This post actually follows a thread I started about four entries ago….
Surviving a Terrible Down Swing
I got very hypomanic yesterday. I wrote about it earlier and wrote a newsletter about it. Of course, it’s very easy to write when you’re hypomanic. But when it was going on, I could tell it was going to spin out [...]
I woke up depressed and stressed….
I woke up and felt a cascade of negative thoughts. There was a song going over and over in my head. I felt doubts about my latest book deal. When I poured milk on my cereal, my brain started counting the way the milk came out of the container. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-
I’ve [...]
I have a new plan when I wake up in the morning.
I often wake up depressed, so these days I say to myself:
What do I want to accomplish today? (Work on my book proposal)
What do I need to do to reach that goal? (Go to the library and work on it!)
What is my financial goal [...]
I woke up depressed- nothing new unfortunately. I knew it was going to be a tough morning- but it doesn’t have to be a tough day!
Then I turned on the TV and saw Barak Obama being sworn in as President. I felt such happiness. No matter what a person feels politically, I think that seeing [...]
Hi, I’m currently in Texas where it is sunny. I wrote the blog below before I left. Oh! It can be so hard to live in the Pacific Northwest where it often gets dark at 4PM!
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Hello! Here is a link to a PDF file of my article on managing seasonal affective disorder. As I write [...]
Well, it’s always a challenge to know when to be honest and when to be sort of honest or when to lie!
I’m refereing to how I tell people if I’m depressed. It really depends on a lot of things. How is the person I’m talking to doing? Do they need to hear what I’m going [...]
It can be really overwhelming to pay bills when you’re not doing well. I swear, so many of my ideas in Get it Done When You’re Depressed have to do with the little things- cleaning a house, making lunches for kids, finishing a project, paying bills, exercising, getting out of [...]
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