Today is my lucky day! It's Monday, April 13 and 13 is my lucky number! Welcome to day 13 out of 30 blog posts during my quarantine at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Today really is a good day though. As I wrote yesterday, I was feeling pretty depressed. I definitely am not the only one. Check out this journal article already publishing scientific reviews of the mental health impact during this modern day quarantine. This is a good example of a non-skewed, scientific article to help you learn more about our present situation. As I was saying, I felt pretty depressed yesterday but I was able to talk that out with my therapist this morning. I'm still doing weekly telemedicine visits with her and they are a life saver! Thank God for a simple way to continue mental health services during this time! I feel like for several years, I struggled to find the right types of services to help me get through my depression and anxiety. I went through many different psychiatrists and therapists. I feel fortunate that the psychiatrist and therapist I found here in Northern Michigan, have worked well for me.
Today is also a good day because we were able to score another grocery delivery! This time we found a delivery slot using shipt via Target. It's pretty crazy that we are living in a time where being able to get groceries is a high-light of the week. I feel it really shows how convenient our lives have become. I've never felt more grateful to just have access to a large selection of food and snacks. and compared to many other places in the world, that's a pretty big convenience that we access to and I'm sure I'm not the only one taking it for granted. I know consumerism runs rampant in the US. That's another topic for another day. How has this situation made you feel about how many products we buy as Americans and what we can do to change our actions going further?
Even though I felt super out-of-sorts and depressed yesterday, I just want to congratulate myself on how I got through it anyhow. For many years, I would have allowed that feeling to tell me that I had to stay in bed all day. Not there's anything wrong with that response. It was just all I knew how to do while feeling that way. I slowly got in the habit of practicing self-care even during depression cycles. Yes, that meant I had to push myself, and it took years to find the right pressures to push with and when to ease up. Yesterday I went for a long walk, did some outdoor garden work, made some birthday cards, all while feeling pretty miserable. I've worked so hard to get to this point. However, if you are still at place where your depression is unrelenting and all you can do to keep living day-to-day is sleep the day away, that's also OK. I have been there too, and as the years go by and depression changes, I may be back in that place again. and even that will be OK. but I will never, ever give up. and neither will you! What is something that you deal with much better now than you have in the past? You should congratulate yourself! Thanks for reading today and thank you to all of my new readers! Your messages and and comments and sharing my blog with others means the world to me. Let's be stigma free! See you here again tomorrow :)
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