The last few weeks are catching up with me. Between working 7 days in a row, then flying to Chicago, coming back and working another 7 in a row, I am slowing down just a little bit. For example, my legs felt it when we walked the dog yesterday evening. Our property has many hills and they usually do not bother me. Last night, it felt like someone was pulling on my legs, … [Read more...] about Are these really early warning signs?
WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
Is this a new trigger signaling a relapse or am I just messy?
I have never seen it so cluttered. A pile here, a stack there, each item placed in its final resting place with intention. This is not the work of a vandal “tossing the place looking for anything of value,†this is the work of someone with a plan. A plan with the best of intentions, but with no deadline or action component built into the … [Read more...] about Is this a new trigger signaling a relapse or am I just messy?
It wasn’t me this time – Road Rage Part IIII
The car was close behind me for a while. In front of me was a tractor trailer. The road is two-lane, but it has a center line to alert drivers when it is ok to pass and when drivers should refrain from passing. For the past few miles, the road has been wiggly and there has been oncoming traffic. Then the oncoming traffic eased, and a short section of passing opened on … [Read more...] about It wasn’t me this time – Road Rage Part IIII
101 ideal activities for my new life with depression
As I make progress and hash out some of the underlying issues that have caused my depression to intensify at different times in my life, I am beginning to see the value of visualizing my new future. I asked for professional medical attention 5 months ago because I have lost my focus. I could NOT see any way forward. I was up against the wall and could not see the … [Read more...] about 101 ideal activities for my new life with depression
Why Did I Think that? I Thought I Was Getting Better.
Why do I suddenly feel the need to explain myself? I am almost five months out from my hospital stay for depression. That is almost five months of living with depression, of saying the word depression out loud, and keeping depression out in the open where I can see it. As I wrote the sentence about being out of the hospital for almost five months, I suddenly felt I … [Read more...] about Why Did I Think that? I Thought I Was Getting Better.
