Downside to getting better

For me, when I am sinking I begin to try to fill the hole to make myself feel better. This last time, I was trying to fill it by renovating rooms in the house! I kept thinking, if this room just looks better I will feel better in it. Then I would obsess about every detail to make it perfect. But then, I am so overwhelmed with it all, I cant DO anything.

Well I am about halfway through the living room and have paint swatches all over the bedroom wall. But now that the depression is lifting, the interior redecorating doesn't seem as DIRE, but now I am left with these half finished rooms!

One task at a time, no more than two hours in duration. One room at a time. Get out of the house when it gets to you. If you can, get a friend to help---put on music, make it a laugh and a dance -----give yourself time. It is OK

I'm glad the depression has lifted a bit, whatever the effects on your interior decorating.

All good things take time. You are really re-decorating your life. And the result will be awesome.

Thanks guys.

We remodeled the kitchen in March and it is awesome. Then we moved on to the living room, new furniture and all. Still have a bunch to finish. My bedroom walls are a darkish beige and one wall is a dark red, and my bedroom has no window, just the window in the attached bath (which is great when I have a migraine, I get a completely dark room) but the dark walls were making me- Actually, let me rephrase that, I THOUGHT that it was the dark walls that were making me feel depressed, actually, it was depression that was making me depressed, not the walls! LOL! But I started painting the a pale offwhite to lighten the room.

I like the 2 hrs at a time rule. Great suggestion.