Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: write on January 17, 2008, 11:24:52 AM
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today is a damp grey day I don't know if that's contributing to my mood, but some days I still want to grieve and feel sad for everything that's happened.
It's less and less...and usually when I feel a bit under the weather...but I wanted to mention it because I think it's a part of recovery and inevitable to have occasional days of looking back and feeling sad.
It used to really bother me to feel this way but I accept it as normal now, to have a 'down day'.
I'm meeting friends for lunch and dinner so I'm sure there will be lots to cheer me up later!
So much has happened maybe sometimes I need a bit of assimilation-time!
~W
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Write,
Have a great time with your friends. Wishing your sad day behind you. seasons
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Dear Write,
Honestly, we all have down days, of that I feel sure.
And that is okay too.
I'm meeting friends for lunch and dinner so I'm sure there will be lots to cheer me up later!
Do so hope that you have, are enjoying, your time with your friends.
Thoughts of you,
Leah
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(((((((((((((((((Write))))))))))))))))))) Here's to Brighter Days, Write! Ami
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Write,
I can so relate, I go along for awhile thinking things are so much better and then it just hits me like a wallop in the stomach. It passes,but yeah still have those days.
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I wonder if occassinal normal bouts of the blues don't cause anxiety for you that things will just get darker, even when they aren't headed that way?
How do you tell the difference between normal mood swings and when your illness is coming back?
Do you have a care plan for when that happens?
Does it involve other people stepping in to help you get you back on track?
((((Write)))) Hoping you did find cheer in your friends and move right through the blues.
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One of the gifts of winter...the freedom to be melancholy.
love to you Write,
Hops
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I tend to have out of control mania, rather than depression which is easily treated with just a couple of a/d s- the a/d s quickly cause mania in fact.
Yes, i have a big care plan and support system if I get sick.
Don't think I am sick- I am sad.
Of course it's also grey and cold and damp....sad weather, unlike our usual tropical sun.
How do you tell the difference between normal mood swings and when your illness is coming back?
the overall pattern- particularly disturbed sleep pattern. There are little indicators personal to each person with bipolar and things likely to trigger illness ( journeys, overwork, stress, lacohol, cold meds etc )
My friends were fun but I wasn't in the mood really.
Work is the only comfort when I'm as Hops says melancholy- and enjoy it if it results in some poetry or a painting....
What the illness does not do which it used to- make it feel like the end of the world! My emotions are so strong, I am developing a sense of when they are out-of-proportion, much like managing a chronic pain condition & intellectualising it. But equally irritating to live with as it still hurts...and it feels somewhat disconnecting to tell yourself too often, 'just a feeling- ignore it.'
Hopefully it'll become something creative, then I won't see it as waste...
Thanks everyone.
~W
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Are you the same write that posted before? Are you a different person?
Thanks, I was just curious. I do not remember the other write ever posting in my threads. Sorry if my qeustion botheres you. Feel free to not answer if you do not want to.
God Bless!!!
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Are you the same write that posted before? Are you a different person?
Thanks, I was just curious. I do not remember the other write ever posting in my threads. Sorry if my qeustion botheres you. Feel free to not answer if you do not want to.
God Bless!!!
yes, I have been here on and off for a long time, more than 5 years I think?
There is no pattern to my posting other than if something catches my eye; I do make myself disappear when i think I am usign the computer too much- I want to do so much other stuff with my time too, and the computer seems compulsive to me. I'm easily distracted.
G_d bless you too!
~W
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Well, thank you for answering.