the id, the ego, & the single misfiring brain cell - Latest Comments on discussions with my therapist https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: discussions with my therapist Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:12:13 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c85729@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Diana, you are a good writer. Have you ever tried writing stories or poetry? Or even plays. You know, creative writing, of any genre!</p> Diana, you are a good writer. Have you ever tried writing stories or poetry? Or even plays. You know, creative writing, of any genre!

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2015/02/26/discussions-with-my-therapist#c85729 Hinermad [Visitor] in response to: discussions with my therapist Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:39:17 +0000 Hinermad [Visitor] c85728@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Diana,</p> <p>Speaking of seltzer, have you looked at getting a SodaStream? DIY carbonated water. I got one for my daughter and her husband and they love it. They tell me even with buying refills for the CO2 canister it&#8217;s generally cheaper than bottled soda water. Target sells them.</p> <p>Dave</p> Diana,

Speaking of seltzer, have you looked at getting a SodaStream? DIY carbonated water. I got one for my daughter and her husband and they love it. They tell me even with buying refills for the CO2 canister it’s generally cheaper than bottled soda water. Target sells them.

Dave

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2015/02/26/discussions-with-my-therapist#c85728 Lorraine [Visitor] in response to: discussions with my therapist Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:38:34 +0000 Lorraine [Visitor] c85727@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>JAM, I absolutely love pen and ink drawings that are water coloured later! Our high school had a Picasso copy of a mother and child done with so few lines and such subtle water colours. It was a thing of true beauty. Good art doesn&#8217;t just paint a picture, it gives you a feeling.</p> <p>Hang in there, Diana. It sounds like you are really starting a new phase of your life and doing all the things one needs to do to get ready for that. Good for you!</p> JAM, I absolutely love pen and ink drawings that are water coloured later! Our high school had a Picasso copy of a mother and child done with so few lines and such subtle water colours. It was a thing of true beauty. Good art doesn’t just paint a picture, it gives you a feeling.

Hang in there, Diana. It sounds like you are really starting a new phase of your life and doing all the things one needs to do to get ready for that. Good for you!

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2015/02/26/discussions-with-my-therapist#c85727 Hinermad [Visitor] in response to: discussions with my therapist Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:24:31 +0000 Hinermad [Visitor] c85726@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Diana,</p> <p>I&#8217;m glad to hear you&#8217;re seeing daylight. I may borrow some of your therapist&#8217;s advice, if you don&#8217;t mind. (He&#8217;s military, right? I paid for it.)</p> <p>I think for you, you&#8217;re spot on about needing goals. Lots of people are content to live in the moment, but some people just aren&#8217;t wired that way. I have a problem with that myself, although it&#8217;s more empty nest syndrome than anything else. For most of my life I had people I had to take care of, but now that my son&#8217;s in college and spreading his wings I can see a time coming up when I won&#8217;t have those built-in goals any more.</p> <p>There&#8217;s one kind of exercise I guarantee does NOT help with depression. Shoveling snow - it just makes the depression worse. I knew I was moving to the Snow Belt when we came to the Rochester area, but even the old timers around here are saying this has been a hard winter.</p> <p>Dave</p> Diana,

I’m glad to hear you’re seeing daylight. I may borrow some of your therapist’s advice, if you don’t mind. (He’s military, right? I paid for it.)

I think for you, you’re spot on about needing goals. Lots of people are content to live in the moment, but some people just aren’t wired that way. I have a problem with that myself, although it’s more empty nest syndrome than anything else. For most of my life I had people I had to take care of, but now that my son’s in college and spreading his wings I can see a time coming up when I won’t have those built-in goals any more.

There’s one kind of exercise I guarantee does NOT help with depression. Shoveling snow - it just makes the depression worse. I knew I was moving to the Snow Belt when we came to the Rochester area, but even the old timers around here are saying this has been a hard winter.

Dave

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2015/02/26/discussions-with-my-therapist#c85726 JAM [Visitor] in response to: discussions with my therapist Fri, 27 Feb 2015 04:01:16 +0000 JAM [Visitor] c85725@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Creativity always helps me out with my depression, when I have the energy for it.</p> <p>Calligraphy is great&#8211;I don&#8217;t have the fine motor control for it, but I&#8217;m practicing it nonetheless. I bought a whole bunch of cool calligraphy pen nibs recently. Mostly I use them to ink drawings that I later paint with watercolors, but I want to use them for lettering as well, sometimes. It takes a lot of practice though&#8230;</p> Creativity always helps me out with my depression, when I have the energy for it.

Calligraphy is great–I don’t have the fine motor control for it, but I’m practicing it nonetheless. I bought a whole bunch of cool calligraphy pen nibs recently. Mostly I use them to ink drawings that I later paint with watercolors, but I want to use them for lettering as well, sometimes. It takes a lot of practice though…

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2015/02/26/discussions-with-my-therapist#c85725 Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: discussions with my therapist Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:45:00 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c85724@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Well, you already write and sing. How about trying painting? Or have you tried writing stories or poetry? Any of those would give you a new purpose.</p> Well, you already write and sing. How about trying painting? Or have you tried writing stories or poetry? Any of those would give you a new purpose.

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