does anyone lay around ALL DAY?

Hey,

How have you been?

noreally_imfine wrote:I abuse the CRAP out of songs. If i really like it, ill listen to it over and over and over again.

Me too! I LOVE finding a new song that just makes me wanna listen to it over and over!

noreally_imfine wrote:You have chronic pain too? How do you deal with it? Do you work? Does it get in the way of work? Have you been able to find any type of treatment that helps? Sorry I'm asking so many questions. I am COMPLETELY overwhelmed by my chronic pain.
I would read Women's Health magazine and I'm starting to like the magazine Glamour a lot. For genres I guess my favorite would be a romance comedy type movie but I really like all kinds of movies. Actually, horror and the real classic older movies are probably not my favorites.

I've had pain for a very long time so by now i'm pretty used to it. I know what aggravates it and what eases it etc. I used to work - I would've taken painkillers before starting and every 4 hours while in work. Some days that just wasn't enough tho and I had to take time off. I've had physio quite a few times which has helped but applying heat has been the biggest relief. I don't work atm because of my depression/ED etc but I get disability.
No worries about the questions - feel free to ask anything

Your pain does sound like it is causing a lot of problems for you - both physically and mentally. Have you spoken to anyone to see if you could get disability or something so that you could take some time out from work? Maybe your doctor could advise you.

((Big Hugs)) and take care

noreally_imfine wrote:It is SO HARD for me to concentrate on A LOT of things, not just reading. When people say certain things that i MUST remember, I repeat what they said to try and remember it easier. I think maybe if I say it out loud, I'll be able to remember it more easily. Is your memory like mine?

Also, I do that but with songs instead of movies. I abuse the CRAP out of songs. If i really like it, ill listen to it over and over and over again.

My memory is definitely like that, I always write things down because I know I won't remember them. I hate being seen as merely careless because it's not like I don't care, it's just HARD.
I used to do that with songs, I still do it occasionally, but not as often, I don't enjoy music as much as I used to.

I lay in bed all day. For many months now since i left the mental facilities. They seemed really useless, telling me to get some exercise and have social interactions... Now i only leave my bed to go to the bathroom or kitchen, quite selfish, but i've since lost my ambition to care. Frankly i keep telling myself it doesnt matter, I seem to think ill be able to kill myself eventually, once im done with my entertainment on my laptop, but i dont think i can.
Is life really cruel? Seems like everything can put people down. They work hard, maybe try to make the world a better place, but no matter how successful or kind they are, life will get them down.

I used to, until I finally found a doctor who recognized that I was suffering from Hashimoto's disease. I had very little energy, lots of brain fog, and just felt crappy in general. I was told that, apart from low levels of vitamin D and iron, my labs had come back 'normal.' The doctor insisted that it must be depression, although I couldn't think of anything I might be bothered about, other than just feeling physically terrible and not knowing why!

Anyway, I saw several doctors and reluctantly tried a couple of antidepressants, (plus vitamin D and iron, of course. Those helped slightly.) which made me feel absolutely bizarre and awful. I mentioned the fact that my mother, my only sibling, and my grandfather were all hypothyroid, but, again, they said my levels were normal.

It took a few years of this until my thyroid gland became so swollen that I could barely swallow and it was sticking out, before they decided that I actually did need medication. As for my 'normal' labs? They were ONE point within range at a 4.9 TSH.( My current doctor tells me the standards may soon be changed to lower the threshold to 3.0, as many endocrinologists think the standard ranges are too wide. Also, TSH levels are highest during the afternoon, which was always the time I made my appointments for, given that I was so tired, so my actual TSH numbers were likely out of the range.)

I recognize this won't help everyone, but if you think it might apply to you, it really is worth looking into. Life without my thyroid meds is just unthinkable to me now. I don't know how I functioned for so long; it makes me really angry to think about how quickly they assumed I was depressed, how freely they dispensed those meds, yet how stingy they were with what my body actually desperately needed. Hope this helps someone!

A good place to begin: a book/site called: Stop the Thyroid Madness