You are right about the "walks in the park". Last week walking through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park was definitely one of the more uplifting experiences of the past few weeks. I'm not sure whether the appeal wouldn't pall for me if I did it too often, but the idea appeals.
I'm glad that you mentioned this "real reasons" combined with "chemistry in the brain". Unlike the standard bipolars, my depressions usually (but not always) seem to have an external cause. But then again, how can I be sure that if I wasn't in an "up" mode, I wouldn't have shrugged off the external cause with a chuckle? I don't even know if it is a physical illness (i.e., a chemical fault in the brain) rather than a mental one (i.e., some kind of thinking problem uncaused by chemicals). It's probably a micture of the two, which would make a combination of something like Zoloft and some kind of therapy the right solution.
The problem is that, it isn't there all the time. And the last thing that I want to do when it isn't there is to talk to a therapist about it.
Re: Alternative therapy
You are right about the "walks in the park". Last week walking through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park was definitely one of the more uplifting experiences of the past few weeks. I'm not sure whether the appeal wouldn't pall for me if I did it too often, but the idea appeals.
I'm glad that you mentioned this "real reasons" combined with "chemistry in the brain". Unlike the standard bipolars, my depressions usually (but not always) seem to have an external cause. But then again, how can I be sure that if I wasn't in an "up" mode, I wouldn't have shrugged off the external cause with a chuckle? I don't even know if it is a physical illness (i.e., a chemical fault in the brain) rather than a mental one (i.e., some kind of thinking problem uncaused by chemicals). It's probably a micture of the two, which would make a combination of something like Zoloft and some kind of therapy the right solution.
The problem is that, it isn't there all the time. And the last thing that I want to do when it isn't there is to talk to a therapist about it.
PJ