Stress Center Peer Support

I know that the last post here was quite a long time ago.
I have absolutely been going through this every single day recently.
The questions I ask are these:
Who Am I ?
What Is My Purpose ?

I suffer from depression so very little things bring me joy.
I am trying to bring joy back into my life.

I ...

I have not had a cup of coffee in 2 1/2 months.
I gave up candy 2 1/2 months ago too.
I recently had a psychiatrist visit and he asked me
about coffee and sugar during our visit.
I don't drink sodas because I have never been a soda
drinker. Today I DID drink some iced tea.
I gave up candy, but that ...

I have found another reason for excessive weight loss.....

Ulcerative Colitis. I have had Ulcerative Colitis for 17 years

but was not diagnosed until 2006. Back in 2006 I HAD lost

60 pounds due to mental health issues alone.

But the past three months I have been extremely

CONSTIPATED instead of ...

I have just started participating in a website

for Crohn's and Colitis and each time I log on

I find out some more information about the disease

that I never knew about.

www.crohnsforum.com

Check it out. I hope I got the website address right.

Lynda

It has been a couple of years since I posted here.
In 2012 I had no health insurance and my Unemployment
Benefits expired. I had to stop taking my psychiatric
medications because I could no longer afford them.
My sister was supporting me financially for about 9 months.
The year 2012 really sucked ...

My doctor raised my dose of my thyroid medication

just recently. Recently I had a thyroid ultrasound.

The ultrasound showed that one of my three thyroid

nodules was growing. I had to have a needle biopsy

of that growing thyroid to get cells from that thyroid

nodule. The tests came back ...

I was hospitalized last year and I am still trying to find joy in my life.
The only thing that I enjoyed before my hospitalization my watching basketball games on television. I did continue doing this during the entire recent basketball season.
I watched almost every game that my team played.
But ...

Mark: I know that your post was in May and it is July now, but I thought I would write anyhow.

I was just thinking about this. Do you have physical disabilities that could add to your depression ?
Sometimes physical health issues go hand-in-hand with mental health issues. One seems to lead to ...

There is a documentary that just came out called "Fed Up".
I have not had a chance to see the documentary yet, but I have
heard some information about it on the Internet.
They say that 80% of the food sold in the grocery store has sugar ADDED to it.
I tried the "Fed Up" challenge in May and it was ...

I know that these posts are old, but they sure have opened up my eyes
about thyroid issues. I just started taking thyroid medication and I am
going through menopause and I have MANY physical health issues in
addition to depression and anxiety. I have arthritis and colitis and
physical pain, and ...