Emotions and illness
I've had a very strange fortnight. 2 weeks ago I was feeling tired and drained. I put this down to a low-level illness, similar to one that jm-horse had the previous week.
The oddness started the following week. At work, on Tuesday or Wednesday, I developed a nasty headache, maybe even a migraine (flecks in vision, nausea). 2 hours later, I suddenly became quite sad for no reason. This persisted over the next week.
I'm not normally prone to depression, and while suffering these bouts I knew that the feeling was physiological, not emotional in cause. Having said that, it doesn't make it any more pleasant.
I used some rudimentary meditation to clear the emotions away from myself. I wasn't feeling sorry for myself, just sad, so it was relatively easy to force the feeling away for an hour or two at a time.
I seem to have recovered on Friday and am back to myself. I really hope that I never suffer through anything like that again, it's not pleasant at all, especially the feeling of not being in control of you own mind. I wonder if this is what clinically depressed people suffer through all the time.
The oddness started the following week. At work, on Tuesday or Wednesday, I developed a nasty headache, maybe even a migraine (flecks in vision, nausea). 2 hours later, I suddenly became quite sad for no reason. This persisted over the next week.
I'm not normally prone to depression, and while suffering these bouts I knew that the feeling was physiological, not emotional in cause. Having said that, it doesn't make it any more pleasant.
I used some rudimentary meditation to clear the emotions away from myself. I wasn't feeling sorry for myself, just sad, so it was relatively easy to force the feeling away for an hour or two at a time.
I seem to have recovered on Friday and am back to myself. I really hope that I never suffer through anything like that again, it's not pleasant at all, especially the feeling of not being in control of you own mind. I wonder if this is what clinically depressed people suffer through all the time.