just dropping in to say “Hi” to everyone. I haven’t been here for a while-sorry to have neglected those who were/are(hopefully)friends.
There is nothing wrong in fact life at the moment is really good. Now before anyone who is feeling particularly low groans and mutters “so what ?” Let me tell you this, I stumbled on this site a while ago and found it to be really helpful. Other people who felt EXACTLY the same as me ! Lets face it we can have as many supportive family members/partners/friends etc but as someone else said in one of the threads…unless you have been through this, you don’t understand. Its impossible. So finding a place where you are understood,made feel welcome, not judged and surrounded by people who are STRONG enough to admit their feelings out loud…well what more could you ask for ?
I salute everyone who posts on here-whether it is to listen and offer sympathy, support and understanding or whether it is to look for help for yourself, it takes a lot of courage and I for one really appreciated it at a tough time in my life. I also found that some days when I was feeling very low and miserable….looking through the various threads and reading other folks problems meant that I sometimes felt a bit of a fake as my problems faded into insignificance. So that was good for me. I have just read through a lot of the new posts and would like to say Hi to anyone who doesn’t know me…I have been busy with work, busy doing some of my design work and just generally getting back to normal !!! Thank goodness. I think that for all of us it seems that you have to go through different stages in this “depression” thing and some might take longer than others , but when the time is right you will find the motivation to start to sort things out. I believe we all heal at different rates and sometimes that can be really frustrating. But its a bit like dieting- the weight doesn’t go on overnight so neither will it disappear overnight. Depression is the same..it creeps up on you and darkens your life terribly but you can do a little every day (sometimes with a day off if you need it !) and eventually it will ease. Believe me once that mood starts to lift, you first of all feel nervous, waiting for it to come back, but then slowly but surely the"old” you…the “real” you will emerge.
Take heart chums..it’ll come
Please don’t think I am being flippant I truly am not. I want to post something positive for you today and hope that for someone this is the day that will be the start of something better.
take care you lot…promise I will be back in touch more often
Kate
ps thanks for the message Karma- hope you are well ??? 
