Hi Sandyweb,

I'm with you on this. Ozzie has said some wise things and I agree with her about the strategies. One good one is the meditation.

This has helped me through some hard times. The key aim in Buddhist meditation is not to get dragged up and down too much by mood changes or the fear of mood changes. The Buddhists say it is the fear that makes the suffering. Some therapies are based on this, including CBT therapy.

One meditation that I do is to think of myself as a big old rock on the seashore. I imagine the tide coming in and out, the waves breaking, and the wind and the weather, the clouds and then the sun coming out. But whatever happens, I am unmoved as I am bedded into the hard granite below the sea, and I do not move, I remain. I may be in the sunshine or submerged under the high tide, but I am the same rock through it all.

It's only a meditation, but it has helped when I felt particularly submerged.

I hope it gets easier for you.

Good luck, Myzen

PS - I've just noticed your quote 'On the edge of the ocean'. That's an amazing coincidence, as I had posted before I noticed it.