HI Bamboo


How are you doing Helen? Hope lifes treating you kind,

let us know how your doing


David

Hi Addy - nice to meet you too. Thank you for replying to my post. Yes i have had amazing support here - it was totally unexpected to be honest but it has helped alot!! - hence why i do keep coming back (that gut feeling ). Yeh i know that although i do have random ups and downs, it is often triggered by stress - and i have had a lot recently. Nothing in comparison to most people but i'm a worrier so it doesn't take much. Plus it has not helped that my flatmate has been basically saying that she's feeling down and horrid because i have not been around to help her. I know she doesn't mean it horribly, it is just a reaction to her own stress but it has really really hit me further down. So it has been a combination of that, work, other people's reactions to things, not being helped, not being on anti-depressants, feeling ill generally - and yeh i have got this chest infection because i have not had the resources to make myself better. So you are very right in what you say.

I have put some thought into your question - what makes me happy. And i'm coming up blank. I know what makes things better if that is the same thing? I have found that simple things like having my window open at night makes me feel more alive and actually calms me to sleep. I know that wearing a hat makes my vision smaller so i don't get so over-whelmed. Anyone else found that?? And i like sitting on my floor. I don't know the reason why for that. I sit on the floor next to a radiator with things (e.g. objects like wardrobes) very close to me and it calms me. These things dont make me happy but they make me - happier.

Thanks david, i'm.....fine. I had a bad night yesterday. I'm just trying to hold everything together right now. I get the feeling that quite a few people here are doing the same. How are you? Thank you so much for caring!

anyone around to chat?

Hi Bamboo

Glad your ok,,just remember to take each day as it comes.

At present i'm fine, i'm back on meds form September quite stable and reasonably cheerful.[they obviously work so i should in future refrain from stoping them Ooohps!!]

Dont forget You do matter in this World. Have a nice week stay in touch.

David