Replies to 'Depression'

yes, i'm sort of the prodigal son or something, hahahaha.   i'm happy to see you here too.  i understand that they shut down the board completely without any notice! naughty, naughty administrators. there must have been one huge collective heart attack when that happened. anyway, how are you coping with the new format? i spose it at least keeps our brain cells working and gives us something to worry about besides our normal stuff.  me, i'm good i spose.  i've been here in my own place a year now, and have spent most of it healing.  sleeping a lot.  getting the garden all planted out, and walking glen the dog heaps.  i went off my medication cos it wasn't really doing it for me, and strangely found that i felt more stable and in a better mood without any of it.  part of that was also the fact that on antidepressants my mind was slightly clouded, and i was unable to spend any time working out what issues i needed to work out.  now the situation is that i am in a sort of lull, and i'm not seeming to get anywhere.  like running up a hill and running out of puff halfway up.  i've stopped to rest and now i don't know how to keep going. i'm not at the bottom like i was, but i'm sort of stuck halfway now. so i'm grateful and annoyed all at once.  but i'm happy i came of the meds, cos in my case, being in la la land was no place for me to sort things out. i'm still waking up with a coffee and a bit dopey, talk a bit later.  hugs, Sis. XXXXX