RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support
January 20, 2012 at 10:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2012 at 10:23 pm by Shell B.)
(January 20, 2012 at 2:16 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Maybe it's the season. I don't know. I recognize old patterns of insomnia and somnolence, isolation and loneliness. Don't know what to make of it, and don't have much else to say.
Winter is often the worst. Is it winter where you are?
DP, thank you for sharing that. I'm very sorry for all of your burdens and worries. I know this sounds like a cracker to quench your thirst, but here is the thing that worked best for me in my most difficult times. There will always be at least one good day to look forward to. When that comes, there will be another. There will be a lot of shitty days in-between. However, if you give up during a shitty snap, that will be the last of your time here. You will miss those good days. The potential to feel happiness, which is so much more profound than sadness when you think about it, will be gone forever. I realize that sounds like hokum, but it is fucking true. Live for those happy moments. Count them. Take notice of them. Obsess over them. Pick them apart piece by piece, if you have to. Just don't forget about them or diminish their worth by disregarding them. Find something to laugh at. Find solace in the fact that financial burdens aren't really that heavy. What is the worst that can happen? You lose your stuff and your money? Well, then you can go on government-funded health care, which isn't that bad. You can live in a small place, completely unburdened by the material possessions (condo) that were weighing you down. You can spend your days laughing with your wife when you can, instead of trying to sell a hunk of wood and metal which has a material worth arbitrarily assigned by lawmakers and financial idiots. You could even live somewhat like a monk, which I am sure sounds pleasing with what you are dealing with! The best of luck to you. Oh, and sometimes it helps to get angry instead of sad. Get angry and then go to the gym and wait for someone to fall off a treadmill. Then, laugh.
Napo, the above advice might work for you too. Feel better, dude.
