Thursday, January 4, 2007

Me again. Love you guys.



    I am sorry that I lashed out the way I did yesterday. 
    Don't get me wrong, I'm not sorry for what I said, 
    but I shouldn't have made the entry from the angry
    place I was in at the time.

   Thank you all for the emails and the comments. 
   It means more to me than you will ever know. 
   And to the 2 of you shared even more (I hope you know
   who you are) you are the best.  Some of the dust flew
   off your halo's and got into my eye.  :)

    I probably also had a knee jerk reaction to the
   post that I took down.  Everyone has a right to
   their opinions but I never would have thought anyone
   would think that I was trivalizing the war in Iraq or
   trying to further any kind of propogadia.
    I saw light hearted pictures with our military 
    men and women and thought the captions were
    cute.  That's it.  I had no thought of the war or of
   anyone taking the post as any thing but funny.

    Life is hard right now.  Not only I am dealing with the 
   darkness of my clinical depression, but also with
   the mental status of my mother.  Tomorrow I take
   her to the doctor and will have to tell the doctor I think
   something is wrong with mom.  That is bad enough but
   doing it in the state I am in isn't making anything
    any easier for me at the moment.

    I have tried not to post from my dark places here.  I
    know that some have no idea about clinical depression.
    I know that unless you have it -- or a loved one has it
    you can't understand.  My bad.

   I go to the doctor this afternoon.  Hopefully he will have
   a new idea of where to go with my meds.

   So much for the darkness.  

   And pear dude about your last comment, thanks.  It
   means the world to me.  We are so different yet more
   alike than we know.

   Another topic please!!!!!

   Going through some bookcases trying to clean out this
   mess I call a home I found a book I didn't know I had
   (found several really).  "Happy Thoughts  333 Things
   to make you happy."  As you can tell the book hasn't done
   much for me.  LOL  But I thought what the heck.  I have
   a huge collection of those "nothing books" blank journals
   or whatever you want to call them.  I buy them but never
   write in them.  I am so weird.  Anyway I have a small
   thin one that I have decided to make into my own
   "happy thoughts".  Though the book is blank except for
   the title page I have given it, I am going to try to make
    my own list of 333 things that make me happy.  Ok,
    so I don't were the author came up with 333 things, so
    my book my have more or probably less.  It make take
    my life time to get a list long enough to go past the
    first few pages but I am going to try.  Maybe some of
    you guys would want to do the same.  Get a small notebook
    or whatever and start a list.  And keep it going.  
    Don't know if it will actually make any of us happy, but
    then again maybe a year or so down the road it might
    be something good to look at.  Maybe they will let me
    read it in my padded cell.  :)

                

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey  glad your back and feeling like a new start with your happy thoughts. yeah some days I put on a smile nad say as in the tommy lee jones movie (THIS IS MY HAPPY FACE!!!!!)

Anonymous said...

As someone who suffers from clinical chronic depression, I find it very hard to come up  with happy thoughts. While I probably won't  go so far as writing them down, I am going to consciously look for at least some happiness, despit my home bound circumstances. Thank you for the  encouragement. Margo
http://journals.aol.com/magogos/MagogoSsMusingsAChangingLife/

Anonymous said...

Hi Kathy...

I hope your feeling so much better today. I read a book from our local library it is called "Self Help For Your Nerves" and the author is a Canadian lady Dr. but, i'm not sure of her full name i think her first name is Barbara (something) and my husband always made a point of refering to this book in dark times and i also took note of quite a few things in it for myself to help cope with these situations! I- we found it most useful. when these dark side of things occur my husband ( even myself ) always tries to sit calm and let things float through us. myself, i take on a laid back attitude, like as if i don't care ( but inside i really do ) and let things float through me ( fight or flight ) it works.( If you fight it you will fall apart and get in a state. flight is relax and calm or walk away...It has taken years of practice to come to terms with this. If you can get hold of this book i hope it will help you...try the fight or flight thing.

I have a link that might be of some use to you. I had to read it a couple of times before i made sence of it, as it it is very interlectual for me...lol. I hope you will take a look. This is Johns NEW&YOU journal. This is simular to my laid back thing i was telling you about. He started this journal September'06. and he has just wrote a book for Deaf people ( as he is deaf himself)

http://journals.aol.co.uk/jonh8m/new--you/

Best Wishes to you...
Astra!
http://journals.aol.co.uk/astra1547/astrasjournal




Anonymous said...

I tried the happy journals a few times.....actually they were those greatful ones....like you're saying. There was a few days when all I could write was. I'm here.........LOL!

Anonymous said...

Good to see you're a lil happier today, Kathy.

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear that things have calmed down and you seem to feel better today.  We really value your contributions here in Jland, Kathy.  We all care.
Sam

Anonymous said...

I used to buy those blank books too and then never touch them...because I didn't want to immediately put something stupid in and just ruin 'em.   I somehow got over it.  I just draw or write in them like a maniac and get the first smudges of thought over with.  Life isn't perfect...books we make won't be either.  That's how it works.  Hugs to you and your  cat children!

Russ

Anonymous said...

we all love you too.

Anonymous said...

Evidently I'm not the only one with beautiful "to die" for journals that are still blank.  I keep telling myself maybe my life is a big ol' blank !  

Anonymous said...

I'll be praying for your doctor trip today.  - The little book list of happy things -  sort of like count your many blessings!  I think the great thing about it is two fold....to look back and see "yes, I've been happy!"  but also, just knowing you want to list the things will hopefully make you stop and really recognize and appreciate a happy moment when your in it.  They may be very brief at times, but they are still just as golden!  - bArbara

Anonymous said...

What a GREAT idea to try to at least think of happy thoughts and moments, or quotes you like, things like that, list song lyrics even.  I used to have a book like that and should find it again.   This is YOUR journal, so if you are in your dark place and you can vent it out here and that helps you, then so be it.   Heck, perhaps it'd even help someone else, either understand depression more or you more, or not feel alone if s/he has it.  I do hope that things go well with your mother today.   That must be stressful for you.   Not sure if you'll feel up for updating us or not, but I'd find it interesting.   Hang in there, one day at a time:)   -- Robin

Anonymous said...

Once my son asked me for a "book of nothing."  He explained to me what it was he wanted.  A book with blank pages.  No lines.  I found it and gave it to him. He was so happy.  Since then, he's done the most wonderful drawings, and writing.  I've loved looking at it.  Your entry brought back that memory.
I know about depression. Believe me.  It's one of the most awful things a person can deal with.  It's like a pain that never goes away.  Feel free to talk about things even when you are in a dark place.  I'll still be here to read.  
Pam