Many people who become ill or depressed turn to blogging as a distraction to get away from their problems.
For years I was very ignorant about depression. I had a difficult childhood and I am still affected by it, but I was always very positive in my attitude about life and I always had hope of escaping the evil darkness.
When my father died suddenly I really felt free and released from captivity.
I finally lived like a free person, I got my driver’s licence and my brother heard about a vacant position in a company and I started working for the skunk.
I finally lived like a free person, I got my driver’s licence and my brother heard about a vacant position in a company and I started working for the skunk.
(Five years later.) I think it was a combination of dashed hopes and the feeling of helplessness which contributed to me falling into depression.
I would drive along a familiar road and suddenly not know where I am, panic would take over and I could not decide where to turn to find my way to my destination. My memory was failing me and although I had always been a dependable person I felt that I could not rely on my memory, I could not remember if I had actually done something or I had wanted to do it but was distracted. I would go back and some things were done where I could not remember doing it or I would go back and find that I had in fact not done what I had intended to do. I was extremely distracted and I felt out of control.
Then I fell ill and I had to drive myself to the doctor. Although the doctor has rooms in the town I grew up in the trip was still long and stressful for me. His diagnosis was vague and the drips had to be administered extremely slowly so I sat worrying alone in the doctor’s cubicle for many hours.
The desolate feeling of driving alone to a doctor is one which I don’t want any other person to experience.
It is then that the crying started and things at work were getting me down as explained in many of my previous posts. I could not stop crying it was absolutely uncontrollable. I am normally not one to cry – I can go years without crying and at that stage all I wanted to do was roll myself up into the foetus position and cry all day.

One day (S) phoned me and I was crying so much that I could not speak to her. I realised that if I could not stop crying I would have to take off work. I took a whole week off and I did indeed cry every moment of that week. My eyelids swole up – it looked like someone had hit me on the eyes.
The next Monday I returned back to work and I started fighting back and did not allow one more person to manipulate me again. They started saying that I had turned into a nasty bitch.

I stopped the drips the doctor was giving me and gathered enough information to control my condition by other means. I started taking Vitamin B complex for my memory and that gradually improved to a stage where some of my self confidence returned.
I then started blogging, the contact with other people online helped and that is why I call it therapy.
(S) Recommended me for the job I just started.
I have noticed some of my blogging friends are going through depression right now and I want them to know that you are not always the cause. It is usually the situation you find yourself in which causes the feeling of hopelessness which results in depression.

…. and keep on blogging … 😉
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I can’t think about a life without blogging.
Good, I hate losing blogging friends.
It’s good that you took control of your condition; and even better that you are sharing such good advice.
I hope I can encourage some bloggers who are feeling down at the moment.
It was my latest bout of depression that made me close down my blogs recently.
Then I realised my mistake and started up again!
Thanks for blogging about it!
Have a good day.
So glad you came to your senses and started blogging again. I hope you have a fab day too.
surrounded by assholes, not having a depression 🙂
That is usually the case 😀
Blogging is good therapy gb, I don’t know what would have become of me if I had not started blogging.
*hugs*
And if you ever think of giving up on blogging you will be in big trouble!
Same applies to you my friend 🙂
Great that more people are talking openly about depression now…it was not always the case…here in Ireland anyway. Well done !
🙂
What an excellent topic to highlight. Depression is a very serious thing, and you’re right – often it settles within us due to current circumstances in our life. Blogging provides that release for me, too – I don’t know where I’d be without (what I like to call) my little release valve. And, I’ve worked for a skunk before. It sucks.
While I was working for the skunk blogging was a very important release valve for me – so I am glad to find someone who knows what I am talking about and has experiences the same situation. 😀
GB I think you are absolutely right about blogging to help with depression. I have fought depression and anxiety all my life. I worked at fighting the “beast”(depression)most every day. I think blogging and getting excited about photography helped. And I do believe that what you say, that situations we find ourselves in can create and contribute to depression and anxiety. I need to stay busy and I need to stay in the moment. I have a book I bought at the suggestion of someone and it is called Zen Living. It has changed my life and turned my worry button off for the first time in thirty years! I have spent half my life worrying. Ridiculous of me, but better late than never! 🙂 Thanks for posting about this, it is a tough subject to speak about.
I am glad that this post makes sense, I was afraid it would come out wrong and not make sense, it is difficult to talk about things so private yet so important. Thank you for your comment – I think most of us feel that way when we look back and see that we were too worried about something that was quite ridiculous.
Yes GB but I didn’t mean to make light of it by using the word ridiculous. At the time, to me, I felt like Chicken Little and the sky was falling. Worry is such a life strangling thing.
I understand completely. I have at times thought something which I fought for was so important and now when I look back – it was not important to other people and I put stress on myself unnecessarily. I agree totally with your comment. The interest in photography and my blog has helped me to switch off and think of other things whereas there was a time where I could not switch off at all and I would dwelled only on what was upsetting me, which was not healthy.
I enjoy writing a post on my blog and reading people’s comments. But, more than that, I love to read other people’s blogs and their readers’ comments. It’s like having an intimate conversation with friends. I am glad you feel the same way, too. As for depression, there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel.
I wish I had more time to read even more blogs 😉
I enjoy blogging and reading other people’s blogs! I am sure it can help against depression.
This is an excellent post!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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