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. :)
Tags: clinical depression, respect, happy thoughts, anger, sorry
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Me again. Love you guys.
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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!!!!!)
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/
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
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!
Good to see you're a lil happier today, Kathy.
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
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
we all love you too.
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 !
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
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
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
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