Progress.

[kalibex]

Yesterday late afternoon found me with that low level upset, that riled feeling, that unsettling re-examining of one's situation and past from that slightly different angle that's so often a result of a therapy session...

...but instead of emotionally-eating, I fired up the slow cooker for the first time in a long time, and cleaned up around the place a bit. Then I got to bed at a decent hour.

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Are you finding that the low-level upsets are easier to pinpoint in terms of a cause than just general depression as before?

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's gotten to that point yet - in this instance I was very aware of what had been 'stirred up', due precisely to the therapy session earlier in the day.

Though this Spring I've seen some instances of coming to a realization of the reasons for past upsets...about 24-48 hours after they occurred.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

One good thing about having depression that needs treatment is that it makes you think about your moods and where they come from... if they're biochemical glitches or if they're triggered by real events that have to be dealt with, for example. I think in the end we become more introspective than people who have never been forced to think about it.