Comments on: All linked together http://dark2light.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/all-linked-together/ The story of an abuse survivor Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:50:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bitte http://dark2light.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/all-linked-together/#comment-7984 Bitte Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:38:35 +0000 http://dark2light.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-7984 Best regards from Bitte in Sweden. Best regards from Bitte in Sweden.

]]> By: Austin http://dark2light.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/all-linked-together/#comment-7957 Austin Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:43:05 +0000 http://dark2light.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-7957 SAD can be really debilitating. It's certainly no joke. And yup, all the stuff you mentioned is linked together. I'm just now getting back into cooking for myself. I was on a junk food diet because I wasn't motivated enough to go out there and cook anything. Of course my immune system suffered and it didn't help with depression at all. But I'll tell ya, just putting something in my mouth and heading back to bed was all I could do. Sometimes it just has to work through your system like that until you can get back on the healthier foods bandwagon. I try not to be so hard on myself during these times because I know if I could do as much as I did before I would but at that time I can't so what good can come from being so hard on myself? I know how hard this is, I really do. Austin SAD can be really debilitating. It’s certainly no joke. And yup, all the stuff you mentioned is linked together. I’m just now getting back into cooking for myself. I was on a junk food diet because I wasn’t motivated enough to go out there and cook anything. Of course my immune system suffered and it didn’t help with depression at all. But I’ll tell ya, just putting something in my mouth and heading back to bed was all I could do. Sometimes it just has to work through your system like that until you can get back on the healthier foods bandwagon. I try not to be so hard on myself during these times because I know if I could do as much as I did before I would but at that time I can’t so what good can come from being so hard on myself? I know how hard this is, I really do.

Austin

]]> By: risingrainbow http://dark2light.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/all-linked-together/#comment-7953 risingrainbow Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:11:34 +0000 http://dark2light.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-7953 Geez, it is all linked together. I know I go through the same thing. My allergies make me feel crappy so I take shortcuts in taking care of myself and the allergies get worse and worse. Hang in there! Geez, it is all linked together. I know I go through the same thing. My allergies make me feel crappy so I take shortcuts in taking care of myself and the allergies get worse and worse.

Hang in there!

]]> By: Marcy http://dark2light.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/all-linked-together/#comment-7952 Marcy Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:43:17 +0000 http://dark2light.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-7952 No fun to feel helpless, overwhelmed by all the things working against you. Would you be able to make some big meals and freeze portions, so that you don't have to cook every night but have some healthy home-cooked stuff on hand when the non-cooking mood hits? Can you challenge the self-sabotage bits? Hoping something gives for you. No fun to feel helpless, overwhelmed by all the things working against you.

Would you be able to make some big meals and freeze portions, so that you don’t have to cook every night but have some healthy home-cooked stuff on hand when the non-cooking mood hits?

Can you challenge the self-sabotage bits?

Hoping something gives for you.

]]> By: jigsaw analogy http://dark2light.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/all-linked-together/#comment-7951 jigsaw analogy Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:03:37 +0000 http://dark2light.wordpress.com/?p=337#comment-7951 ugh. it's times like this that what *really* helps me is to have someone else who will bring me some soup and orange juice and allergy medicine. Because good self-care is really challenging when it seems like everything in my life is conspiring against it. maybe try getting a couple of full-spectrum light bulbs for your apartment? i don't know if they're available or if they'd help, but if you see some, they can't hurt, and might help to alleviate the SAD if nothing else. hope you feel a little better soon. ugh. it’s times like this that what *really* helps me is to have someone else who will bring me some soup and orange juice and allergy medicine. Because good self-care is really challenging when it seems like everything in my life is conspiring against it.

maybe try getting a couple of full-spectrum light bulbs for your apartment? i don’t know if they’re available or if they’d help, but if you see some, they can’t hurt, and might help to alleviate the SAD if nothing else.

hope you feel a little better soon.

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