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Hello Isabella thanks so much for your post! It really helps to read it. It is so hard for me on days like yesterday. On top of it i am having a small repeat of it tonight. I feel sad and blue and weepy. And that scares me. I am so afraid to go back to how unhappy and depressed and despaired i was back then. Then again, i know that focusing on the past doesnt help me at all. And you are right. It is ok to be sad sometimes, even for no reason (or for good ones!). It is ok and it will pass. On top of it you are right i am at a time of the month where it is normal to be more tired and weepy and sad. It is just all a bit scare for me. In between dealing with school and the medication thing and the sad thing, theese few days have been rough. Plus i am afraid to tell anyone around me about it. I am afraid they will be afraid. I am afraid they wont understand. and i am afraid that if i tell them then it is true and that means i will be depressed. I am also afraid that if i let myself cry or be sad it just wont stop and it will be the never ending spiral of doom! Then again that is just my anxiety talking :blush: and maybe some of the pms talking too ;p . But it does help me you telling me you get blue days too and that it is ok and normal. It helps to know that i am gona be ok and that i am not the only one who gets theese kinds of days. Thanks so much for your post :) I think i will take some of your advice and i will go put on my Pjs and relax. Since i dont have a movie but i do have a very good book i will go read my book. Tonight is a good night for a rest and some Tlc just for me from me :) Thanks again. - Diva
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Diva, I am sorry to hear that you are down but we all have our days when we feel depressed. Don't worry that you are getting depressed, especially if you are PMSing. For me, personally, every month around that time I get very tired, very anxious, and down (i cry at commercials or thoughts or anything LOL). You are just reading into your sadness too much and who wouldn't be a little sad to know that the meds that are the best can't be taken because of allergies. You have to accept that being sad some days is ok and it doesn't mean you are on the path to being clinically depressed. Even those people who don't suffer from depression get down and get the blues. I can totally understand why you would be concerned since you have been depressed before and that can be hard. Just stay positive, be hopeful, and things will always work out in the end. Allow yourself some days to just be down. I like watching Lifetime movies on days like that so I just stay in my pj's, snuggle under the covers, and watch movies. It actually makes the day better for me and I don't sit around and obsess because the movies take my mind off of things. Maybe this would work for you too. In any case, good luck and keep us posted. You will be fine. ~Isabella~
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Diva, Thanks for sharing. Continue to put your thoughts on paper and begin to challenge them. Use you doctor's help to guide you and work through the program slowly. The program can help guide you through and challenge those thoughts. Josie _______________________________ The Panic Center Support Team.
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Thanks i needed a hug :) <3 -Diva
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Diva, Just do me one favor... Wrap your arms tightly around you now as a hug from me to you. Any better? I sure hope so. We are ALL here for YOU! <3
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Funny, my day started really well, ok lol I got up and bravely faced my day and got what i needed done and went to both myclasses and participated and everything. Then it came time to deal with figuring things out for the meds to meet with my doctor tomorrow. And i realized that all the anti-depressants i was told worked well are all in the same family which i seem to be allergic to. I got so depressed and sad! I felt like all of a sudden there was no help for me! And where did that come from anyway? Since when do i rely on pills to make me feel better? I beleive and really truely beleive in working the program and in doing the cognitive behavioral work! I beleive that you get better through skills and that the pills are just there to help out once in a while. So why all of a sudden am i feeling helpeless and lost? Thing is i came home tired. I was tired when i got home and i got sadder and sadder and more anxious as the evening went. Maybe i just overdid it today who know. Maybe i am just near my womanly monthly affliction (which i am) maybe i am just too tired and hungry and cold (cold over here lol! All i know is atm i feel sad and anxious and blue and just all not that like myself. All i want is a collective hug so i can cry and feel safe (sounds childish i know). Anyway, on top of it i start obsessing about what if i am getting depressed as i wonce was. That is one of my phobias or obsessions, being depressed like before. It got real bad sometimes. But then i tell myself Do not analyze the past! this is Now. And in the Now you are sad but ok and you know how to take care of yourself! And in the Now you are safe! And this too shall pass! Anyway, i just needed to tell this to someone out there! If you guys need to delete this because it is not so anxiety related as it is depression related i will understand. I mean i am anxious but it is the being sad that makes me scared lol. Anyway, whoever reads this thanks for listening. See you tomorrow! -Diva

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