I’m not depressed anymore.
I was depressed for a number of weeks. Just feeling down.
But now …
Something has lifted off me. For the past several days, I’ve been very active – making out my lists of things I wanted to get handled, and handling them… all in good order.
I’ve taken care of some things around the house I’ve been wanting to do for years. Simple things, really, that I just couldn’t get started before. Covering up the air conditioners for winter. Cleaning out leftover pots and containers that were sitting in a corner of the back porch for some reason. Organizing things around the house
And exercising, first thing in the morning.
I guess I was pretty depressed for a while, feeling poorly and also feeling sorry for myself.
No more. Something has shifted with me — probably the prospect of a week and a half off work for the upcoming holidays. It’s got me moving again.
And it feels pretty good.
Well, anyway, off I go. The day is waiting.
Onward.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Author: brokenbrilliant
I am a long-term multiple (mild) Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or TBI) survivor who experienced assaults, falls, car accidents, sports-related injuries in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. My last mild TBI was in 2004, but it was definitely the worst of the lot.
I never received medical treatment for my injuries, some of which were sports injuries (and you have to get back in the game!), but I have been living very successfully with cognitive/behavioral (social, emotional, functional) symptoms and complications since I was a young kid. I’ve done it so well, in fact, that virtually nobody knows that I sustained those injuries… and the folks who do know, haven’t fully realized just how it’s impacted my life.
It has impacted my life, however. In serious and debilitating ways. I’m coming out from behind the shields I’ve put up, in hopes of successfully addressing my own (invisible) challenges and helping others to see that sustaining a TBI is not the end of the world, and they can, in fact, live happy, fulfilled, productive lives in spite of it all.
View all posts by brokenbrilliant
Broken Brain - Brilliant Mind 
Exercising in the morning works wonders. My dogs take me for a walk every morning and this helps me plan my day and process yesterday. Holidays also set us up for stress and anxiety which makes it easy for us to think too much about how it used to be and what is wrong in our lives today. Once this movie starts playing in our heads it is easy to feel bad and get depressed.
Happy Holidays!
LikeLike
I’ll say it does! It’s pretty amazing, to be sure. I’m working on regaining my discipline around exercising in the mornings. If I leave it to my moods — and exercise when I “feel” like it — I end up not doing it, which is bad.
Another thing I have decided to work through is the headaches I get when I exercise. I have avoided exercising over the past few years, because of the headaches I get after exertion. But if I get headaches anyway, I might as well get some exercise in.
LikeLike