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Wow. Can i relate to the feelings of being useless. It is very frustrating that i cant even change my own bed, or clean my own bathroom, and that it is extremely difficut to step up into the tub to take a shower. Taking a shower, washing my hair, shaving my legs is a rarity.........like every few weeks. It takes so much out of me, it just isnt worth it. I so seldom every leave the house anyway, and live in jammies. One good thing is that i only have l load of laundry about every month or longer. But the depression is awful and overwhelming at times even though i take prozac twice a day. I am a disabled widow of 62, and now i am the oldest surviving person in my family .............and adult kids are busy and impatient with me, so i am quite lonely. I have aged so much recently and look 80, with paleness and dark circles under my eyes, and my skin is all wrinkly. I live in my bed most of the time and when i feel up to it, i do a little beadwork or knitting, but mostly i read Christian fiction books (eyes get so blurry easily though) which i enjoy, but i just wish my kids and grandkids would care more and sons who live here would keep the place up and cook more often.
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Good Morning���and it is a better one today for me because of the positive response from quite a few of you��� to my request for some feedback about blog content...including some of my personal experience ���" to can it, or continue it/". No one voted against it, and may I thank you for giving me an extra boost to my mood because of positive and helpful words. I have been fighting being "down" for a while since the Efforts "removal thing", I have seen many others go through it, like losing an entire family. It is called depression, but I don' t like to acknowledge that, I am of the school to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kick yourself in the behind and get over it.My extra long walk last Sunday didn' t work, yesterday I treadmilled 3 miles which helped a little..Well? With COPD it is almost a given fact-it isNORMAL to experience some depression. I did in my second year, when I was severely scared and feeling useless, defective and inadequate. I still don' t do much house cleaning. It/deep dip, has returned after 5 years. A big wave, and I decided to use some of my old leftover supply of celexa [I had used for 3 months in 2004]. A test to see if that helps me dig my way out. It is a mild 10 mg. I should call the counselor, and tell her what I am doing, although I did consult with a few therapists.4th attempt to print this...hope hope it works.
Weather is helping me, a sunny toasty day at 21 degrees for shoveling a foot of snow���brrrrrrrrrrrr..
For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and depression, treatment by a mental health professional appears to improve patient survival,hmm, looks like I will choose to help myself last longer.>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/590016