Hope from Despair

The last month was a tough one CFS/ME wise. I ached a lot, neck, shoulders and back and sometimes my back was so painful that putting my socks on became a major operation. I felt exhausted a lot, had headaches, truly terrible digestion and slept during the day for hours at a time. I’ve described the place it took me to  in my recent post, Depression Fog and now want to fill in the detail. Since returning to Rowan in mid Jan we have faced some pretty...

Depression Fog

It snakes around me like a fog and I lose myself. This part of me has been around for a long time and I thought I had it under control until recently, when it came knocking again.  When she comes she whispers to me about the futility and pointlessness of it all, creating arguments to trash, belittle and lay waste to everything in my life. Usually, after a period of bleakness where I basically annihilate all the good in my life and prove to myself why...