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| Mon, 01-19-2004 - 2:05pm |
Struggles with this illness known as depression. First to the new posters I am glad you found this board. There are a bunch of terrific ladies on this board and is a place of wonderful support. They have helped me many times over and I hope at least some of the time I was able to return the favor. Not having my own computer at home makes it hard as I have to come to the library to post and answer if I am up to it and I only get an hour during the week each day and a half hour on Sundays. Depression is a bad illness but it is an illness that can be overcome or at most learn to live with it. I will always have a chemical disorder that causes most of my depression which means for me I will have to be on meds to regulate it the rest of my life. I have been fighting this battle all of my life and I have been in therapy on and off for 25 years. I have been to the depths of suicide and back again and survived. I believe even if we don't all feel it that we are survivors of this illness regardless of what it tries to tell us otherwise. To Everyone else who has been posting here I do lurk at posts although I am not always able to respond due to the time constraints at the library but I want you all to know that I do think of you all as we battle this beast named Depression. Thanks to all you who expressed your sympathies on my losing my gerbil. He is in a better place now and as hard as it is for me I know that he is. Today Irv and I went out to Naperville where my parent's live and returned some books to my mom's library and then we stopped at mom's house for a short visit and then we came home. Irv fixed us a lunch of our leftover Turkey that we had yesterday and now I am going home and finishing my movies so I can return those to Naperville at the end of the week. I have the start of a headache so I might not depending on how I feel but I might try to work some more on this jigsaw puzzle that I have been doing that is frustrating me. Love and Hugs Andrea

Thanks for the post! I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone. Are you from Chicago? I am too!
Anna