*gatecrashes the party to give Deman a hug*

Don`t apologise for feeling bad Deman. One problem with these chronic illnesses is that they can drag you down and make you feel depressed.

 Deman it doesn't matter how bad others have it...your feelings are just as valid as any others!

Have a hug

Thanks, peeps

*leaves tub of ice cream and a large chocolate bar and tiptoes out*

*tries reeeeally hard not to nick the ice-cream*

Thanks, DanJ
btw, anyone else who's feeling less than their best is welcome to come in and wallow...

I bought a light box online to help with S.A.D. and it arrived today.  Only it arrived all broken.  I'm even more depressed now then when I ordered it. 

I always share
DanJ, was that their fault for packing it rubbishly, or Parcelforce for playing footie with it?

Both I expect.  (it was DHL)

The company sent it in its cardboard box without any outer box containing foam or padding.  I bet the first time the courier threw it in the back of the van it went pop.

Deman

Dems, I know exactly how you feel honey about the self indulgence, and tears,  was saying the same thing to Slimfern earlier, have had a shit couple of days, but hang on in there honey it will get better just go with the flow and don't try to fight it, thats what I keep telling myself

Same thing happened to me few years ago DJ  
I was so fed-up I illogically took it as a sign it wouldn't work and stuck it in the attic!  What sort of light box didn't you get today? 

Deman...  < pure goosedown duvet and favorite CD.

One of the 10000 lux ones called a "Day Lights" for £100.  I'm not really seasonally depressed, just seasonally maladjusted I think.  About this time of day, I end up falling asleep and waking up at 11pm, just in time for bed. 

*Rushes in...(((huggles Deman)))...Rushes out*

Lovely peeps.. thankooo

Toid....  the fact that whilst feeling so crap, you can still worry that others are having it harder, and that your logical mind is telling you to get a grip...  speaks volumes to me, about what a good, empathic, considerate person you are.

Its a good sign that you are aware it could be your condition making you feel like the world is against you and all is woe (when I feel like that cos of PMT... I don't 'see' it could be hormonal til afterwards   

Let me give you a hug too ....  

Keep ramming the B12 tablets down your neck.. (that is what you take for pernicious anaemia isn't it?)

I'm pretty much the same  ... except I crash out around 10pm... wake up again about 11.00 and I'm ready to party for hours again!

Ditty, you've made me feel all chokey - thank you so much for such kind words
B12 tabs only go so far, it's the jabs that help most. I know my condition makes me feel psychologically low at times, otherwise I'd worry I was going nuts (or nuts-er).

DanJ, are you getting a refund/new light box?

You usually need injections, I think.  The usual reason you go anaemic like that is because it's so poorly absorbed - well, more poorly absorbed than normal.

I suppose.  They collected it today again so I guess they'll look at it and send me a new one when they accept it's dead.  I was looking forward to that. 

Hopefully they'll wrap the new one in something a bit more substantial. Then it's daylight all through the dark winter months...

ok... blonde question.... 

can you not get daylight light bulbs to go in place of normal household lightbulbs?

, hope everything gets better for you soon. Think of Young running down the wing for the Villa and that will soon cheer you up.

Aww, I've hijacked the thread now!

The daylight bulbs are something like 500 lux whereas the box is 10000.  You're only supposed to use it for 30 minutes I think.  We have the daylight bulbs at work.

I think you can, although it won't be for much longer, since the govt now wants to outlaw all incandescent bulbs and make people buy energy-saving ones.

Yay, cheers darlo
They've got West Ham away tonight.

ill just come in and wallow. and ill lick the lid of the ice cream

I don't mind
Gyps, that lid's been on the floor

too late i licked it *WALLOWS MORE HARDER*

Hope you win.

I know what will cheer you up. Imagine all the love between the jack Swansea and Cardiff peeps on saturday. I can feel it now.

~shudders~ I went to a Cardiff-Swansea match years ago at Ninian Park.
I remember a gang of Jacks swarming down towards the pitch to try to storm it - and a group of cop dogs persuading them it wasn't a good idea..

Toid - have a hug


And as the ice cream's all gone now, I will leave this -

I remember when Swansea came to Walsall once Deman, some Walsall thugs set the Welsh flag on fire,remember reading it in the paper. The culprits got bans and serves them right.

Thankyou Mooms

   

* Starts campaign to have daylight bulbs made exempt from outlawing! *