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View Poll Results: Do You Have the Urge to Run When Upset? | |
Yes, I often have the urge to run, and I have run off many times.
|     | 31 | 49.21% | |
I sometimes have the urge to run.
|    | 22 | 34.92% | |
I used to have the urge to run, but it's under control now.
|    | 7 | 11.11% | |
I have never felt like running off.
|    | 3 | 4.76% | 
25-01-2008, 03:15 AM
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LOL to funny Sunnydaze.. I remodel my house like every spring too. Never thought that maybe it could be some urge to change my environment to satisfy some feeling of restlessness. |
25-01-2008, 05:24 AM
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I've only been feeling this way lately. I actually have taken off for short drives when angry or too frustrated to deal with a situation, but I wouldn't say "many times," just a few. It's because I feel under too much pressure at home lately. I often wish I could run away to my dad's. Blah, probably too much information for a poll. I should journal about it. |
25-01-2008, 08:24 AM
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Evie - I am there now with this and fighting not to run. Sometimes I will even physically run away which as you know with asthma has destructive effects which is probably my intent? I will post this and won't delete - i will, i will... |
28-01-2008, 07:21 AM
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I used to run away and walk the streets very late at night. But over the years I have wanted to run away.... forever like. pack up, new name, new identity, new everything. |
28-01-2008, 07:38 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oranjestad, Aruba
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Wow thanks all for the answers, sorry I haven't responded much. I've been very unsure of myself with responding to threads lately, even my own!! Anyways it's been really great to hear, once again, that I'm not the only one who does this. And Lisa I really relate to the walking the streets at night. I used to do that a LOT when I lived alone in the city. I walked through dangerous neighbours and everything, didn't care at all, I was just so depressed and anxious that I didn't care about anything at all. And Claire, totally relate to the energy thing too. It feels like pent-up energy for me too oftimes. |
28-01-2008, 09:49 AM
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I have just manged for the 1st time not to run away - my partner and I seperated! I am still here and have not quit anything - amazing! But yeah I would normally run and not look back! |
03-02-2008, 01:16 PM
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I don't run, necessarily, as much as i avoid things that remind me of things i want to forget. |
13-02-2008, 07:13 PM
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Fight or flight, that is definitely me. But it is mostly a feeling inside these days, wanting, aching, to run far away, esp. when the s-kidz are raging.... but my physical body stays stuck like super glue to my bed : / My logical mind knows I have nowhere to go. |
15-02-2008, 08:06 AM
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Wow! I am amazed, I am a new maybe member, I'm being checked out, and I thought I was the only person in the world who wants to quit, sell the townhouse and hit the road! I won't do it, because I can't out-run depression, but it sure would feel good at times.
I like the mini-run-aways that were discussed. I don't mean mentally. I mean physically taking a day or two and going anywhere that is mind changing, beach, mountains, even museum might do in a pinch!
Chissi |
15-02-2008, 08:48 AM
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I don't really know what is going on with me at the moment. But I have an incredible urge to run away. I don't have any plans. I don't know where I would go. I just feel like i need to get away from these 4 walls and get away from me. I know it's not the answer. How can I run away from myself? Where ever I go, my broken mind will come too. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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