|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: chasing the Black Dog - a depression support thread
|
Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
# 4927
|
Posted
Prayers for you and your post is in exactly the right place. Prayers for professional help too for you, that it may be what you need right now.
--------------------
Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
Posts: 9745 | From: girt by sea | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Doone
Shipmate
# 18470
|
Posted
Praying for you IanC, especially for your spirit to find rest and peace and that you find a safe and supportive church family. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
It makes perfect sense, IC. that you can find healing and peace.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Zoey
Broken idealist
# 11152
|
Posted
Everything feels too much. I can't explain it here. I have hardly any hope and I wonder if that makes me a crap Christian, because I don't trust God to make anything better.
--------------------
Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
Posts: 3095 | From: the penultimate stop? | Registered: Mar 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
jacobsen
seeker
# 14998
|
Posted
Zooey, it sounds more as if you can't trust, which is a desolate, but quite involuntary, place to be in. And many saints have been there.
--------------------
But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Keeping you in my prayers, Zoey - perhaps when your own faith is faltering a bit it doesn't hurt to borrow a little from someone else.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Lia
Shipmate
# 7396
|
Posted
Praying for all here, especially Ian and Zoey
I feel better now but my back dog is never too far from the door, so thinking of you and all those who lurk on this thread.
Posts: 127 | From: Cherry Tree Lane | Registered: Jun 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
I'm not feeling too good. i can't find my crisis action plan. I know it starts with thinking about and talking to people who love me. And it ends with going to hospital. But what's in the middle?
I have phoned a friend. I'm trying to do the right things.
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
jacobsen
seeker
# 14998
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
I'm not feeling too good. i can't find my crisis action plan. I know it starts with thinking about and talking to people who love me. And it ends with going to hospital. But what's in the middle?
I have phoned a friend. I'm trying to do the right things.
Does it include any reading? Or active stuff such as gardening?
--------------------
But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Mentioning it here is a good start; you can be assured you're in our prayers.
that you feel better soon.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Fredegund
Shipmate
# 17952
|
Posted
EM
Hope you find the missing middle. Funnily enough, having just fallen up the office stairs with a cup of black coffee, I feel much better. Perhaps I drowned the dog by accident!
--------------------
Pax et bonum
Posts: 117 | From: Shakespeare's County | Registered: Jan 2014
| IP: Logged
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
Thank you for your support and prayers. After retreating to hide under the duvet yesterday afternoon, I'm now up and at it again....
Hope you are all doing OK
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Doone
Shipmate
# 18470
|
Posted
That's good to hear EM!
Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Good on you, EM! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Huia
Shipmate
# 3473
|
Posted
Well done EM. I find a strategic retreat can sometimes allow me to gather myself together to get into things again.
Huia
--------------------
Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
Posts: 10382 | From: Te Wai Pounamu | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
# 15560
|
Posted
Middles.
A friend quoted Dante to me today and it rang the bells of EM's post, and I have found it in my bookshelf (a few liberties with this quote):
"In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself in a dark wood
for I had lost the right path.
It is a hard thing to speak of
Of how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was...
But I came forth, and once again beheld the stars"
And the shining world.
--------------------
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
\_(ツ)_/
Posts: 11498 | From: Treaty 6 territory in the nonexistant Province of Buffalo, Canada ↄ⃝' | Registered: Mar 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
jacobsen
seeker
# 14998
|
Posted
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
--------------------
But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Nicodemia
WYSIWYG
# 4756
|
Posted
for everyone here.
Wish life would make more sense to me. I see so many lost opportunities and bad decisions in my life, and there is just no time or place to do anything about them. (I'm 82, and giving up)
Where is God when you need him?
Posts: 4544 | From: not too far from Manchester, UK | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
jacobsen
seeker
# 14998
|
Posted
You are all you have to give, Nicodemia, and it will be enough. Hoping you find your way through the desert.
--------------------
But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
Decisions certainly have consequences but we can never know, in this life, what good we have done by a chance word or action as one of the consequences of one of our lost opportunities.
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.
I think that sometimes we have to take God on trust even when our self rebels at the idea - and even when we rebel at the idea of God!
[ 16. July 2016, 13:33: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
((Nicodemia))
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
I think this thread needs retaining so I'm bumping it to avoid the Hostly Hoover.
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
Very tired and increasingly detached
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Teekeey Misha
Shipmate
# 18604
|
Posted
EM.
--------------------
Misha
Don't assume I don't care; sometimes I just can't be bothered to put you right.
Posts: 296 | From: UK | Registered: Jun 2016
| IP: Logged
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Teekeey Misha:
EM.
Amen to that.
Depression is such a bastard!
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Golden Key
Shipmate
# 1468
|
Posted
{{{{{everybody}}}}}
My Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD--a type of depression) is kicking in. I have meds, but keeping up with them can be hard.
--------------------
Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
Thanks for prayers and hugs and the very useful reminder from GK that we may all need more light. Me for sure.
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Doone
Shipmate
# 18470
|
Posted
Totally agree, just upping my meds as well.
Prayers for all of us
Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015
| IP: Logged
|
|
Bishops Finger
Shipmate
# 5430
|
Posted
My own Black Dog has been hiding under the bed with the other monsters for some time, but recent health-related and church-related events are making him stir and growl a bit...
for all with Black Dogs, or SAD (just as badly-behaved, ISTM).
Ian J.
--------------------
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. (Wilkie Collins)
Posts: 10151 | From: Behind The Wheel Again! | Registered: Jan 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Prayers continuing to ascend for all on here; for those of you who suffer from SAD, are light-boxes of any use?
Having grown up as far north as I did (59°N), I got used to the short days of winter, and found that they were more than compensated for by the long summer evenings, but I fully accept that this was just good fortune.
Where we are now is about 46°N - the furthest south I've ever lived* - and I've been noticing the "nights drawing in" recently, although the only effect this usually has on me is that I realise I'm looking forward to that extra hour in bed on the last Sunday of October ...
* Actually it's only a couple of degrees further south than St. John's, but it does seem that the evenings here started getting a little darker a little earlier.
[ 04. October 2016, 21:43: Message edited by: Piglet ]
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
# 5528
|
Posted
Yes, lightboxes help, and medicine helps, and a long, long visit to sunny California helps most of all. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
--------------------
Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
Posts: 20059 | From: off in left field somewhere | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
Not if you live at the top of Skyline Cloudsuck Everfog Ridge. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Yesterday it was too wet to go outside, just from drizzle. It sucked.
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Huia
Shipmate
# 3473
|
Posted
It's spring here and, apart from the temperatures, the weather is worse than it was in winter.
I can cope with rain, but mist and drizzle are the pits. I try to go for a walk regardless of the weather because it lifts my mood. The bubble bath I have to warm me if I get cold and wet helps too.
Huia
--------------------
Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
Posts: 10382 | From: Te Wai Pounamu | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
*switches light box on*
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
|
Posted
When I lived in New Hampshire, I had mild SAD. An article in the paper suggested that people with SAD should spend at least a half-hour out of doors when the sun was at its highest. I did this, and it took care of the problem; it helped even on cloudy days.
Those with more severe SAD would probably benefit from this in addition to their other treatment.
Moo
--------------------
Kerygmania host
---------------------
See you later, alligator.
Posts: 20365 | From: Alleghany Mountains of Virginia | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
My solution to the SAD issue is the opposite of Piglet's - by moving here to much nearer the equator I no longer face the short winter days - dawn to dusk in winter is about 11 hours (summer 13 hours) which I find manageable. The fact it is warm all year is just the icing on the cake!
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
# 5528
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Not if you live at the top of Skyline Cloudsuck Everfog Ridge.
Yesterday it was too wet to go outside, just from drizzle. It sucked.
Kelly, I don't know how dark Skyline Cloudsuck Everfog Ridge gets, but the amazing thing I noticed when I moved from SoCal to St. Louis is how freaking DARK the cloudy days are here in comparison. Like, 500% darker.
I think I'd gotten used to the light bouncing from the Pacific to the underside of the clouds out there. Here there is no Pacific to act as a mirror, and instead the streetlights try to figure out if they should come on.
![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
--------------------
Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
Posts: 20059 | From: off in left field somewhere | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sandemaniac
Shipmate
# 12829
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
*switches light box on*
EM, every time I see your sig on a post it makes me grin. Even when you are taking shit, it casts a little ray of light into my day.
AG
--------------------
"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Erroneous Monk
Shipmate
# 10858
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
*switches light box on*
EM, every time I see your sig on a post it makes me grin. Even when you are taking shit, it casts a little ray of light into my day.
AG
Don't really know how to take that, but have a hug anyway *hug*
--------------------
And I shot a man in Tesco, just to watch him die.
Posts: 2950 | From: I cannot tell you, for you are not a friar | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sandemaniac
Shipmate
# 12829
|
Posted
Have one right back from me, I don't need one right now, but I appreciate the thought, and I expect you need one too.
AG
--------------------
"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Martin60
Shipmate
# 368
|
Posted
Here I suppose. As in where to post my sudden tears of helplessness for Haiti. I don't know what to do. I just cry. Saying it. Where's the best donation site? Who's on the ground there?
--------------------
Love wins
Posts: 17586 | From: Never Dobunni after all. Corieltauvi after all. Just moved to the capital. | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Doone
Shipmate
# 18470
|
Posted
My church collection is using Tearfund as I understand they are on the ground (appropriate name, eh? ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif) )
Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015
| IP: Logged
|
|
Martin60
Shipmate
# 368
|
Posted
Thanks Doone.
--------------------
Love wins
Posts: 17586 | From: Never Dobunni after all. Corieltauvi after all. Just moved to the capital. | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Printer-friendly view
