Paynful--

Happy belated birthday! Even though it was arduous, awful, and made you feel like crap? Making it through another year is something good, even when we don't realize it (I've had a couple of those myself...more than a couple!)

How you've noted that you would fix what was wrong if there was something tangible to fix? Isn't that one of the hallmarks of some folks' depression? The feeling that something is wrong/off/falling apart, but nothing to quite pinpoint? That drives me nutty, too, since it then becomes the depression and some of its other components that starts to be the situation that needs to be worked on, but that is super challenging...when your depression is at its worst.

I believe you can make the loving family that you want to be a part of, even though you don't feel like you are date-worthy right now. Just like potential partners might need to learn about our health issues, we might need to help them with theirs. Maybe they have diabetes? Or cancer. Or lupus. Or are in recovery. Think of the empathy that you might have for someone else's health or life circumstances because of your own.

Seems I've gone on a response rant of my own Please know you can always PM me if you need to touch base.

thinking of you
bookmadness