Stegral
Founder of the BJSP :)
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- Aug 13, 2005
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Amazing how the weather can affect some people...
everything hits harder on dreary overcast days...
Take away the sunshine for 4+ days & I get suicidal...
I have S.A.D. & am in for phototherapy till summertime.
after 20 years of councilling/tharapists, 15 years of MANY medications, 3 suicide attempts, many self inflicted scars & the LAST 4 years of journals the doctors FINALLY figured out I am NOT bi-polar, NOT schizo, Not Manic Depresive, NOT suffering from chonic mild depression, OCD or borderline paranioa...
I have had "winter blues" for as long as I can remember. Meds can't touch my depression. I am rarely depressed in the summer like I am in the winter. The last 2 years journals did weather, diet, employment as well as mood. we have had no really good sunshine here lately & with the rest of the stressors I have hit the bottom, did some personal damage & signed myself into emerg with my journals & requested a doctor that knew what MPD was. Well I got a snotty one & had a good long talk with her & showed her my journals & told her how I was feeliing, showed the carving & got put on suicide watch for 12 hrs... BITCH!!!!well I guess shift change brought in a better doc cause HE LISTENED to me, browsed the journals & asked if I have done any kind of phototherapy & I told him no, I hate the camera. He laughed (yes actually laughed) & explained what it actually was. so I got shuttled over to a different section of the hospital, they put me in scrubs & told me what was going to be done & that bloodwork was going to be done prior to & after (found out later it was to ensure a recordable result rather than just a verbal from me) then escorted me into a rom with chairs, mirrors & lights. They told me to do whatever I wanted aside from breaking anything, so I could sing, walk, pace, sit, anything but sleep.. my eyes HAD to stay open. So I paced & hummed & sat. everything but look at myself in the mirrors. the lights were bright & warm I could almost feel the smile coming to my face but brushed it off as rediculous, lights couldn't do that could they? well I guess they can because the bloodwork proved it even though I didn't feel a whole lot better. well the doc came in after he read the results of the blood & told me what I had to do. because of the family history of cancers , my already having 2 biopsies done he wasn't going to recommend tanning beds, besides I need more than tanning beds can do. so my desk lamp & bedside lamp are now UV bulbs at his suggestion as these are the 2 spots I spend the most time.Thank the Gods I have reptiles so I have extra lights kicking around. bedside one is on 1/2 hr prior to waking up & minimum 1/2 hr once I am in bed & the one at the desk is to be on the whole time I am at the computer. I am starting a new section of a journal to include the wattage of the bulb, exposed time length along with all the other stuff. hopefully I can make it thru the shitty spring to summer without any more damage or time off.
just lost 2 days pay already...
Not good when you couldn't make rent on time.
robbing peter to pay paul starts early this year..
everything hits harder on dreary overcast days...
Take away the sunshine for 4+ days & I get suicidal...
I have S.A.D. & am in for phototherapy till summertime.
after 20 years of councilling/tharapists, 15 years of MANY medications, 3 suicide attempts, many self inflicted scars & the LAST 4 years of journals the doctors FINALLY figured out I am NOT bi-polar, NOT schizo, Not Manic Depresive, NOT suffering from chonic mild depression, OCD or borderline paranioa...
I have had "winter blues" for as long as I can remember. Meds can't touch my depression. I am rarely depressed in the summer like I am in the winter. The last 2 years journals did weather, diet, employment as well as mood. we have had no really good sunshine here lately & with the rest of the stressors I have hit the bottom, did some personal damage & signed myself into emerg with my journals & requested a doctor that knew what MPD was. Well I got a snotty one & had a good long talk with her & showed her my journals & told her how I was feeliing, showed the carving & got put on suicide watch for 12 hrs... BITCH!!!!well I guess shift change brought in a better doc cause HE LISTENED to me, browsed the journals & asked if I have done any kind of phototherapy & I told him no, I hate the camera. He laughed (yes actually laughed) & explained what it actually was. so I got shuttled over to a different section of the hospital, they put me in scrubs & told me what was going to be done & that bloodwork was going to be done prior to & after (found out later it was to ensure a recordable result rather than just a verbal from me) then escorted me into a rom with chairs, mirrors & lights. They told me to do whatever I wanted aside from breaking anything, so I could sing, walk, pace, sit, anything but sleep.. my eyes HAD to stay open. So I paced & hummed & sat. everything but look at myself in the mirrors. the lights were bright & warm I could almost feel the smile coming to my face but brushed it off as rediculous, lights couldn't do that could they? well I guess they can because the bloodwork proved it even though I didn't feel a whole lot better. well the doc came in after he read the results of the blood & told me what I had to do. because of the family history of cancers , my already having 2 biopsies done he wasn't going to recommend tanning beds, besides I need more than tanning beds can do. so my desk lamp & bedside lamp are now UV bulbs at his suggestion as these are the 2 spots I spend the most time.Thank the Gods I have reptiles so I have extra lights kicking around. bedside one is on 1/2 hr prior to waking up & minimum 1/2 hr once I am in bed & the one at the desk is to be on the whole time I am at the computer. I am starting a new section of a journal to include the wattage of the bulb, exposed time length along with all the other stuff. hopefully I can make it thru the shitty spring to summer without any more damage or time off.
just lost 2 days pay already...
Not good when you couldn't make rent on time.
robbing peter to pay paul starts early this year..

