Things
June13
Things I used to do:
read
write
blog (not the same as writing)
make stuff
play with my kids
take pictures
have a clean house
cook real food
eat (instead of smoke) to regulate my blood sugar and moods
exercise
Apparently, someone gave diet pills to my ego while I wasn’t looking because now I:
let myself be intimidated
wait
scream silently for someone to rescue me
Things I plan to do starting immediately:
all of the first list above and
plant more flowers
stand up for myself
hit publish/quit self censoring
That ought to be a good start, don’t you think?
And if anybody ever tells you depression won’t kill you, they lie. Sorta. It really only eats your soul out of you and leaves a husk.
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Depression may not kill, but it does take the life out of living.
I think that the best thing to do is force yourself to do things you don’t feel like doing — things that seemed like fun in the past but that you don’t have energy for anymore. This has worked for me.
[...] but some things just need to be said, and said right out loud. And if you read my “things post“, you’ll remember that I said I was going to hit publish more often instead of self [...]