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Posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 10:24:02
I feel down & lonely & yukky.
My situation in life is not bad & I feel guilty about even 'complaining'. I'm not complaining really. Just reaching out for some support from people who might know what it feels like.
Kath
Posted by Poet on April 5, 2006, at 11:48:05
In reply to Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 10:24:02
Hi Kath,
I'm feeling down, too. I should be grateful I have a job- period and stop being depressed because I can't get the "right" job.
Wish I had some words to cheer you up. I'll save room for you under the rock I am crawling underneath to hide.
Poet
Posted by wildcard11 on April 5, 2006, at 13:25:43
In reply to Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 10:24:02
i'm sorry u feel bad right now...it will pass but it doesn't help how you're feeling now. you're in my thoughts ((((Kath))))
Posted by gardenergirl on April 5, 2006, at 14:10:19
In reply to Re: Feeling down............ » Kath, posted by wildcard11 on April 5, 2006, at 13:25:43
Ugh, it must be one of those phases. I've been doing better, but the last few days have been yucky. I don't have a lot of good explanations for it.
It will pass. Hopefully very soon for all of us. But in the meantime, we can just be all grubby under Poet's rock. Grubby, get it? :)
gg
Posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 17:08:56
In reply to Re: Feeling down............, posted by gardenergirl on April 5, 2006, at 14:10:19
Ok - we'll be 'grubby' under Poet's rock in the garden!
Kath
Posted by Phillipa on April 5, 2006, at 17:15:53
In reply to Re: Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 17:08:56
I always wanted to sleep under a rock? Love Phillipa
Posted by wildcard11 on April 5, 2006, at 17:20:35
In reply to Re: Feeling down............, posted by Poet on April 5, 2006, at 11:48:05
let's have a slumber party...
Posted by Jakeman on April 5, 2006, at 20:24:17
In reply to Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 10:24:02
I often turn to poetry or literature when I'm feeling bad. I think it helps me to see that someone else has been through it. This past weekend was like that. I picked up William Styron's book, "Darkness Visible"
He is describing how his depression came upon him.
"By now I had moved back to my house in Connecticut. It was October, and one of the features of this stage of my disorder was the way in which my old farmhouse, my beloved home for thirty years, took on for me at that point when my spirits regularly sank to their nadir, an almost palpable quality of ominousness. The fading eveing light-- akin to that famous "slant of light" of Emily Dickinson's which spoke to her of death, of chill extinction- had none of its familiar autumnal loveliness, but insnared me in a suffocating gloom.
I wondered how this friendly place, teeming with such memories of happiness could almost percepibly seem so hostile and forbidding. As always Rose was present and listening with her unflagging patience to my complaints. But I felt an immense and aching solitude. I could no longer concentrate during those afternoon hours, which for years had been my working time, and the acting of writing itself, became more and difficult and exhausting, stalled, then finally ceased.
There were also dreadful, pouncing seizures of anxiety. One bright day on a walk with my dog I heard a flock of Canada geese honking high above the trees with foliage; ordinally a sight and sound would have exhilarated me. The flight of birds caused me to stop, riveted with fear, aware for the first time that I had been stricken by a serious illnes.
Going home, I couldn't rid my mind of the line of Baudelaire's, dredged up from the distant past... "I have felt the winds of madness."
Styron is the author of Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner and numerous other books and screenplays.
~Jake
Posted by gardenergirl on April 6, 2006, at 0:21:42
In reply to Re: Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 17:08:56
Posted by NikkiT2 on April 6, 2006, at 3:54:20
In reply to Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 5, 2006, at 10:24:02
*hugs*
Spring is nearly here.. today is really springlike in the UK..
Its coming, I promise!
Nikki
Posted by Kath on April 6, 2006, at 8:16:07
In reply to Re: Feeling down............ » Kath, posted by wildcard11 on April 5, 2006, at 13:25:43
Thanks 'youse guys' for the support.
Last nite I dropped some things off at my son's (22) & his girlfriend answered the door. When I stepped in she said it wasn't the best time! There was broken glass; a chair overturned....
I gave her a big hug & likewise my son when he came downstairs. They asked if I'd drive them to the store for smokes. Took them out & they got a couple of movies also.Am doing pretty well about how unsettling that is, but it's another thing to add to my ennui - I don't know what that word means actually & I don't think it's the right one, but I love words & felt like using it ;-)
At least I can smile amidst my gloom.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Kath
PS Nikki - enjoy those flowers!!!!!! I hope we have some soon...we do have snowdrops & some crocuses xoxo
Posted by Deneb on April 6, 2006, at 19:56:37
In reply to Re: Feeling down............, posted by Kath on April 6, 2006, at 8:16:07
I'm glad you can smile. :-)
Deneb*
Posted by Kath on April 8, 2006, at 17:22:39
In reply to Re: Feeling down............, posted by Deneb on April 6, 2006, at 19:56:37
Thanks!
I'm not feeling dreadful, but when I feel down & especially if it lasts for days & it's always in the background, I start to feel anxious/scared that it won't go away!!!
I hope you have a pleasant weekend. :-) Kath
> I'm glad you can smile. :-)
>
> Deneb*
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