Last Friday I wrote about my struggle with depression these last few months and what I plan to do about it. I was feeling fine and it took me a while to admit that I was depressed. I know that Bipolar is an illness that waxes and wanes but damn, sometimes I get so tired of dealing with it. Instead of moping around this time I am pressing on ahead and I am going to attempt to be productive.
I am in KY visting my parents. I thought I could pretend I was in a mountain hideaway and read and write and that would make me get better faster so I have to take advantage of it. I was attempting to access the online catalog and it was down for more than a week so finally, I got fed up and called to see what was up. They said they are migrating it to a new website so that you could order ILL books online! Yay! No more typing out a list and handing it to them. The mountains are FINALLY getting into the 21 century.
I was reading on how to grow your blog and it said to post regularly. I looked at mine and I am like duh…I post like twice a month. So for this month at least I am going to try and post everyday. I pay for it so I should be more active on it. I even made me an editorial calender.
I noticed that I have been reading mostly non-fiction and all of a sudden I got a craving for real honest to goodness stories. So I am going to check those out at the library when the online catalog comes back on line on Monday. I have a hankering for books that mind fucks you. Does anyone have any recs?
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Or I’m guessing, although I haven’t read them yet, anything else by her. 🙂 and 🙁 and 😉
Gone Girl JUST came into the library for me. It is next on my list.
I have literally just started “gone girl” – is that a coincidence or what?
anyway – I have no other recommendations book wise – my definition of “mind fuck” could well be different to yours.
Write what/when you want to write – have you worked out what your cycle is? what are your triggers? do you know who or what to avoid? What can you achieve during each period? Have you got the people around you you need?
Gone girl JUST came into the library for me. I will read it next. It is funny, usally summer time I am happy and I have problems with winter time but this year it has been one long depressive episode. My friends think it is becasue I went off the paleo diet which I was doing well with. Need to go to the store and get the foods. I came to my parents house for vacation so at the moment I have lots of support.
Hugs–I know how crippling depression can be. I do think that allowing yourself to see that you are depressed is a very healthy first step. Here’s hoping you can shake it soon.
Mindfuck? Tampa by Nutting. Have you read it? I also keep hearing about Night Film but haven’t read it yet.
Thank you for the hugs! I read Tampa when it first came out and you are right that book left me going, WHAT THE HELL?!?! lol I havent read Night Film yet. I will have to check it out!
My recommendation for a crazy wild mind trip would be Humboldt by Scott Navicky (from CCLaP). 🙂
(((hugs))) on the depression front
Thank you!! I will check out Humboldt. Thank you for the recommendation.