I maybe Losing The House I Have Lived In All my Life

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Ok my family may be losing the house I have lived in all my life. We may have to rent a new house. This is causing my to feel like throwing up and other nauseous feelings. I am just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them and how they dealt with it. Or how do you think you guys would handle it. I think I am not feeling well because I fear the change that this would entail.

The only constant in the universe is change. It's taken me a long time to accept this even though I knew it intellectually decades ago.

Moving is stressful. There are some advantages though. One good thing is that when cleaning and packing you may find cool stuff that had been missing for years. Also, you may get rid of a lot of stuff you find you don't need anymore.

I'm sorry you may be losing the house you've lived in all your life. I'm glad WrongPlanet forums are here. Maybe someone else can offer more comforting or practical advice than I can. Good luck and best wishes to you and yours.

oh my, that sounds scary. I can't imagine what would happen if I lost my home. It's the basis of everything for me... Hold on there buddy, whatever happens life is a great gift. Best regards to you and your family!

Thank you you two.

I am so sorry to hear this. I lost my house last year and it was traumatic. This is happening to millions of people now. I won't lie and say that it's easy. Everyone will be very stressed out and people may get short-tempered. All you can do is try to hold yourself together and help to pack. It takes a long time to pack and move in to a new place. And the new place may not be nearly as nice as your old house. And that new place may turn out to be a temporary place too, if you move once more. The person who said life is change was correct. Life will keep evolving for you with new surprises at every turn; some good, some not so good. You can't stop it, so all you can do is try to keep your head level.

Try to use calming techniques when you feel anxiety making you sick. Calming techniques such as going for a walk, exercising until exhausted, reading something soothing, or whatever you can find that helps calm you down. Try to remember you will be okay. Post your updates here so we can all encourage you along the way. Remember that you will lose the internet for possibly a few days between packing the computer and setting it up again in a new house.

We dont really know yet. Right now I am hoping its someone who will rent the house to us.

I am sorry this is happening to you, Thewrll. The world economy is not in a very good state at the moment. ((((((hugs))))))))

Thanx for the non physical hugs. My dad used to be a realtor and used to make between 60,000 and 100,000 a year. Stupid housing market.

Since your dad knows about realty, maybe he will be able to figure something out.

I have lived in well over a dozen places throughout my life, and I have always preferred a house rather than an apartment. However, I do not recall ever actually losing a place and being *forced* to move, and I think that would definitely be emotionally unsettling (no pun intended).

Let us know how things actually develop there!

my parents haven't paid the mortgage in over a year mabie 2 i dont know. its rough. i have kept most of my stuff packed. i haven't unpack since i moved in a year or 2 ago. I cant remember cause i have lost track of time. days hours months years are blended.

sorry your in that situation too

My dad is trying to see if the companies dealing with our house are screwing us over like they do with so many other people. It will last between 5 months and 8 months so we will see what happens then. My heart needs a rest.

I find moving to a new home very stressful, and I'm currently in my eleventh home. For me, the stress comes from adapting to a new environment rather than the physical process of packing and relocating.

When I was younger I found that if I put a couple of posters on the wall by my bed, and took these with me wherever I moved to it helped to make the new place seem more like home. The room and the wallpaper would be different, but the posters took the edge off the scary newness. If your family are moving familiar items of furniture with them then that may make the move easier for you to deal with - the hardest time for me was I had to keep moving alone into different furnished bedsits.

If your family is forced to move, then I do hope you manage to settle quickly into your new home. It may be very difficult for you at first, but life is full of changes and learning to cope with unwanted change is a skill which will be of enormous use throughout your life.

I used to long for security, for the safeness of sameness.
Then life makes things change, looking around it seems that the people who feel they can count on things are simply people who have yet to have the rug pulled out from under them.
So it seems that security is a myth, that there really is not one thing outside of ourselves that people try to count on that can't be taken away. That is a lesson that keeps being taught.

I hope things work out for you and that if you need to move, that you find it to be a strengthening experience.

Maybe you can take solice in the fact that if something like that to me, I'd completely lose it. Really. A sudden change like that of this magnitude would cause my brain to go bye-bye for good. You're doing allright, I am sure something will turn up that will save your house somehow.