The last couple of days have not been great. The one good thing about the daily “What’s on TV” posts is that it gives me one thing to post that takes little thought. It was hard to get motivated to write anything else today, but I thought it would be better for me if I … More A Recipe for Bad Mental Health
My wife has decided she needs to go back to Kentucky to help her mom again. I mentioned in an earlier post that she had fallen and broken her arm. My wife went to check on her and help her out some after it happened. She felt bad when she left, Her mom has a … More More Hermit Life Begins Today
The three people who responded to my poll said I should post it so here is the first thing I wrote this morning. It’s dark and dreary outside. It will likely be this way for a couple of days. We have less daylight every day. I’m not getting enough sleep. There are various reasons for … More Dreary
I have had my laptop open for an hour. I’ve started and trashed several posts. I can’t seem to get the words out. I am only reading it fits and starts. It could be the book. It could be me. It could be both. I can’t settle my mind enough to do more than barely … More The Funk Continues
I’ve written before about what I call sudden onset melancholy. It is also one of the band names on my list. Those days when I’m just sad without a firm reason for the sadness. On those days, like today, it’s really hard to do much more than sit on the couch under a blanket and … More It’s Hard Sometimes
I discuss my struggle to write, read and even watch some TV right now. … More Brain Block
Yesterday, my therapist gave me a list of ways you can deal with distressing emotions until they pass. I was on board for all of them but one. Luckily, my therapist agreed. This way was comparison. There were two different types of comparison. One is to compare it to a time when you were in … More On Comparative Suffering
As I mentioned in a post last week, I started to hit lows in my mood midweek. The lows continued as the week went on, Any high I got from my volunteer work Thursday morning was wiped out by frustration during a situation Thursday afternoon. My lows in regards to my writing increased when the … More The Urge to Give Up
I feel like I started the week out on a high. Most of my therapy session Monday was focused on my successes from the week. I submitted work to a place that was not my own blog. I expect nothing from it, but it was a step. I started my volunteer doing weekly deliveries for … More On the Roller Coaster
I am now over a month past my last day at my job. I didn’t have to spend a lot of time adjusting to things at first. Two days after my last day both of my kids came home for the holidays. We then had Christmas and New Year’s to distract me. My son went … More Adjustment Anxiety
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