You're welcome, I'm glad if it helped at all. Thank you for sharing your story -- I get as much out of reading and responding to other people's threads as I do from my own thread.
One other thing that's helped me: Anger, frustration, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, melancholy, depression -- I used to think of these as negative emotions. Bad emotions! Shoo! Go away! Try to get back to a happy place. That struggle just never led anywhere useful.
They are difficult emotions, but they are just emotions.
I would like to get to a place where I look at these experiences as gifts. "I am experiencing the full emotional spectrum of what life has to offer." I would be lying if I said I am at that place.
