Daily check in thread: Ups & Downs #31

Rose76 · Dec 28, 2022 at 07:03 PM

I have to go to pick up a prescription, and I just dread leaving the house. I do not have agoraphobia. Normally, I love running errands and being out and about. But I've been kind of down and blue. I haven't left my apartment since Xmas eve . . . and I don't want to leave it. It's crazy, and I hate being like this. I just have to do it.

Usually an episode of depression blows over pretty soon, but this is hanging on.

Breaking Dawn · Dec 28, 2022 at 07:11 PM

It's been pretty rough lately. Oh, well.

Buffy01 · Dec 28, 2022 at 08:28 PM

I been feeling really awful and I have been trying to change the ways that I think about myself.

Rosi700 · Dec 29, 2022 at 03:29 PM

I was up early and worked for hours to prepare for my guests. I fixed everything I had planned to fix right in time. The guests were satisfied, and so was I.

I felt so down until a few weeks ago, and now I seem to be okay.

I have had no change in medication. The only thing I have done for myself these weeks have been measuring my progress on chosen items in my daily life and used my knowledge about that I have little energy in the winter months. That means I have bought "heat up pre-made dinners" every day since I started my measurement period. Even if it costs more, it has been well worth it. With the dinners pre-made I could use my inner strength to focus on simple things like lay the table, fill dishwasher and other easy things.

When one chose to use an app, the app reinforce "good behavior" and one becomes more and more eager to want to make it. As an example it has become more and more easy to jump up after dinner to put the dirty plate in the dishwasher. This has been reinforced by the use of the app, I suppose.

I want to give myself a reward for making it today.

I hope the success will continue

. A little setback now and then is alright as long as it doesn't last for many days in a row ... (By the way. There has been one more thing I have used: affirmations. "I can do this!")

will19 · Dec 29, 2022 at 04:55 PM

A long and draggy day. This morning at 6 AM I did my laundry. I thought it was insane of me to do it that early. I didn't have anything else I had to do after the laundry was done, so I had the whole day that I could have done it. I've been in the habit of doing the laundry that early. At least no one else were using the machines at that time, so that was nice. Those long draggy days get me down.

Rose76 · Dec 29, 2022 at 10:33 PM

I'm better today that I was yesterday. It's a start.

Rosi700 · Dec 30, 2022 at 03:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rose76

I'm better today that I was yesterday. It's a start.

Hope that your start will grow (slowly, but forward).

Buffy01 · Dec 30, 2022 at 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Rosi700

I was up early and worked for hours to prepare for my guests. I fixed everything I had planned to fix right in time. The guests were satisfied, and so was I.

I felt so down until a few weeks ago, and now I seem to be okay.

I have had no change in medication. The only thing I have done for myself these weeks have been measuring my progress on chosen items in my daily life and used my knowledge about that I have little energy in the winter months. That means I have bought "heat up pre-made dinners" every day since I started my measurement period. Even if it costs more, it has been well worth it. With the dinners pre-made I could use my inner strength to focus on simple things like lay the table, fill dishwasher and other easy things.

When one chose to use an app, the app reinforce "good behavior" and one becomes more and more eager to want to make it. As an example it has become more and more easy to jump up after dinner to put the dirty plate in the dishwasher. This has been reinforced by the use of the app, I suppose.

I want to give myself a reward for making it today.

I hope the success will continue

. A little setback now and then is alright as long as it doesn't last for many days in a row ... (By the way. There has been one more thing I have used: affirmations. "I can do this!")

Sounds amazing

Buffy01 · Dec 30, 2022 at 01:22 PM

I need to get of being depressed all the time.

Rosi700 · Dec 30, 2022 at 03:17 PM

Tomorrow is the last day of 2022 and at midnight 2023 begins.

I have no plans for tomorrow other then to stay in my own company. I think it will be good for me to have the opportunity to think through how this year was and how I want my life to become in 2023. May be I'll read a book or perhaps I will watch television.

I have food and drink in the house, so nutition will be okay!

I do not dread being alone tomorrow and I look foward to a whole New Year with new opertunities.

will19 · Dec 30, 2022 at 07:48 PM

Like usual, I felt alright this morning after breakfast. I went grocery shopping and much to my surprise it wasn't crowded like a week ago. So that was nice. i felt depressed this afternoon. I didn't do much and it was gloomy and wet outside. What's worse with my depression is that, lately, I'm coming across people who are reminding me that I've been doing my life all wrong. And, somehow, they've done it better than I have.

Rosi700 · Dec 31, 2022 at 05:21 AM

Ohhh, pain in head, neck and one upper arm. Well, so it is. Life has its nuances...

I will take paracetamol and lay down at my sofa. Hope I will become better later this day.

Buffy01 · Dec 31, 2022 at 09:28 AM

I have been going emotionally numb and my sister said I come off as being rude. I have to much emotional pain than I can go through.

Buffy01 · Dec 31, 2022 at 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rosi700

Ohhh, pain in head, neck and one upper arm. Well, so it is. Life has its nuances...

I will take paracetamol and lay down at my sofa. Hope I will become better later this day.

I’m so sorry. I hope the pain ease up.

Rosi700 · Dec 31, 2022 at 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buffy01

I’m so sorry. I hope the pain ease up.

I have been sick the whole day, so far! Pain in my head, muscles all over the body. I have even problems with my stomach.

What a way to end the year ... and probably begin the new year. So it is. It is what it is and I cannot change it.

But may be the best one can do when one cannot do anything is to lean back and flow with the flow, rest in the now and step into a new "now" when that comes.

When the evening comes, I think I will take paracetamol again and hopefully sleep through the whole fireworks.

Daily check in thread: Ups & Downs #31

will19 · Dec 31, 2022 at 05:40 PM

I cleaned this morning. For some reason, doing it this morning didn't feel the same as before. I felt like some kind of joy I always had in doing it was taken out. I don't know why. Nothing much else to report about. I'm not doing anything tonight except to watch a movie, which I hope will be good. I'm OK about not going out on NYE.

Rose76 · Dec 31, 2022 at 08:52 PM

Happy New Years, Everyone!

Breaking Dawn · Dec 31, 2022 at 10:04 PM

Indeed, Happy New Year, everyone!

T4bbyCat · Jan 01, 2023 at 04:40 AM

Amazing if I'm the first of 2023! Best wishes to everyone in finding a solution to this.

As usual, even if I'm invited to someone's place, they all sleep through the countdown (and the hours beforehand). But at least they seemed to think I'd be a part of it (which I'm not)!

Nonetheless, the clock runs out every day on all our problems, one way or another. And that's the real countdown I care about (FWIW).

Rosi700 · Jan 01, 2023 at 06:42 AM

I slept trhrough it all! Woke up early, ate and went to bed again.

I feel better today, so we can say that I have begun the new year "on the go", slowly on my way to a good life.

I wish that we all find good ways to cope with our depressions in this fresh New Year!

Happy 2023!

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Breaking Dawn Legendary Member Since Sep 2019 Location: USA Posts: 16,689 (SuperPoster!) 4 42.2k hugs given	Dec 28, 2022 at 07:11 PM #462 It's been pretty rough lately. Oh, well. __________________ "Every moment is a fresh beginning." (T. S. Eliot) "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."(Robert H. Schiuller) * * * * * *

Rose76 Legendary Member Since Mar 2011 Location: USA Posts: 12,433 (SuperPoster!) 13 5,341 hugs given	Dec 29, 2022 at 10:33 PM #466 I'm better today that I was yesterday. It's a start.

Rosi700 Grand Member Member Since Nov 2022 Location: Overseas Posts: 757 1 2,850 hugs given	Dec 31, 2022 at 05:21 AM #472 Ohhh, pain in head, neck and one upper arm. Well, so it is. Life has its nuances... I will take paracetamol and lay down at my sofa. Hope I will become better later this day. __________________ There is always hope ...

will19 Grand Magnate Member Since Oct 2012 Posts: 3,620 11 1,105 hugs given	Dec 31, 2022 at 05:40 PM #476 I cleaned this morning. For some reason, doing it this morning didn't feel the same as before. I felt like some kind of joy I always had in doing it was taken out. I don't know why. Nothing much else to report about. I'm not doing anything tonight except to watch a movie, which I hope will be good. I'm OK about not going out on NYE.

Rose76 Legendary Member Since Mar 2011 Location: USA Posts: 12,433 (SuperPoster!) 13 5,341 hugs given	Dec 31, 2022 at 08:52 PM #477 Happy New Years, Everyone!

Breaking Dawn Legendary Member Since Sep 2019 Location: USA Posts: 16,689 (SuperPoster!) 4 42.2k hugs given	Dec 31, 2022 at 10:04 PM #478 Indeed, Happy New Year, everyone! __________________ "Every moment is a fresh beginning." (T. S. Eliot) "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."(Robert H. Schiuller) * * * * * *

Rosi700 Grand Member Member Since Nov 2022 Location: Overseas Posts: 757 1 2,850 hugs given	Jan 01, 2023 at 06:42 AM #480 I slept trhrough it all! Woke up early, ate and went to bed again. I feel better today, so we can say that I have begun the new year "on the go", slowly on my way to a good life. I wish that we all find good ways to cope with our depressions in this fresh New Year! Happy 2023! __________________ There is always hope ...