Guest guest Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 I tend to clean a lot when I'm upset about stuff. Lol, Hubby wants me to get upset more often! Debi -- In Autism_in_Girls , " sondra " <hfa2@c...> wrote: > Sometimes when life is too hard for me I to take long fast paced > walks and work it off by forcing self to do much energy things like > the walk or doing yard work things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Debi, Me too. I clean like a madwoman. Something about SCRUBBING and running around your house just gets you going and we ALL know that a clean house always makes you feel madder. My husband says the same thing: Maybe I should wish you to get upset more often! That said - - - this is when it's one of those regular " simple " bouts of being down. Not clinical depression. Having been through the latter - - unlike others' recommendations, I will recommend drugs. There may be less invasive ways, but in the end, why spend a day miserable when you can get the extra " lift " needed to get you through the truly horrible bouts? I was on Prozac for 6 months, and the six months prior to starting it, I was miserable. Good things made me cry... Bad things made me cry. And the anger I felt... The outrage.... Not pretty. Finally, I got myself an appointment as I knew this new me was not the real me and after hearing about 1% of my life story, he prescribed me this, told me to take it immediately and see him in 2 weeks. Within 3-4 days, I was feeling a lot better.... Within 2 weeks, I was normal again. The thing was, this didn't change my situation or predicament, if you will, but it prevented me from going up and down all day on an emotional roller coaster. It just balanced me out to allow me to be me. After 6 months, I took myself off of it one day. I was just done. I felt good, things were pretty good so I said that was it. <Turns out this wasn't the safest way of doing things, but I'm still alive...> I took it for about 2 months approximately 2 years later but besides those 2 periods, it never got THAT bad again. I will say, though, that lately..... I can feel I am on the edge again where I seem to lose control over my emotions again. I hate that feeling. And because I know how this feels - - I would gladly recommend anyone use this route if plausible. Like I said... There is no valid reason that we have to live miserably just because our situations are unusual and quite difficult. This is a hard life, and if I need a little help - - by God, I will take it, even if from a tiny green pill. Grace >> Re: Depression >> >>I tend to clean a lot when I'm upset about stuff. Lol, Hubby >>wants me to get upset more often! >> >>Debi > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Debi, Me too. I clean like a madwoman. Something about SCRUBBING and running around your house just gets you going and we ALL know that a clean house always makes you feel madder. My husband says the same thing: Maybe I should wish you to get upset more often! That said - - - this is when it's one of those regular " simple " bouts of being down. Not clinical depression. Having been through the latter - - unlike others' recommendations, I will recommend drugs. There may be less invasive ways, but in the end, why spend a day miserable when you can get the extra " lift " needed to get you through the truly horrible bouts? I was on Prozac for 6 months, and the six months prior to starting it, I was miserable. Good things made me cry... Bad things made me cry. And the anger I felt... The outrage.... Not pretty. Finally, I got myself an appointment as I knew this new me was not the real me and after hearing about 1% of my life story, he prescribed me this, told me to take it immediately and see him in 2 weeks. Within 3-4 days, I was feeling a lot better.... Within 2 weeks, I was normal again. The thing was, this didn't change my situation or predicament, if you will, but it prevented me from going up and down all day on an emotional roller coaster. It just balanced me out to allow me to be me. After 6 months, I took myself off of it one day. I was just done. I felt good, things were pretty good so I said that was it. <Turns out this wasn't the safest way of doing things, but I'm still alive...> I took it for about 2 months approximately 2 years later but besides those 2 periods, it never got THAT bad again. I will say, though, that lately..... I can feel I am on the edge again where I seem to lose control over my emotions again. I hate that feeling. And because I know how this feels - - I would gladly recommend anyone use this route if plausible. Like I said... There is no valid reason that we have to live miserably just because our situations are unusual and quite difficult. This is a hard life, and if I need a little help - - by God, I will take it, even if from a tiny green pill. Grace >> Re: Depression >> >>I tend to clean a lot when I'm upset about stuff. Lol, Hubby >>wants me to get upset more often! >> >>Debi > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Grace I to agree if it is clinical depression then cleaning house is only temporary fix and not the right advice to be to help the issue. If it is of clinical depression from chemical imbalance and gentics it is of crucial to seek out medical help and or mental health for supports. but even with clinical depressions the more you increase you activity and structure a day with those breaks into it and force self past the stuck feeling the better chances of overcoming the depression symptoms. You might also keep f data on self and rate self and see how close the cycles of depression coorelate to hormones and monthly issues. I to find a few days before my monthly break through I to have cycles of aggressive, iritated and agitaged feel inside and sometimes as if death looms in the air and or major sad and loss feel in me and so have to teach self when this feel comes it is only temporary and will go away after the monthly is back into right sync of hormone level. If depressive times seem to be co existing with sudden stressors and life issues that seem to be to build then psychology is of good to teach you new ways to cope and work through them instead of to let the build like volcanos. I to be to be still working on these but the fact is for me they are less severe now for me and not as frequent to me. I to be to be honest but still have of this and it can be triggered and cycle me to PTSD issues very rapidly and so I to have to keep self into check much so. But in true since been in right type of therapy suicide is of less a pervasive thinking to me. Even as little as two years ago it was pervasive thinking triggered by issues that cycled the PTSD and I to ahve little abilty to cope or process problem solving skills for self, now I can be to do this better and I to reach out and use words to close people in my areas for support or need of friendship to be for me then. In past would simply act upon them. I to also know when it is most severe for me and really am of danger is when my brain begins to keep pervasively visuallizing self driving fast and off a bridge into water. Water is both a calming fixation to me and a intense fear. So it is not odd when one is with autism to think that need for water to calm but for me and past abuse issues see water as way to death things and so this is how the combination is for me. So when words come to this level from me then I to know I to be in midst of major crisis and often need medication o r hospitalizations. Because lack if have the ability to be to keep self safe and not act on my impulsive thinking at the time. I to be also when well think on it and can see long term outcome and reality if act on it but when not doing well cant and so for this have constant fear of my own impulsive thinking at times. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Grace I to agree if it is clinical depression then cleaning house is only temporary fix and not the right advice to be to help the issue. If it is of clinical depression from chemical imbalance and gentics it is of crucial to seek out medical help and or mental health for supports. but even with clinical depressions the more you increase you activity and structure a day with those breaks into it and force self past the stuck feeling the better chances of overcoming the depression symptoms. You might also keep f data on self and rate self and see how close the cycles of depression coorelate to hormones and monthly issues. I to find a few days before my monthly break through I to have cycles of aggressive, iritated and agitaged feel inside and sometimes as if death looms in the air and or major sad and loss feel in me and so have to teach self when this feel comes it is only temporary and will go away after the monthly is back into right sync of hormone level. If depressive times seem to be co existing with sudden stressors and life issues that seem to be to build then psychology is of good to teach you new ways to cope and work through them instead of to let the build like volcanos. I to be to be still working on these but the fact is for me they are less severe now for me and not as frequent to me. I to be to be honest but still have of this and it can be triggered and cycle me to PTSD issues very rapidly and so I to have to keep self into check much so. But in true since been in right type of therapy suicide is of less a pervasive thinking to me. Even as little as two years ago it was pervasive thinking triggered by issues that cycled the PTSD and I to ahve little abilty to cope or process problem solving skills for self, now I can be to do this better and I to reach out and use words to close people in my areas for support or need of friendship to be for me then. In past would simply act upon them. I to also know when it is most severe for me and really am of danger is when my brain begins to keep pervasively visuallizing self driving fast and off a bridge into water. Water is both a calming fixation to me and a intense fear. So it is not odd when one is with autism to think that need for water to calm but for me and past abuse issues see water as way to death things and so this is how the combination is for me. So when words come to this level from me then I to know I to be in midst of major crisis and often need medication o r hospitalizations. Because lack if have the ability to be to keep self safe and not act on my impulsive thinking at the time. I to be also when well think on it and can see long term outcome and reality if act on it but when not doing well cant and so for this have constant fear of my own impulsive thinking at times. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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