Hope for Me
We have been chatting about hope this week. Depression is an illness that seems most of the times, hopeless. But it doesn't have to be.
If you are going to get some hope you need to identify just exactly what would give YOU hope. It is probably a little different for each of us.
I will share with you some of the things that give me hope. Maybe that will give you some ideas of your own.
Every so once in a while, I will get new resolve to talk to my doctor (again!) about my situation. Maybe I feel the need to try a new drug, or maybe I have read something that questions my diagnosis. Just having the NEW RESOLVE to talk to the doctor (again!) gives me hope. So, new resolve, gives me hope. The hope is also related to the possibility that maybe as a result of a new discussion with the doctor we may together come up with a new idea that may make ALL of the difference.
Thinking about something I did well gives me hope. For instance, this week my grown up daughters took me out for a special lunch for my birthday. They took time away from their busy lives to honour me this way. Since I just turned 60 it is a milestone birthday. When I am with those two fine women, I must say to myself "you did something right Wendy if these two fine women think enough of you to do this for you. And you must have done something right, because look how well they turned out!" Thinking this way gives me hope, hope that my life has not been a complete waste. Hope that my life was once productive and happy and may once again be productive and happy. So, thinking about something good that I did gives me hope that I really am not a complete loser even though this illness at times makes me feel like I am.
How about you? Can you identify the kinds of thoughts and situations that might bring you hope?
Don't forget to laugh today.
May Dipsy Doodling Around Depression be better than a therapy session!
Don't give up, I'm praying for you!
Wendy Love
2 comments:
What a beautiful message Wendy.
Hope is so important for hope motivates us to try again and to soldier on.
Its a constant battle isn't it, between the intellectual side of us, creating hopeful goals - and the inner emotional side.
We are a little like jugglers at times cycling postive self statements and hopeful messages around and around, and praying that they don't come falling down.
But, even if they do fall, and depression wins the battle....hope gives us determination and a goal that enables us to keep our resolve and our mind fixed on getting through it all.
Fredericks,
What a wonderful way you have of expressing hope 'gives us determination and a goal that enables us to keep our resolve and our mind fixed on getting through it all.' If that is true then we could say that hope empowering! Thanks for the encouraging words.
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