Hi Lee and Everyone,
Do you sometimes feel like you are screaming into the wind and no one can hear you? Depression can feel like that at times. We want people to understand how we are feeling and yet don't know how to connect with people to let them know.
It can feel like no one cares, that is when I have to take a step back and work out how I can help myself and how I might be able to make someone else's day better.
I've been stuck at home with a moon boot on my foot and can only get out when my husband is able to drive me. I am sitting here thinking no one is calling me. Have I called anyone? Only a couple of people. Today I am going to telephone a couple of people, not text them, not send emails, actually phone them and talk to them.
Our mental health issues can help to create a world in our minds where we feel so alone and lonely. Some days I get that and can use strategies and plans to work around it and have an okay kind of day.
Other days I just have the blues and that is okay as well. I don't like it, it happens. It is what it is and I can try and make it different by getting involved with something even if it is just sitting outside in the sun listening for birds.
This forum is a wonderful place to connect with people and to form on line bonds. I try to balance it out with connections in the real world.
One thing with this forum, some people are here for a fleeting moment, some stay for years, we all do our own thing and have our own needs. Some days when I am feeling a little blue I drop in to the Social Zone to see what is happening there.
Wishing you a day where you have insight into little things that will help you through the day.
Cheers from Dools
