Watch Me!

[jmfargo]

I'm sad, but don't know why. My emotions have been rollercoasting lately, with a lot of focus on the negatives, and that's not good. I'm struggling through some kind of weird depression that ranges from sad, to intensly and strangely angry. The anger only seems to come late at night, when I'm tired, and it's tinged with some kind of frustration that I can't place.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not sobbing, or shattering things, or in general doing anything negative, I'm just getting these strange sweeping winds of emotion that whistle through me as though I wasn't there, filling me up, only to be pushed away at the whim of the next breeze.

I'm not particularly sad at the moment, but lonely. I'm keeping busy to help combat it, but it's definately there.

I thought the sun-lit months were supposed to improve my mood?

Maybe I'm not getting enough sun. I think I'll make sure to get out there for at least a little while today.

Any advice, other than what I'm already thinking/doing?

Comments

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Comisseration is always helpful. "Birds of a feather" and all that.

Glad to hear you snapped out of it. :) It gives me hope.

I'm doing better after working outside for a while, and am thinking I'm going to go back out there for a while, hopefully the sun will work its magic on me, or something.

You know, I used to be such the night person...maybe I need to go for a moonlit walk like I used to to recharge? Sorry, just kind of typing to myself at this point, wondering "out loud" as it were.

[jenk4525.livejournal.com]

A moonlit walk should do the trick. Any kind of walking, really. They say exercise raises your energy levels and your spirits, since it releases some fun hormones.

Good that you're getting better, at least a little. I don't know what it is about this time of year now... theferrett is in [full] swing with his SAD right now, too.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

I know about the exercise thing, and even if I didn't then reading theferrett would have helped me learn about it since he was talking about it just the other day. It's strange, all the people that piped up about having SAD during the "wrong time of the year" when he brought it up. I wonder how many people "are" SAD in the summer, and just don't realize it because they think it to be just a winter thing.

Exercise. Hmm. Well, I just set up the badminton net, now I just need someone to play against. Might not sound like much, but the way I play, it's exercise! Same with Ping-Pong!