Posted by Angela2 on October 21, 2013, at 21:23:24
In reply to Re: Happy Sunday, posted by baseball55 on October 21, 2013, at 19:11:24
> I know I have a lot to be grateful for, though I sometimes lose track of this. I try to think about being grateful every day. It's harder when you feel depressed. Everything turns dark. What looks good on the outside, feels awful on the inside.
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> But even when things feel dark, I try to remember that my life could be so much worse objectively. My therapist really pushes me on this. I try to imagine the life of a poor single mother, worried about eviction, about putting food on the table, about the safety of her children, about losing her part-time, low-paying job because she called in sick to care for a sick child.
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> I don't have those stressors in my life and need to remind myself on a daily basis that others do and I am lucky.
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> But again, when I slip into darkness, it's easy to lose sight of this. I am grateful to my therapist for reminding me over and over again of how much I have to be grateful for.Agreed. Depression makes it harder to see the good. So I agree. I have been there. I guess it's just a thing i do when I feel down. I felt better after writing it yesterday.
Good for you. Be gentle and kind with yourself baseball55. :)
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