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It's so hard just to keep up pretenses everyday
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It feels like effort to do anything..Everything I do blows up in my face, and to what end? It's so hard just to keep up pretenses everyday.
GA
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Hi GA
Yours was a short, but not so sweet post from a couple of days ago. They must be having some issues with things in dark depths of the BB computer system.
Speaking of dark depths, how are you travelling now? Tis now Monday where I am and I hope that you managed to get through the weekend ok?
Would love to hear back from you.
Neil
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Hi Neil,
I'm still here. Sad as it is, that's probably the most positive thing I can say. I am not any worse but I don't see a way of getting better.
GA
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Hi Girl_Anachronism.
Probably the biggest impact on my daily life from Depression and Anxiety is the completely exhausting toll it can take. The exhaustion and frustration do not really seem to go away. While I am in a similar place to you Girl, and not sure if I can suggest anything that will help, but if it gives some solace no matter what happens, at the end of each day I try and reset and start again. Every day I end up still alive gives me some hope that at least the next day is better. And I try and remember the phrase "Sleep Brings Release, and the Hope of a New Day".
It doesnt necessarily give me any more energy or motivation, but have been able to get this far after 20 years (still alive at least). No matter how far and hard I fall, I eventually manage to get back up. Try and give yourself a break or treat yourself if you can. Doesnt matter how big or small. Look after yourself.
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It used to be that days would slightly varying degrees of worse or better and I would know when I woke up whether it would be good or bad. This was an improvement from 4 moods in a day and not knowing what note the day will end on.
These past three days though, every morning I have woken up with the same low mood and I can't even cry because all I feel is numb. Even when I can hear the whisper of black moods (or even happy ones, not that they have occurred recently) I don't experience the emotion. I just hear the whispers and realise there is something terribly wrong with me.
It's not four moods in a day and it is stable but I'd prefer to feel something, not to be trapped behind this numbness like being stranded in a field of dead flowers.
GA
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Hi GA
Thinking of you.
Pls take care
Jo xxx
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dear GA, I posted a rather compassionate reply to ?, sorry can't remember, but it was not printed, as I don't believe it would have failed the sobriety test from BB, but not to worry, that's life.
What it was is that I asked my psychologist of 20 years, maybe longer than some marriages, if she had suffered from depression, because I only wanted someone who had been through the awful paces that depression gives to us, and her answer was yes, for several years, so that made me feel at home, because she knew what depression actually means, and not just by a text book.
Text books only can describe what this illness is all about but there are so many anomalies that really happen in true life, they can never ever put someone into a false feeling of depression, that's impossible.
Week after week I would go to my appointment feeling awful, crying heaps, and just wanted the magic answer for the cure to this disease, and each time I left she always said that it will get better, but I never believed how this could ever happen.
Month by month, year by year, no change, or maybe there was something, I got worse, but she was determined to crack me, that was her goal, it was a challenge for her, she had to know where she could break me and persevered, and like we all think that our psych believes we are their favourite, which is a good feeling for us.
I will continue this post as I want you to absorb what I have written to you and all the others who read it as well. L Geoff. x
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I know this isn't going to go up until tomorrow with the new system, butI just wanted to say thnakyou. All these people say things will get better, I just wish I could make myself believe them. I wish I could make myself feel anything but this hopelessness right now.
Also that post was on the thread I posted when this one didn't go through. I figured I'd let that thread die and keep on with this one instead.
GA.
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Hi GA
I hope you went "ok" over the weekend.
Kind regards
Neil
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