MaggieJ":7ux0me1m said:
Truckinguy, thanks for your post. It helped me! I'm another one who battles depression and your advice about eating right and staying active is right on target. A good laugh helps too!
It felt like late March out there yesterday afternoon... mild with a damp wind. Spring is coming! A few sunny days will do wonders for us all.
TruckingGuy IS so right-- And sunny days-- thankfully, I have seen a little bit of blue sky each day-- it's just not around enough.
the SS department isn't the real problem-- the fact that I have AMBITIONS and GOALS really throws the regular psychiatric caregivers for a real loop!!! My Shrink is a wonderful person-- hates to see clients medicated into a stupor. I asked my case manager if I was the only one she had with ambition-- her reply "yes, and it's really strange..."
My family (except for moral support from my daughters) just don't get it-- but then, the whole family could be committed and fit right in! :twisted:
I finally found a neurologist that agreed to take me on, and indicates that I am having partial temporal lobe seizures-( based on medical history and EEGs dating back to when I was 12)-then I find out that that type of seizure can actually be a cause of Bi-Polar!
of course, The arthritis, torn and ruptured tendons, etc, are no help--
Someone once apologized to me for bumping into me at a store-- and I told them- no harm done--I didn't feel it for what already exists!
I look around, and see people that I would not want to be in their shoes-- And I guess that keeps me moving along- I have bunnies to pet, chickens to watch, and I still have my dreams, though the frustration of not being able to really work at pursuing them is the real killer... My friend/neighbor and I are planning on going to MT Hope next month-- maybe I will find an AmChin or two there. Certainly, it will give me a change of scenery. Meanwhile, I have instigated a plan to save cash where the state won't find it-- And also, certain family members can't bully me out of it. If I work things right, I'll be on my own dirt before fall, even if it means I have to live in a travel trailer or a portable shed...
I Know there are others out there that have to fight just as hard as I do-- It sure would be nice if we could get together and form a group that packs some punch- meanwehile,. i have friendly p[eople here, don't I?
Oh-- I try to stay away from some of the 'specialty' lists for Service Dog users, and I avoid groups at the mental health orgs, simply because they are so darn depressing!!! But-- I am making Bunnies available as 'prescribed pets' as determined by the Fair Housing Act of 1986- this allows people in public housing, who live alone, to have a small pet as a way of encouraging interest in life, and maybe even some outside socialization. My former landlord, Lake Metropolitan Housing Authority in Lake County, Ohio, did NOT like the fact that I knew the HUD regulations concerning Service Animals and prescribed pets-- yes, i have advocated for the rights of tenants, as well-- the head maintenance guy was really ticked off that I exposed his theft of cash money from the Authority-- gee, I only asked, out loud at a board meeting, how come we were putting money into empty change boxes if the laundry and vending machines hadn't turned in any funds in two months..... :? And they didn't like the fact that I KNEW forcing every tenant to sign a blank lease was illegal...
Gosh, I am as much a troublemaker as that black bunny... :mrgreen: