Does life get you down?

yep life sure does get me down sometimes, thankfully not to often but there are times when I feel I have been sucked into a big black vacuum of nothingness. I am currently teetering on the edge of one now so I am not sure how much I have to offer in terms of being positive right now! However these are some of the things I try to think about to pull myself up. With out the downs we would never know the ups There is always someone who has it much worse, to find them open a newspaper, listen to the news or even talk a walk down the road While we may not know the reason, rest assured that there is a reason behind everything Well I hope this helps, actually I must admit I am feeling a little better already. Good luck with it all and remember we are never truly alone unless we want to be ~ may in every way this be a special day ~

I hope today gets better for you! I know what depression is like, I used to suffer from long drawn out, deep, dark depressions.. I can still sense that black hole from time to time usually when pressures have (finally) wore me down, then I get angry, and if I don't change my thinking, I'm soon dipping my toes in the black hole. - I had a very hard childhood with abuses, etc, depression was somewhat of an ingrained habit. Til one day (years ago) I was standing in front of the bookshelves and I froze, or rather, the Lord 'stopped me' and it entered my head something like this "you can't get out of your depressions because your depression has no name or face" (I didn't know why I was depressed, besides some inkling it was left over from childhood) then I realized, like an inner door opening, I was mourning the loss of my original family, my parents and three brothers and one sister, as we'd been estranged for 15 years. After that (breakthrough) whenever I got the blues, I was able to put a time limit on it, say, for ten minutes, I would let myself think negative thoughts, then I would turn them off.. and would even, whenever I thought a negative, would replace it with a positive or blessing thought, and even imagined a big X over the negative thought. I learned that I had to retrain my thinking.. I had deeply etched neuron pathways.. my thoughts ran well worn paths, like grooves, and I had to break out of those and form better ones.. Now years later, too, I've learned to spot the warning signs, and recover before I get very far or dive into the dark pit.. - A few years back, I realized that when I got stressed out and angry, I discovered that in my mental mutterings I would be calling myself names! But I've learned not to do that anymore also, for the most part! I've said a little prayer for you.. all the best..

I'm so please you feel better for coming to myLot and expressing how you feel. I think it is great that there is somewhere for all of us to get some inspiration. I do know how you feel in that black hole. I am someone who loves life but I have always had some darkness in my soul. I am happy now and I have found peace of mind, so I really hope it will happen for you too.