Re: Feeling Ignored and Unimportant
The thing to remember about depression is that it is like trying to nail jelly (jello???) to a wall. Like trying to fight mist. You'll get good days, not so good ones and downright bleeding awful ones. You'll get good months, good years even, and then things change. Because that is what real, persistent depression is like. Now - not all depression is the same. This is important. Some people go through a bad phase, recover and that's that. Never again. Others suffer bad phases one year and not the next. But for some... it's always there.
Nobody knows at the moment what you and your partner are going to face. And in my experience that can be a great strength because it encourages you to take one day at a time, to never take anything for granted.
Not sure of your tastes in music, Bjorn but this is a brilliant song about depression by a Welsh Band called the Manic Street Preachers: http://youtu.be/6m6PP6l2Duw
Even if you don't like the tune, the lyrics are brilliant. (And the reference to Winston Churchill is because he suffered from depression and called it the black dog on his shoulder.)
Horrible though the future sometimes looks, remember that if you truly love each other, then anything is possible. Because love - real love - is stronger than anything. But if love is constantly one sided, that's something else again...
The thing to remember about depression is that it is like trying to nail jelly (jello???) to a wall. Like trying to fight mist. You'll get good days, not so good ones and downright bleeding awful ones. You'll get good months, good years even, and then things change. Because that is what real, persistent depression is like. Now - not all depression is the same. This is important. Some people go through a bad phase, recover and that's that. Never again. Others suffer bad phases one year and not the next. But for some... it's always there.
Nobody knows at the moment what you and your partner are going to face. And in my experience that can be a great strength because it encourages you to take one day at a time, to never take anything for granted.
Not sure of your tastes in music, Bjorn but this is a brilliant song about depression by a Welsh Band called the Manic Street Preachers: http://youtu.be/6m6PP6l2Duw
Even if you don't like the tune, the lyrics are brilliant. (And the reference to Winston Churchill is because he suffered from depression and called it the black dog on his shoulder.)
Horrible though the future sometimes looks, remember that if you truly love each other, then anything is possible. Because love - real love - is stronger than anything. But if love is constantly one sided, that's something else again...
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