@Rosi700 - I welcome your input and suggestions. I like that you take responsibility for self-care. With chronically recurring depression, one can fall into a habit of bewailing one's unhappiness and not looking to what needs doing for life to be better. It's find to simply vent now and then. Then it's necessary to do something to make life better. Everyone has to cope with hardship and disappointment. I can't say my life is harder than the next person's. It's not.

I would love to be someone who jumps out of bed in the a.m. For me that's a toughy. I think of buying a programmable coffee brewer that will have a caffeine eye opener ready for me at a preset time. I used to leave a loud electric alarm clock in the kitchen. To turn it off, I'ld have to get out of bed and walk to the kitchen. I have to find a way to trick myself. I'll keep working on it.

I did get the haircut last eve. Now I'm about to cook a pot of chili, which I'll really enjoy. I looked at some pretty daily journal books, and I might buy one. I'ld love to get a small dog. But I woukd have no one to dog sit, if I had to go to the hospital, which happened 3 times in '22.

I like hearing about your daily routine - like getting right up out of bed when the alarm goes off. I may challenge myself to give that a shot.

I hope you are working your way through the difficult spell you recently were having. I know how that goes. Can be tough.