[16 May 2012 update: I know I said I won’t be online these few weeks and I have been doing quite well keeping my promise. However, May is Mental Health Awareness Week and I would like to offer my modest contribution in support of the Mental Health Blog Party organized by the American Psychological Association.
So I decided to come mid-way: I am now updating my blog to participate in the Blog Party – but not with a completely new post in agreement with myself to take care of my health and sanity.
Therefore, please excuse the fact that I’m updating only to direct your attention to a post in the archives, “10 things not to say to a depressed person.” Nevertheless, this article tells my story, and hopefully does its part in explaining depression to those who don’t understand it and in relieving the skewed perceptions some people have of mental illnesses.
And for now, I’m going back offline to allow myself to focus on myself, especially with only THREE days to go before the wedding!]
I have been down with a humungous migraine this week. Despite my warning to myself with mini headaches in the last few weeks, I was obstinate and tried to push myself an inch further. I heard my body’s warning signals, but did not listen. And so, again I was bed bound.
There was nothing I could do except play with my bears and my dog Bamboo. I got worried and more frustrated at my migraine for it prevented me from writing and fulfilling obligations – I had promised at least three other websites I would write them a guest post by the end of last week. I don’t like failing people’s expectations. It was ;a vicious cycle, the more annoyed I was at myself, the worse my migraine became, and I’d get doubly upset at my weak physique.
