Sometimes I read a post and I feel compelled to offer a poem in response. I'm not sure if it's really a good idea, but:
Nothing Gold Can Stay by W.H. Auden
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
But spring returns the following year.
When I feel despair that my mood is slipping downward again (which it has started doing during the last month), I try to remind myself that it won't be forever.
I don't know if your mood change is related to the change of season, but unless you're on the equator, the days are rapidly growing either shorter or longer right now where you are. Both tend to cause depression to get worse in lots of people.
I have had my meds adjusted and have cut back my activity level a little and am trying to be sure that I don't skip meals. I'm viewing the next month or so as rough waters for my mood.
I hope that your mood blip won't last long. I just wanted to say, if you didn't know, that September-October and March-April are tough for people who are sensitive to the change in the length of daylight.
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