Roski,

What are you studying? I'm hoping to be able to get into graduate school. (Look Tomi, I must be doing better today - all week I've been thinking I was a fool to even think about that! And thanks for your kind words ).

Anyway, Roski, I'm glad to meet you. I think that having depression for a long time and not knowing it but being very good at coping with it is something that happens to a lot of people. I hope that you feel better soon. Delayed circadian rhythm disorder is also one of my problems. Just wondering, does your depression get worse in winter? Mine does. Sometimes there is a connection between delayed circadian rhythm and seasonal affective disorder. I started light therapy a few months ago, and the jury is still out on whether or not it actually helps the depression, but it did fix the sleep problems, which helps. Light therapy also normalized my monthly cycle, which was also running on a slower than usual schedule. I didn't expect that, but it makes sense. It's also supposed to work for PMS, which is related to advanced circadian rhythm disorder.

To just keep on doing things and not stop seems to be the key to getting through it - if we stop and wallow in it we don't get anywhere. There's a point where it gets really hard to do anything, but most of the time I can get things done if I have to. It might be harder and take longer and I might not be as happy with the quality of my work, but I can get it done. It sounds like maybe we have a lot in common. I hope you keep posting here - it's nice to meet you.

Wendy

<font color=green>"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible" Carl Jung</font color=green>