The last time I posted, it was December of last year. This probably will sound like self-loathing and self-pity, as all are accustomed to here at LJ
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Great to hear you're alive!soul_journeySeptember 20 2008, 11:18:20 UTC
Trust me, its better than being dead, and insurance is a good thing! As someone who has had bad health most of their life, I can understand the downswing something like that can send you into. The thing you got to remember is if you don't push yourself too hard you can usually overcome the problem if you'll just go to the damn doctor and take their damn medicine.
I hope the chicka works out well for you, cause you deserve a good(or bad) girl who treats you right, and appreciates all the good things about you babe.
I have to admit, I'm not so great at the emotional walls thing. I have to be honest and say the only ones I have are to protect people from my temper, and as of late they haven't been holding up to sturdily. hehehe
Post more. I miss you.
No humor at your expense needed, just ....cheesecake..........
One of the biggest problems with constructing emotional fortresses is that we generally forget to include a door so that we can leave, and the walls become a part of our internal strata, so that we can't tell the difference.
Much of overcoming depression is a process of letting go of things. Much of what makes depression work is that we over-focus on things, we let specific items or thought processes take over our entire life, and we see everything through those things, rather than seeing things for themselves.
Learning to step back, and breath, and not hold on, takes an awful lot of work, and a lot of people never seem to get to it. But there you are.
Counseling can help, if you find the right person who can really get to who you are and how to help you figure out how to start letting go of things. It's an interpersonal communications issue as much as anything else.
When we spend our lives protecting ourselves, learning how to be open with other people (which is required for lasting relationships) becomes the hardest thing in the
If you don't have the option to see a counselor type (though they can be more affordable sometimes than you thought), try reading philosophy. It's funny how that can change your perspective, sometimes even without you realizing it, and the world looks a lot different that way. It's definitely helped me develop a more even keel.
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I hope the chicka works out well for you, cause you deserve a good(or bad) girl who treats you right, and appreciates all the good things about you babe.
I have to admit, I'm not so great at the emotional walls thing. I have to be honest and say the only ones I have are to protect people from my temper, and as of late they haven't been holding up to sturdily. hehehe
Post more. I miss you.
No humor at your expense needed, just ....cheesecake..........
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Much of overcoming depression is a process of letting go of things. Much of what makes depression work is that we over-focus on things, we let specific items or thought processes take over our entire life, and we see everything through those things, rather than seeing things for themselves.
Learning to step back, and breath, and not hold on, takes an awful lot of work, and a lot of people never seem to get to it. But there you are.
Counseling can help, if you find the right person who can really get to who you are and how to help you figure out how to start letting go of things. It's an interpersonal communications issue as much as anything else.
When we spend our lives protecting ourselves, learning how to be open with other people (which is required for lasting relationships) becomes the hardest thing in the
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