Auto Destruct Sequence... Initiated

[Ymir's blood]

Just to let everyone know. My lifelong depression, usually just background noise, has been somewhat stronger of late. This runs in cycles and I'll ride it out as in the past. However, I'll try not to mope all over the boards or get snarky at anyone. If something slips through, please accept this as a preemptive apology.

[viscousmemories]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

If something slips through, please accept this as a preemptive apology.

Very well then, I forgive you for this thread.

[viscousmemories]

Was that inappropriate? You're a black comedy kinda guy, so it seemed fitting.

I'll be glad to inundate you with hugs and kitten smilies if you'd prefer that, though.

[Ymir's blood]

It's ok.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by vm

I'll be glad to inundate you with hugs and kitten smilies if you'd prefer that, though.

Step aside, amateur.

Ymir's blood, I think it's really kind of you to alert us to the potential for snark. You're sweeter than a . Please be very careful as you ride it out. Very, very careful.

Meanwhile, I got you some more toys.

[Ari]

"If something slips through, please accept this as a preemptive apology."

That should be on the side of all condom boxes.

[pescifish]

Hugs



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...and fish tickles whenever you are ready.

[Dingfod]

I know what you're going through, Ymir's blood. My depression seems cyclical, both seasonal (perhaps Seasonal Affective Disorder and it's heretofor unknown opposite: Summer Affective Disorder, aka too much daylight and not enough sleep) and maybe even monthly cycles.

[HelenM]

I'm sorry to hear you're depressed, YB . Hang in there; hopefully this will be a cycle as before and you'll come out of it again in time.

Helen

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

This runs in cycles and I'll ride it out as in the past.

Sound words. Keep posting.

Even though we have opposite seasons I've found the same thing over the past couple of weeks. I think low-level viral infections and consequent unending tiredness and headaches may be a part of it for me.

[Ex-zombie]

I want a ringside seat for Ymir's blood getting snarky.

You can start with vm.

Hope things improve with your mood real soon.

[JoeP]

Apart from forgiveness for moping etc, would you appreciate anything else? Generic words of good advice, like getting enough sleep & exercise (ahem...), not binging on the booze? Useless platitudes like "try smiling", "other people are worse off than you"? Or distractions like deep interesting threads/frivolous long threads?

[livius drusus]

Yeah! We've even got the smiley all read for it.

[viscousmemories]

Hope today's better for you, Ymir's Blood.

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by viscousmemories

I'll be glad to inundate you with hugs and kitten smilies if you'd prefer that, though.

I saw a picture of a kitten yesterday and didn't even feel anything.

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Ymir's blood, I think it's really kind of you to alert us to the potential for snark. You're sweeter than a . Please be very careful as you ride it out. Very, very careful.

Thanks, I will, mostly by trying to stay occupied.

Meanwhile, I got you some more toys.

Heh, thanks.

I was listening to the soundtrack the other day.

Originally Posted by warrenly

I know what you're going through, Ymir's blood. My depression seems cyclical, both seasonal (perhaps Seasonal Affective Disorder and it's heretofor unknown opposite: Summer Affective Disorder, aka too much daylight and not enough sleep) and maybe even monthly cycles.

It is usually worse for me in the Summer though usually work helps keep me busy. This year there is nothing to do but kill time. Also, my birthday is this month, and that has always been depressing, not due to the aging thing but rather from too many birthdays spent alone as a child.

Originally Posted by HelenM

I'm sorry to hear you're depressed, YB . Hang in there; hopefully this will be a cycle as before and you'll come out of it again in time.

Helen

Thanks. I don't think this is anything major. In the past my worst times have always been triggered by at least one major problem in my life. That is pretty much absent this time. Nothing is wrong in my life right now, though of course that doesn't mean that everything is great.

Originally Posted by JoeP

Sound words. Keep posting.

Even though we have opposite seasons I've found the same thing over the past couple of weeks. I think low-level viral infections and consequent unending tiredness and headaches may be a part of it for me.

It's Winter for you, isn't it?

Being sick can definitely bring one down.

Originally Posted by JoeP

Apart from forgiveness for moping etc, would you appreciate anything else? Generic words of good advice, like getting enough sleep & exercise (ahem...), not binging on the booze? Useless platitudes like "try smiling", "other people are worse off than you"? Or distractions like deep interesting threads/frivolous long threads?

Sleep would be nice. I couldn't sleep last night. My mind just refused to slow down. It wasn't stuck on personal problems or anything deep, just kept building castles in the air when it should have been lurking quietly in the ruins.

I bought some OTC sleep meds today. They've helped in the past.

Originally Posted by Ex-zombie

I want a ringside seat for Ymir's blood getting snarky.

You can start with vm.

I'm too tired tonight to be snarky. Maybe tomorrow.

Hope things improve with your mood real soon.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by viscousmemories

Hope today's better for you, Ymir's Blood.

Today has been pretty ugh, after not sleeping well last night.

The weather isn't helping either. It isn't hot, so far as most people would consider it, but too much for me. I think Boone may have hit eighty today and the humidity is much too high.

The major symptoms have been, not having an appetite, personal inertia making it hard to do anything and an even more extreme than usual predispostion to being sad. Something might cheer me up briefly, but then it's back downhill again. Maybe when the weather changes and my birthday is past, things will return to something closer to normal.

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by pescifish

Hugs



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...and fish tickles whenever you are ready.

Thanks, and thanks for the call today.

[Ari]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

I saw a picture of a kitten yesterday and didn't even feel anything.

Well that's not good.
Feel better soon.

[pescifish]

I hope you were able to well last night.

Goth knows we don't want to deal with ** all day!


** Who is so not the Master of the Pan Flute, btw.