ENDO Messages for February, 2004: Re: Terribly Depressed....don't know what to do!

Re: Terribly Depressed....don't know what to do!

From: Julie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Feb 26 08:44:02 2004

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Rachel,

I know it is hard, and I have been where you are. The longer you have this disease, the better you will become at handling all the physical and emotional pain. Remember that stress is your enemy, it does amplify all the pain and make the disease worse. What I always try to do is focus on what I can do, and forget about what I can't do. On the days where you can barely get out of bed, take baby steps. Sit up for a while. Take a short shower or bath to wash the grime off of you. Put on clean clothes, pjs if that is all you feel up to wearing. Sit on your porch and read a book, or move to the den and watch tv. Make sure you eat regular meals with a lot of vegetables. Call someone and ask them to bring you something if you can't get it yourself. Don't allow the physical pain to manifest itself into emotional sorrow. Don't ever give up. There are brighter days ahead, sometimes they are just so hard to see when we are in those dark moments. Remember to focus on what you can do, and forget about everything you can't do. Accept yourself as you are, and don't get mad at yourself or the world or anybody else because you can't do what you could a few years ago, or what everyone else thinks is "normal." You will rise above this, it will not defeat you. Don't give up hope ever!! I will pray for you that you find the strength to get through the darkness and the courage to walk in the light. Never give up, endometriosis is NOT worth that.

God Bless, Julie

At Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Rachel wrote: >
>I need to vent, hope you don't mind! I have no one else to talk to. And
>I honestly think if I don't figure out how to not feel this way I will
>kill myself like I almost did a couple of times a couple of years ago.
>It's bad enough being so sick that I can't evne get outta bed (even
>though I have been, and making myself terribly sick) and bad enough I
>have had absolutely no one to talks to and have on friends whatsoever.
>But someone said to me it could be worse, (I hate that phrase with a
>passion) And the funny thing, ever since then worse and worse things
>have bene happening in my life! I just don't know how to take it! I'm
>too phsyically sick to take all these emotinal probelsm, it's probably
>just making me sicker! I'm so confused, sick, exhausted (hardly slept at
>all lately cuz the pain is so bad) stressed, depressed! I just don't
>know how to hanlde it anymore! I woke up absoltely feeling sooooo
>horrible this morinng: phsyically and emotinally. And I have been
>bawling for the last two hours. I hate feeling like this! I can only
>take so much! All I can think about off and on a little the last couple
>of days, but non-stop today, is that I just want to be dead! Well if
>anyone has some advice, or know how I feel, feel free to write!

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