Sometimes there are days like this . . .

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Nancy I'm wishing happy, brighter days ahead for you. Sometimes people get cabin fever, winter blues around this time of year. I think talking to someone you trust, about how your feeling might be a good first step. One thing to be happy about is your beautiful red hair!

I agree-you have beautiful red hair :) Try to hang in there-it never feels good to have a day like that

I have had many days like the one you described. I don't know what your personal story is, but mine of one of abuse-sexual, psychological, verbal, emotional. Because of that abuse I learned to hate myself and to be as mean as possible to myself as I could, both as protective mechanisms to keep me from seeing and feeling what was really happening to me. Over time I have come to realize that that protective mechanism is still operating, so whenever I feel down or sad or upset or am in pain, instead of being kind to myself like I would to anyone else who was feeling those things, I batter myself ruthlessly in my head. Little by little I have learned to begin to treat myself with kindness, despite that deafening roar in my head that you write of in your piece, instead of screaming at myself for being unhappy or feeling sorry for myself or for whatever I may be feeling that I learned in my childhood and adolescence was wrong to feel. A little kindness goes a long way. I send you some of mine. Perhaps you could trying giving it to yourself and see how it feels. I hope you will. And as Leanarda says, talking to someone you trust can help a lot.

Honestly, it sounds like you are in my house. I too, try to get myself to the gym but have a thousand excuses. I have newspapers around that I want to read, library books, things I should do, etc but it is easier to play on the computer or lie in bed. Hope both of us can make some progress.

You sound like me yesterday, and so far today too. I know that yesterday, my recent insomnia played a role, but today I have no excuse. So many things I need to get done, yet I sit here at this computer and do none of it. My mind has different voices. One starts to list everything I need to get done, the other tells me why I'm useless and wont get any of it done.

I agree with Leanarda S. this time of year seems to always get me down. We have had so many days of rain and on the weekends when there is sun, I can't seem to get my butt in gear and go outside to see it. It seems like a catch 22, but I know how much seeing the sun on a regular basis does for our mindset.

I hope you can give yourself a little credit for making it each day and I pray the rest of today and tomorrow will be better.

It took me longer than I expected to work through the emotions my fathers death brought up. I feel you on this one.

God grants us an opportunity to renew ourselves each day, so don't worry about today anymore. Believe that tomorrow will be a better day.

Sometimes are lives are like a roller coaster ! Enjoy the highs, hang tight during you just have to go with it ! Enjoy the highs, hang tight during the lows !Don't beat yourself up for having bad days !