MS
glad you are doing better. Having a good day despite some frustrating things that happened. They were minor but in the past would have sent my mood into the toilet. I am using some of the tools I am learning and they are actually working!
Don't know if the tax advice helped or not but when I visited the local irs office they were really nice and helpful. I hadn't filed for years. Anyways, I know what a stressor that is so I hope you can make even a little bit of progress, that will help you feel a lot better even if take just a little step in the right direction. Baby steps. That is how I am having to live my life right now and it is working much better than looking at the whole huge overwhelming picture.
Good you got to spend some time outside, that always is good for you. We have been buried in snow and I have been playing in it a little with my four year old. It has been good.
Support circle for depression
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aworkinprogress
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I would love to be counted in on the depression support circle.
Briefly..I struggled with anxiety/panic attacks about 10 years ago and ordered this program. Once those ceased (about 3 weeks in) I stopped.
I ordered the new program (on cd) because now I am dealing with depression, which is completely new for me. I feel 100% disconnected from friends and family and numb to any sort of feeling at all.
I'm in my first week of the program and can use any support I can get.
Briefly..I struggled with anxiety/panic attacks about 10 years ago and ordered this program. Once those ceased (about 3 weeks in) I stopped.
I ordered the new program (on cd) because now I am dealing with depression, which is completely new for me. I feel 100% disconnected from friends and family and numb to any sort of feeling at all.
I'm in my first week of the program and can use any support I can get.
Glad you have joined our group. This my first time on this program, but I am having difficulty doing the sessions. I have depression and fou myself spiraling down. When I ordered this program, I had already waited too long. I went back top the doctor and am now on a new med called Pristen (I think that's how is spelled). Anyway I am doing much better after two weeks on it. The previous med did not work, if anything it made me worse.
I just became a Shaklee independent distributor and am taking their nutritional supplements. I'll let you know later how much they are helping. Happy New Year! I am here for you..Martisue
I just became a Shaklee independent distributor and am taking their nutritional supplements. I'll let you know later how much they are helping. Happy New Year! I am here for you..Martisue
HI!
I am having a hard time learning my way around, not a newbie on the computer but this seems different to me.
I just started the program,I am so nervous today even that was hard. Been sick with a cold while down I did a lot of thinking about things and had been thinking a long time about trying it.
I am going to read the book tonight and hope to start the year off right. My husband died 2 years ago and nothing has been the same since but I realise it is more than grief. It is a life time problem.
I hope we all do well with this.
Anne
I am having a hard time learning my way around, not a newbie on the computer but this seems different to me.
I just started the program,I am so nervous today even that was hard. Been sick with a cold while down I did a lot of thinking about things and had been thinking a long time about trying it.
I am going to read the book tonight and hope to start the year off right. My husband died 2 years ago and nothing has been the same since but I realise it is more than grief. It is a life time problem.
I hope we all do well with this.
Anne
Hi You all,
I haven't posted in a few days. Glad you are on something that is helping MS. ]
Remember we are not alone, we are all in the same boat. I understand the paralyzing depression and anxiety and trying to claw the way through the sludge just to get to the semblance of feeling something human.
I am glad we are all here. People seem to post here a couple of times and vacate for awhile. Hopefully we can get some people to stay and come regularly. I will try to be one of those people. I wish I could reach out and give you each a hug. It will get better for all of us, we just have to keep trying and support eachother. Let's not give up on ourselves or on eachother. Deal?
I haven't posted in a few days. Glad you are on something that is helping MS. ]
Remember we are not alone, we are all in the same boat. I understand the paralyzing depression and anxiety and trying to claw the way through the sludge just to get to the semblance of feeling something human.
I am glad we are all here. People seem to post here a couple of times and vacate for awhile. Hopefully we can get some people to stay and come regularly. I will try to be one of those people. I wish I could reach out and give you each a hug. It will get better for all of us, we just have to keep trying and support eachother. Let's not give up on ourselves or on eachother. Deal?
Happy New Year. I mean that sincerely, and send the best positive energy I own out to everyone here in hopes we find our way through 2009 with more skill and knowledge, and in doing that, we feel better. Life doesn’t get easier. Loved ones leave us. Loved ones die. Pets die. Relationships falter and fail. Money struggles are big for many, especially in this recession. And often our own health suffers. The opposite of all of these is true as well. Life is about opposites. What helps me the most is knowing, from my experience on this program, that where something is negative, it can always become positive. Not always easy, but for me, it has been possible.
Yesterday I spent much of New Year’s Day in an Emergency Room. A friend decided to get drunk to make his anxiety go away. He decided to do that last Saturday. Problem is, he decided to stay drunk for five days and nights, thinking eventually his anxiety would leave. The opposite happened, and he showed up at my house yesterday needing a ride to the hospital. The doctor who treated him was a survivor of an alcoholic father, and an alcoholic husband. She tried to talk my friend into entering a detox unit. He refused. She tried to convince him to spend a few days in a treatment facility. He refused. So she gave him a prescription which would help him stay calm for a week.
Artificial calm, out of a bottle.
He refused help. He accepted the pills.
Funny in a sad way. I bought my Combatting Stress and Depression Program program for him! He didn’t want to use it.
I did use it, and recovered from my depression.
I don’t use alcohol, and never did. I also never took drugs. So I don’t know what moves him to drink himself into a hospital ER.
I did feel enormously judgmental yesterday.
I even said some very negative things to him.
Today I am back practicing the parts of this program (which I graduated from a few months ago). I will have to keep practicing, and relearning some skills and tools, so that I can be as compassionate to people like my friend, as I have learned to be with myself.
I cannot help him. I tried. He refused. But I can continue helping myself. I can continue getting back up when I fall down.
Yesterday I spent much of New Year’s Day in an Emergency Room. A friend decided to get drunk to make his anxiety go away. He decided to do that last Saturday. Problem is, he decided to stay drunk for five days and nights, thinking eventually his anxiety would leave. The opposite happened, and he showed up at my house yesterday needing a ride to the hospital. The doctor who treated him was a survivor of an alcoholic father, and an alcoholic husband. She tried to talk my friend into entering a detox unit. He refused. She tried to convince him to spend a few days in a treatment facility. He refused. So she gave him a prescription which would help him stay calm for a week.
Artificial calm, out of a bottle.
He refused help. He accepted the pills.
Funny in a sad way. I bought my Combatting Stress and Depression Program program for him! He didn’t want to use it.
I did use it, and recovered from my depression.
I don’t use alcohol, and never did. I also never took drugs. So I don’t know what moves him to drink himself into a hospital ER.
I did feel enormously judgmental yesterday.
I even said some very negative things to him.
Today I am back practicing the parts of this program (which I graduated from a few months ago). I will have to keep practicing, and relearning some skills and tools, so that I can be as compassionate to people like my friend, as I have learned to be with myself.
I cannot help him. I tried. He refused. But I can continue helping myself. I can continue getting back up when I fall down.
Hi, I am new to the program. I need a support depression group and friends that understand that fighting depression is a uphill battle. I started with depression about 9 years ago after a terrible divorce which left me a single mom of an 11 year old son. He is in college now and it's really hard to be alone. I was so depressed this year that I lost my job and it took me 6 months to recover. I am on medication now and it helps me to function normally so I can get a job. But now I can't find a job because of the recession. I have been looking for 5 months. I need this group because it seems nobody understand how I feel if they have never suffered depression. Do many of you have the same problem with especially friends understanding. They think I am lazy! Maybe this program will finally be my cure! Thanks!
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Mary Wargo
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I've had to go over some skills and tools from the program yesterday also. I've had some pretty serious conversations and discussions with relatives and friends these past few days regarding health issues and money concerns. My mind was filled with all these conversations and issues when a neighbor phoned last night to wish me a happy new year. I couldn't switch gears fast enough and my conversation ended up to be so negative that this person will most probably think twice about calling again to wish me happy anything!
The positive side to this is that this self realization snapped me out of the negative dwelling cycle, and I will be phoning her to apologize. I don't think I would have seen all this in myself had I not worked this program. Today will be spent focusing on positives.
The positive side to this is that this self realization snapped me out of the negative dwelling cycle, and I will be phoning her to apologize. I don't think I would have seen all this in myself had I not worked this program. Today will be spent focusing on positives.
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Bakedpears
- Posts: 73
- Joined: Sat Aug 11, 2001 3:00 am
Happy New Year All!!
Hard to realize that 2 days of this new year is gone.
I had some depression, anxiety and anger this past week.
But it was not due to the fact that I will have a single mastectomy next Tuesday. Not at all.
It was due to some negativity of relatives. And a little pressure that they put on me.
Anyway, I'm over it now. But I did fail to use my tapes; my program. I just stewed and lost sleep and fretted and fumed. That is just not the way to handle things and I know it.
I am okay now. I am calm. But I did spout off to some others about my disappoints with relatives which I wish I hadn't done.
I realize now that my relatives were just worried about me. Because I did stay calm they felt that I didn't realize the seriousness of the surgery.
I wish that I had listened to the tapes and handled things a little better.
I am always glad when I get on here and read the posts and learn a lot from all of you.
I wish each of you the very best. Hope you are all making progress every day. And I believe that you are.
My best to each of you!!
MJ
Hard to realize that 2 days of this new year is gone.
I had some depression, anxiety and anger this past week.
But it was not due to the fact that I will have a single mastectomy next Tuesday. Not at all.
It was due to some negativity of relatives. And a little pressure that they put on me.
Anyway, I'm over it now. But I did fail to use my tapes; my program. I just stewed and lost sleep and fretted and fumed. That is just not the way to handle things and I know it.
I am okay now. I am calm. But I did spout off to some others about my disappoints with relatives which I wish I hadn't done.
I realize now that my relatives were just worried about me. Because I did stay calm they felt that I didn't realize the seriousness of the surgery.
I wish that I had listened to the tapes and handled things a little better.
I am always glad when I get on here and read the posts and learn a lot from all of you.
I wish each of you the very best. Hope you are all making progress every day. And I believe that you are.
My best to each of you!!
MJ
Good to see your post. A blessed New Year to you. I will be praying for you through your surgery and for your speedy recovery. The Lord will take care of you. I'm sure of that! He's brought me throught some tough times.
I'm having trouble sleeping, so I'm writing. I seem tense. tThis is my second night.
Just took something and I am waiting for it to start working. I don't want to stay up like I did last night.
I've got to get back to my lessons.
Glad you are all here for me, tto!
Martisue
I'm having trouble sleeping, so I'm writing. I seem tense. tThis is my second night.
Just took something and I am waiting for it to start working. I don't want to stay up like I did last night.
I've got to get back to my lessons.
Glad you are all here for me, tto!
Martisue