Way OT> Not feeling myself right now..

((((((hugs))))))) As someone who deals with depression and anxiety on a daily basis, I can sympathize and understand where you're coming from. Take care of yourself!!

Linda -- I'm moving away from mine. I think about you all the time with this situation.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

That IS winter, here.... Freezing, as far as I'm concerned. Have to wear turtlenecks and tights under the muumuus.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

if you've ever had more than one of these in your life, its an indicator that there's Work To Be Done inside. We pick what we pick for reasons we don't always know conciously, so that we can attempt to work on these issues....I've found that the right therapist can be VERY helpful in exploring those issues. Sarajane

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I hear you Harry and am sending light and hugs your way. Get outside (even if it's cold!) and move around in the winter sunshine. It helps - it really does.

Oh I know!!! It is so cold here today but there is a wonderful bright spot in the sky... it's called THE SUN... it's shinning and I love it. I also took some others advice and went outside... thanks but, I FROZE MY HINNY OFF!!!! LOL

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I took your advice and di go outside today in the sunshine! Can you believe it??? It is very cold and windy and I froze, but it somehow made me feel better.. or either that I was completely numb! lol Thank you, Harry

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But it might be the best thing possible . Getting away physically.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]But it might be the best thing possible . Getting away physically.

i've been doing this every weekend. it gives me the strength needed to get through the next week.

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(Jewelry) ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan

Sarajane -- I'm buying myself a new copy of "Women Who Love Too Much" (gave the last one to a friend 10 years ago) and moving to CA. LOL.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Love you, SJ. Nope, this is the only one. I allow him to keep me dangling. I must stop allowing myself to be manipulated by both him and my gut feeling that he is *the* one.

It's not easy but I'm a lot stronger than I was several years ago. I will get over him.

Linda2

Harry,

I sent private e-mail, but no response. Please e-mail me at

ariel at gate dot net and give me your proper e-mail addy.

Linda2

I am so sorry. There have been several people say they couldn't reach me. I have sent you an email and I hope I sent it right. :) Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at

There are "For Sale" signs up on some of the other "ranchos" near where Becki is going to be.... If "valued" like my father's, about $200K for 40 acres.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

I totally agree. Ott lighting makes me feel like there's daylight and sunshine - which tends to lift my mood a lot.

Well, it's no that easy for a lot of people. Often, people with SAD or any other depression have a really really hard time getting outside. It's incredibly debilitating. It's not that they don't know it will help - it's getting up the motivation to actually do it. At least that's what my therapist told me when I told her how hard it was for me to get out and enjoy the air. It was incredibly hard for me, and still is. Except when I was taking Celexa. Then it was easy - everything was. :)

Oh, yes, definitely. I was suicidal for about two years, until it got so bad that I was forced by loved ones to see a psychiatrist. I got therapy, and I got medication. Things got so much better when I was able to remove myself from some stress, and got to taking the right medication. I don't take it now, because things are so much better, but I still have depression and anxiety - it's just not as severe as it once was. I made some major life changes, though, and it wasn't easy. But it helped a lot. Taking that first step (or being "guided") to getting help was the most difficult thing in the world for me. Being depressed makes you want to isolate yourself completely, and you feel terrible about that all the time. You feel like nothing will ever make you feel better. But there is light at the end of that tunnel, if you can just learn how to get there.

Oh, I know very well how hard it is to do anything. Almost enough to make me wish the plumbing would freeze. That will definitely get me outside -- to the outhouse. (No, no, I'm kidding. Don't freeze my plumbing. Pleeeeeze.)

When I say go outside, I don't mean a walk, but even just stepping outside. I go out and put bird feed out for the birds. Or get oxygen with deep breathing. And I used to bead on the floor, before marrying a man with a dog, which is good exercise (getting up to get parts I forgot).

Bottom line for me is prioritizing and pacing.

Tina

This will help me a bunch. Thanks.

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