This week I came across a good educational resource regarding mental health - mainly depression at this point - in older adults.  Good short videos & information provided in easily understandable format.  

I have realized recently that I am not living in the moment.  My mind is usually somewhere else.....usually racing ahead to what I need to do.  I feel that this is not a healthy way to be living because I am not experiencing the joy of a given moment, but rather stressed about how I am going to accomplish the next task at hand.

 Do you think having a Developmental or Neurological Disability or a Mental Illness Makes You a bad person? Are stroke survivors, people living with Autism, FAS, MS, head injuries, and other neurological differences, less than human?

Is it Ok to call people "retards", "crazy" "mentally ill" "stupid" "a moron"  and so on when you disagree with them. 

I haven't posted about it but recently I have fallen into a pretty black depression.  I felt like life had no purpose and I was dealing with feelings that I had no clue how to deal with.  Today I honestly felt like I was hanging on to my sanity by a very thin thread.  The word nervous breakdown was all I could think of but I don't think that they call it that anymore.  I often felt like a ghost.

so, i've been watching this show on a&e or tlc or something, it is a reality show where cameras go inside the homes of people who have a mental illness refered to as 'hoarding'.  my interest in it has been waning,  and was thinking that this was all some kind of bogus thing until last night.

I have said for sometime that I live in an insane household.  It is now documented.

I took my four pets for a check up today.  

My cat , Molly,  (she is the black cat in the picture of the bedroom I posted a couple years ago) is grouchy because she is constipated.  She also needs to lose weight so she got a diet cat food.

With little explanation, because it means nothing to anyone else, I am wondering what you think about to get you out of the depths of hopelessness.  I suppose I'm suggesting you must suffer from depression to be able to answer this, but I'd like anyone and everyone's opinion, regardless of reason or season.

Please tell me what brings you out of the bottom of the well -- I desparately need a little inspiration.

Thanks fo reading.

Hello Wondercafe!