after Thanksgiving and "National Exchange Day" {December 26th}.
Posted by: Denise | September 29, 2007 9:30 AM
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