> All these things are what I do to cure my periods of > depression whenever they hit.
> Try some of these! It might help! :) Thanks to everyone for the responses (sorry for making you repeat yourself Deanna. :) ... If I don't reply to your post specifically, it's not for lack of grattitude, just trying to address a few specific thoughts and get on to some other things on my list for the day. In particular, a few different people mentioned getting out in the sun, camping, hiking etc. general outdoor type activities... Part of the problem with this is that, while I enjoy being outside, I don't generally enjoy being outside by myself... Tiff is heavy set and has a bad back, and hiking isn't liable to be a real good activity for the both of us to engage in together, since it's liable to be painful for both of us (I'm _waaaaaaaay_ out of shape -- I haven't excercized regularly since boot-camp which was about 7 years ago, before I got involved with CF). I'm 5'3", ~190lbs -- most of the extra weight is between my hips and my solar plexus. I've always found excercise to be painful and unrewarding... and so it's difficult for me to adopt it as a routine, no matter how much people tell me it's necessary. But moreover, getting back to the sun / outside thing... the problem with hiking or just being outside is that "relaxing" outside isn't relaxing for me... Lying on the beach != fun. It has the potential to be enjoyable and rejouventating -- but that potential is only realized if I'm with a group of friends... The problem is that what's missing in my life isn't something I can just go somewhere and find -- it's not something I can run up to the drug-store and buy. What I'm missing in my life is a community -- a group of friends living nearby, who's lives are mutually immersed in each other. Our culture (particularly our technology) has destroyed a lot of this over the years, so that, while they do still occur naturally in a few places, naturally occurring communities are no longer wide-spread, which explains my interest in intentional communities. ( http://www.ic.org -- www.zendik.org is a good example of a place I'd like to go if I didn't mind getting arrested ) ... Except that none of them are accessible to me either -- they tend to fall into two categories -- those which require an expensive buy-in (which I can't afford) and those which would require me to give up my career to be involved in their cottage industry (which would get me arrested). So in lieu of being able to attain access to an intentional community, I focus the majority of my energies on my career in the hopes that some day all my hard work will pay off and I'll be able to resolve the divorce / child-support issue in a way that might allow me to attain access to an intentional community. (Because of course, even when I can afford material posessions, they bring me little or no comfort.) So when I'm trying to "relax at the beach", I get to thinking about what it is that I really want in my life (a community) which gets me thinking about why I don't have it, which gets me thinking about the problems I'm not addressing in any way by "relaxing on the beach". Hence, "getting more sun" is a deterrent to resolving depression. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:165901 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
