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Re: How to resume normal life? » noa

Posted by Racer on October 2, 2000, at 19:20:08

In reply to Re: How to resume normal life?, posted by noa on October 2, 2000, at 18:45:10

> I am trudging through the mess that is The mess is both literal and figurative, from the chaotic, debris filled apartment

I've got a theory about this: the messy living space is an outward sign of our inner turmoil. Look at it as equalizing the pressure we're suffering internally. It doesn't help you find the ice cream scoop, but at least you can deal with it as a symptom of disease, rather than a character flaw. (Helped me, at least)

Or you could do what I did: MOVE!!! I had a buddy in college who said that he'd move whenever his dishes all needed washing. I thought he was nuts, but it worked for him...

Seriously, noa, you're so great, I love reading your posts, and I hope you find yourself getting up one morning and saying, 'wow! the apartment is clean, my credit is clean, and I've climbed out of my hole.'

It's difficult to rebuild your life. No answers here, except that it's hard after any sort of illness, physical or mental. At the start of my most recent depression, I also had mononucleosis. I was in the hospital, had to stay with my ex-boyfriend for several weeks, since I couldn't even get out of bed. He had to feed me tomato soup, because I couldn't feed myself, and one can lasted for three or four meals because I didn't have the strength to swallow any more than that. This was a physical illness, devastating, and yet there were people who wanted to know why I didn't just get out of bed and DO SOMETHING. Mind you, it was getting out of bed that landed me in the hospital in the first place: I thought I had a bad cold, got out of bed and started trying to do things, and collapsed. Woke up in the emergency room, in a feverish panic, and was admitted for several days. Joyous. To come out of that and find 'friends' wanting me to 'pull myself up by my bootstraps', etc, was not very uplifting.

Now the wolves are a little farther from my door, I'm feeling a little stronger, a little more competant, and certainly more hopeful. C'mon, noa, grab my hand! We CAN do this, and we can do it better together!


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