Posted by llrrrpp on June 11, 2006, at 12:53:28
In reply to Re: (((llrrrpp), posted by honeybee on June 11, 2006, at 12:39:10
Well, honeybee,
I hope to be at 100%. I'm not sure that's realistic. I just settle for "better". I don't even know what 100% is, anymore. Depression is so insidious. What happened to get me here? Who can really say "when" it started, or "how" it started?One thing that is nice is that I had more energy on this visit, than when he saw me about 5 weeks ago. That time, I pretty much moaned on the couch for about 5 days straight. I didn't want to go out. I didn't want... well, there's a lot of things I didn't want. It was so hard on him. He only has been able to see me about 5 days a month since January. He really looks forward to seeing me. And then -- he doesn't really get to see me, just some approximation of the woman he married, in acute psychological and physical discomfort.
Well, I hope you get some stuff straightened out when your husband's off on his field trip. An opportunity to work on you, without interference (if you call hugs and foot rubs and home cooked meals "interference"). Well, having another person around naturally creates conflict and stress. So when our husbands are gone, we can really figure out how much of our illness is in our heads, and how much of it is some maladaptive pattern of interaction with our significant others.
keep in touch, honeybee- sounds like we can lean on eachother.
-ll
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