struggling

I’ve got a stinking head cold and I really don’t feel well. The house is (as always) a tip, and it’s getting me down – I did laundry and folded it up and so on and when the children went to get ready they threw it around in crumpled heaps and left it for me to find. I’ve just spoken to them both about it and neither seems to think there is any problem with this, so I’ve obviously done something very wrong as far as that goes. (The example they have to follow I suspect 🙁 ) Made the mistake of reading a Lovelock article in the guardian the other day (no, I’m not linking, don’t want to depress anyone else) and am now really struggling to work out what is the point of anything if the world is (effectively) going to end anyway.

I have struggled with depression all of my life. Not just all my adult life, all my life. It is so difficult to find the energy to go on, I know that the changes we are making right at the moment will improve my day to day living but to get to them seems so much effort. I’ve letters of complaint to write to banks and so on, and yet the last batch of letters I wrote I didn’t even get answers, and you get to wondering just what is the point?

Right, must summon up some oomph to get through today and then there’s two more weeks of work at IT land, during which I must do something about a rental property nearer to the school. Decisions are very difficult while in this state though, which then makes everything else so much more difficult and I am so pathetic!

Bleargh. Whinge. Whine.


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11 responses to “struggling”

  1. hugs. I have my head firmly in the sand about the general ‘back to work and school’ oomph needed here too. Haven’t unpacked yet!

  2. (((Jax))) really sorry it’s all feeling so huge and effortful.

  3. ((((Jax)))) I hope you feel better soon.

  4. Nothing constructive to say but thinking of you lots xxx

  5. You don’t know me from adam, but I know depression,comfort from strangers counts too.Hugs from me to you xx

  6. Well, on the upside, even though i was only there for 2 days, we probably talked more than we have done in all the preceding ones!

  7. Michelle avatar
    Michelle

    It all sounds heavy going even if you weren’t ill. So hoping you feel better soon. xx

  8. t-bird anni avatar
    t-bird anni

    (((Jax))) hope things pick up once the cold goes away. Think you have my phone number if you want a chat at any point.

  9. Oh Jax ((((hugs)))) – I so know that feeling. I’ve had it since I was 12 or 13 on and off. I hope it’s short-lived this time, but if not, do go and see your Dr will you? I never used to be of the opinion that it was biochemical and I just needed a/ds like diabetics need insulin, but I’ve mostly changed my mind, and I’m just so relieved with feeling ‘normal’ most of the time that I want to stay on them forever. Happy to give you my phone number too if you want a chat.

  10. Big hugs, and lots of tea and sympathy, albeit cyber tea. Must arrange a real cuppa soon. However, I’m pretty sure your exit stage left from IT land co-incides with the start of our Easter hols…
    Depression I can relate to, sinus headaches and now backache. Try tincture of skullcap, and also valerian.
    And yes, first one to lose a stone gets the bikini 😆

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