Depression
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smokingboot...may be a chemical leak in my head.
No, it's not bi-polar disorder. I have always been like this, from way back when it was just plain moody bastard syndrome. I live with it because it's part of who I am, and part of what makes me write.
The trigger on this occasion is tiny especially after the fun of the weekend. This feeling will be gone in an hour because I won't permit it to stay. But while here it is like a knee planted firmly on my chest and I feel as though I can't breathe, or as though my heart only beats once an hour.
I read that back, think of invisible knees and suddenly Walpole's gothic novel'The Castle of Otranto,' leaps into my mind, giant phantasmal feet and all. Good old Horace. They don't write them like that anymore.
Why have I studied and read so much? It's not as though I put it to sensible use! I use my knowledge to make me laugh, to dream and to escape. And I don't feel better yet. But I will.
No, it's not bi-polar disorder. I have always been like this, from way back when it was just plain moody bastard syndrome. I live with it because it's part of who I am, and part of what makes me write.
The trigger on this occasion is tiny especially after the fun of the weekend. This feeling will be gone in an hour because I won't permit it to stay. But while here it is like a knee planted firmly on my chest and I feel as though I can't breathe, or as though my heart only beats once an hour.
I read that back, think of invisible knees and suddenly Walpole's gothic novel'The Castle of Otranto,' leaps into my mind, giant phantasmal feet and all. Good old Horace. They don't write them like that anymore.
Why have I studied and read so much? It's not as though I put it to sensible use! I use my knowledge to make me laugh, to dream and to escape. And I don't feel better yet. But I will.
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Date: 2004-07-27 01:33 am (UTC)Sounds good so far. Here, have some astral chocolate icecream.
This might sound funny, but have you got enough salt in your diet? Sodium is an important ingredient in the manufacture of seratonin (the happy chemical.) Lack of salt links quite well with my periods of depression.
It's delicious!
Date: 2004-07-27 02:43 am (UTC)Thank you re the tip about salt. I don't salt my food so it may be worth checking up.