Your life in 5 years......?

tips on how to cope: dealing with your feelings, dealing with the consequences of self-harm in your life. share your ideas and maybe pick up some new skills, too. you don't have to want to stop to learn something new here.

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Post by WorkDaySarcasm » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:25 pm

if it could b real

i would be happy
i would be be free from eating disorders
i would be free from mass worry about things which i do know i shouldn't be worrying about
i might finally be content with myself
i would have stoped SIing
and i would be in uni where im coping well and gettin on wit my studies.
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Post by Licentia Poetica » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:31 pm

I will no longer battle with my ED.

I swear.

ED be gone :evil:

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Post by beautiful_facade » Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:00 pm

It's scary how things change in a few short months...

Although in five years time, i will still be 26 :tongue:

:cystar: i will have done some more counselling training, possibly to diploma level
:cystar: i will have spent at another least a year travelling
:cystar: i will have stopped the burning
:cystar: i will be eating normally, or at least more normally.

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Post by Seeshellz » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:11 pm

In five years I will be:

:star: At my goal healthy weight and exercising regularily

:star: Dealt and coping with my issues

:star: Have a part-time job or volunteering

:star: Not afraid to go out in public

:star: Having a good relationship with my Dad
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Post by Alexannah » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:39 pm

I daydream about my life in 5 years. I would like to be fit and healthy and settled down with a long-term partner and first child. I would like to have finished studying English and Psychology by then and doing a Latin evening class. I would like to have mastered cooking and be a successful author. If I have not stopped SI by then, then at least have a partner who understands and helps me through it, though by then I would like to have stopped.
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Post by recovering4me » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:54 pm

lets see

--still be si free.
--be happy
--free of my illness
--not have to take meds
--have a good job
--have graduated from university
--maybe have a husband.
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Post by Licentia Poetica » Thu May 10, 2007 11:17 am

I will no longer feel like my life is a waste of time or a chore.
:redstar: the time to tell a person you care is now :redstar: the paper crane chain of hope :redstar:

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Post by wilson » Thu May 10, 2007 2:00 pm

i will no longer live each day like your death happened yesterday
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Post by half/hearted » Thu May 10, 2007 4:52 pm

my life in 5 years as I want it to be:

- moved out of my parents' house
- SI free or at least very much reduced
- living for me, not for my mother
- at least 1 good IRL friend
- safe, healed, uninfected lip rings.
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Post by heliotropes » Thu May 10, 2007 5:02 pm

- I will literally feel comfortable inside my own skin
- I will not need to wear makeup every day
- I will be in a loving relationship with a beautiful boy
- I will be fully independent
- I will be motivated, creative and happy
- I will have put the past behind me
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Post by Licentia Poetica » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:45 pm

Mine's changed a bit:

-I want to have seen more of the world.
-I want to do 4th year fashion and do it amazingly.
-I want to volunteer for lifeline.
-I want to still be on BUS, recovered or not.
:redstar: the time to tell a person you care is now :redstar: the paper crane chain of hope :redstar:

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Post by red umbrellas » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:44 pm

there are always little changes i think...
yet some things stay the same.

-i will be 26...almost 27
-i want to have seen more of the world; Russia, Bhutan, Peru, Estonia, Tibet, Nepal, Italy, more of France, Denmark, Sweden, Argentina, Chile...I may not have got to them all, but I want to be well on the way.
-i want to be in a stable, secure, loving relationship
-i want to keep the friends i have, become closer to them and maybe even make some more
-i want to do some voluntary work, even a few hours a week at the Oxfam Shop, or doing paperwork for the WSPA.
-i would like to be thinking about having children

i may not always be happy - i know that the depression/anxiety/ ED will always be lurking, waiting. but i hope that i will be happy enough and fulfilled enough and cared about enough that they will plague me less and les.
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Post by Nightfall » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:53 pm

must not add here - my wishes at present would probably be negativ enough to be censored, so I'll abstain and keep them to myself ... in my head ... where there is the alpha and the omega.
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Post by StevieLynn » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:39 pm

Barring illness? In five years I would be an officer in the United States Army, defending my country.

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Post by pelagic » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:27 am

Really? Oh...wow...

Okay...

-backpack around the world with close friend or three.
-go to college, take writing courses, business courses, psychology courses
-open my own coffee shop in Vancouver (organic, fair trade, shade grown, and with vegan options) (possibly open it somewhere else)
-live in a crappy apartment above the shop
-have a pet pig or a big dog
-perhaps foster a teenager

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Post by xStarBright » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:34 pm

I feel really, really guilty in admitting this..

But I want to be homed in with school work so I have something to do.

I want a really, really good coping method.. All I can think of for that is SI.

I want to be single - I don't want any socializing.
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Post by daisy_chain » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:05 pm

In 5 years i will be 22.
-I will have completed my german degree
-i will be pretty much fluent in german
-i will be doing my PGCE
-i will be in a happy,stable,loving relationship
-i will be comfortable in my own skin
I'm just dreaming out loud.

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Post by pelagic » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:55 am

And most of all, I want to be happy and to want what I already have.

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Post by Holi » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:29 pm

In 5 years I will be 19, wow
I want...
-To find another coping method
-to be at Uni studying to be a Doctor
-With people I feel Comfortable with
-To be fluent in Dutch (i live here, I should know how to speak the language)
-To be happy

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Post by lily_trying » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:05 pm

*to no longer be dealing with illnesses & chronic pain.
*to feel confident & comfortable again.
*to be able to not need day jobs & work with what i love.
*to be with someone i love & also have the relationship be a healthy one.

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