Yttrai: 1. Depression: 0
So, like most people with depression, sometimes you don't know you are depressed until after it starts to go away again. I spent a long time getting off my meds, and have no plans to get on them ever again. So i deal with it myself, which at my current level of mild (a vast improvement over severe, like i was about 3 years ago) only interferes with work and friends now and then.
It occurs to me that i had a little bout with it over the winter, and it's finally clearing up again.
How do i know that? Because i just had the BEST frakking day i've had in ages.
I've been overwhelmed and unproductive at work, not surprising, given i've been depressed. Normally, when it gets to be too much, i call in sick with a migraine. Sometimes i really have one. Sometimes i'm just too depressed to get out of bed. Then i surf and read and sleep all day, and go back the next day feeling about 1 % better than the day before, but able to function enough to get through until the weekend.
Today? I took a vacation day. Yesterday i decided i'd had enough working for a week and i told my boss i needed to burn a vacation day. I got up early, i ate breakfast and chatted (Hi FuFish!). I drove to the garden center and spent a little money. I dug up my entire garden, tilled the top layer, fertilized, and put in 5 delphinium, 5 hollyhock, 2 nanking cherry, 2 burning bush, 1 salvia, 2 hosta, about 10 solomon's seal, 10 spiderworts, a balloon flower, and something that was hiding under the daylilies that i have no idea what it is. I dug up about 15 lilac suckers and about 30 day lilies to share with the SO's mom, and watered everybody.
And i feel seven million times better than if i'd called in sick. I'm aching and my fingers are so tired i can barely type. And i'm going to have the best weekend EVAR.
Share with us, O Friend of Mine, your home remedies for kick starting your non-depressed life.
It occurs to me that i had a little bout with it over the winter, and it's finally clearing up again.
How do i know that? Because i just had the BEST frakking day i've had in ages.
I've been overwhelmed and unproductive at work, not surprising, given i've been depressed. Normally, when it gets to be too much, i call in sick with a migraine. Sometimes i really have one. Sometimes i'm just too depressed to get out of bed. Then i surf and read and sleep all day, and go back the next day feeling about 1 % better than the day before, but able to function enough to get through until the weekend.
Today? I took a vacation day. Yesterday i decided i'd had enough working for a week and i told my boss i needed to burn a vacation day. I got up early, i ate breakfast and chatted (Hi FuFish!). I drove to the garden center and spent a little money. I dug up my entire garden, tilled the top layer, fertilized, and put in 5 delphinium, 5 hollyhock, 2 nanking cherry, 2 burning bush, 1 salvia, 2 hosta, about 10 solomon's seal, 10 spiderworts, a balloon flower, and something that was hiding under the daylilies that i have no idea what it is. I dug up about 15 lilac suckers and about 30 day lilies to share with the SO's mom, and watered everybody.
And i feel seven million times better than if i'd called in sick. I'm aching and my fingers are so tired i can barely type. And i'm going to have the best weekend EVAR.
Share with us, O Friend of Mine, your home remedies for kick starting your non-depressed life.