How are you feeling today?

[Pip]

Feeling exhausted physically and emotionally as I kept busy up until Christmas Day but couldn't avoid emotional issues since then.  In a way I'll be glad when I can chuck myself back into doing after the New Year.

[Sweetpea]

 %^% Pip.

S x x x x

[Aspirer]

I've kept myself busy today with work. As long as it doesn't get too stressful, going to work takes a lot off my mind and gives me the opportunity to talk to people which always helps.

[Leo]

I'm tired, completely self inflicted.

[Sleepyjay]

Sleep, sore throat and coughing, wake up and round and round...can't shift this chest infection ...wish new year was gone and jan and feb.

[nocaph]

I can't get off my bed since I've managed to pick up the flu... (thanks to my GP for refusing me a flu jab because I'm not officially on the at-risk register yet).  So my peak flow's already dropped by a further 130, and everything hurts.  It's a good job I'm armed to the teeth with my own personal bedroom pharmacy.  So, not in the best mood.

[Sleepyjay]

Sympathies Nocaph, flu is nasty and when you have had it you realise a boring cold like I've got is not even in the same league.

I mostly hate Sundays so I'm gonna hide today and escape into a marathon DVD session with my Paracetomol.

[Ohdaddy]

Feeling down these last few days.  Some minor setbacks and those small irritating things that happen have taken over and prey on my mind. I keep thinking about the dent I put in the car, my lack of work, unsatisfactory progress in my divorce financial settlement, the house I wanted to buy has sold  and now a single female friend I had a bit of a "thing" for appears to have met someone else (or at least I have convinced myself that she has). Boredom has a lot to do with it to - stuck here at home with not much to do.

I'm sure I'm not the only one at the moment.  I keep telling myself that things will be OK but I still worry about them. &*&

[hippychick49]

Anxious. I have been feeling good but had a couple of wobbles today at work.

[Catbrian]

yer, daddy, sometimes it's difficult not to worry and it does sound like you have a lot on your plate

Hippy, hope you're evening feels better

I'm feeling fragile

[Ohdaddy]

I seem to have gone back to feeling "not good" in the mornings and better later on.  Its the apathy and the feelings of helplessness that are the worse.  Carry on I suppose. 

How is Catb this morning?

[Leo]

Irritable today.

[Catbrian]

Cat's doing not too bad today.  Everything feels very bland and takes a little too much effort, but I expect most of us feel this way.

In "Shoot the Damn Dog", the Author very rightly states that when a depressive says they feel a bit down or low, it usually means they are in deep dark despair.  We tend to underplay our true feelings.  I've tried to think why we do this and I suppose it might be from fear of sounding too "depressing" all of the time.  The truth of the matter is, it is tiresome, both to listen too and, more so, to live through.

[Leo]

Suicidal.  &*&

[Wallow]

Leo, I'm sorry to hear you are feeling so bad today. Has anything triggered your decline in mood? Have you been able to talk to anyone about how low you are feeling? Thinking of your suffering & hope you are safe xx