Have YOU ever taken a BYC BREAK? Why?

[Laurajean]

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I know I've mentioned it on this site a couple of times, when it was relevant. I'm not at all ashamed, I've been battling it my whole life. I have seen a couple others mention it too. Thankfully, it's not the quite stigma it used to be; not so much at least. Progress.....slow but steady.

 

[heatherindeskies]

I'm glad it gets mentioned. i'm fairly new, so today was the first time I've seen it mentioned.
Nasty stuff, isn't it? glad yer making progress in the battle.
I'm too new to take a break from the site yet....but this place has helped me not think about the triggers of depression.
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I know I've mentioned it on this site a couple of times, when it was relevant. I'm not at all ashamed, I've been battling it my whole life. I have seen a couple others mention it too. Thankfully, it's not the quite stigma it used to be; not so much at least. Progress.....slow but steady.

 

[Laurajean]

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I know I've mentioned it on this site a couple of times, when it was relevant. I'm not at all ashamed, I've been battling it my whole life. I have seen a couple others mention it too. Thankfully, it's not the quite stigma it used to be; not so much at least. Progress.....slow but steady.

I come on here as an escape - "happy time" so to speak, if it's chilly outside, etc., and although I don't mind a healthy debate sometimes, one thing I've learned is to skip right over the posts with depressing titles about things in the news, speaking of triggers. I'm trying to get away from that, not dwell on it. Other people may take comfort in discussing the sad things in the news, but as I'm sure you understand, for some of us it's just too much. I may have mentioned this earlier in this very thread, but if I start feeling bummed or overwhelmed, I go to the Raising Chicks section and look at cute chickie pics, stuff like that. I come to this board because chickens bring me such joy, and I love to hear what others are doing with their chickens and lives. I hope it never comes to a point where I feel a need to take a break.

 

[speckledhen]

To quote myself in my previous post:

Um, folks, this is not the place for religious discussion, so let's not go there, please. No need to start a fistfight, okay?

I'll be removing references past the first post in the thread since no one seems to be able to drop it. I'm glad it seemed to be resolved, but let's stick to the subject at hand.​

 

[HeatherLynn]

I was a bit bored and sat going back through past posts and ran across this one. I think its really healthy to take a break now and then. Things can become so much more complicated when you have so many personalities in one little community and its easy to be right in the middle of it without meaning to. Online communities can really suck you in and you find yourself really not doing everything you should too. Rather than call a SIL or a friend to chat with when upset I find myself on here. Thats not healthy. I think now that my chick days have settled down I am due for a break too. Maybe come back in the spring when I am hatching and have cute pics to share.

 

[MagsC]

I randomly take breaks, usually during the warmer times of the year when there are a million and one things to get done.
Even then though, I often just lurk and read the posts later in the evening or when I have insomnia.

 

[Zahboo]

I took a break for a while because for a short time there was an abundance of idiots. I have a short temper and was just getting ticked at people too much. I stopped for a few months and by then the trolls dispersed

 

[Laurajean]

Yes, there are times when I take a break from it all and do nothing but veg on BYC!

 

[Beekissed]

I have taken several breaks and for much the same reason.....too weary of being exposed to bad talk, bad people, bad stories that make you feel like smacking someone's head against a brick wall until the emptiness leakes out.

Plus, it can take up a lot of time, make you feel knotted up inside when someone is particularly vicious and there are better things to do with one's time in this world.....like relating to real people in your real world in real time.

 

[English Chick]

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Me too.


But I see what you mean Chickenmaven. It's easy to get callous and frustrated with the same old questions and issues we've heard a million times. But I know for sure that if I joined BYC yesterday, I'd be asking those same old questions and having the same old issues. So how can I be too judgemental? (Only when I have PMS!!!!)

PS: Today's my three-year anniversary of joining BYC - so I'm a REAL old goat on here.

and you STILL make me smile ((hugs)))