Worry

Do any of you guys find that you worry more when you are in your SAD period.

I worry terribly and I am sure this makes my SAD worse.

My son has gone away for the weekend with his dad to Rugby which is about 75 miles from where we live. I worry constantly until he gets home. What if they have a car crash, what it they die, before I know it I am arranging what I would do at his funeral and everything.......

I feel terrible thinking these things but I can't help it. I just worry so much, it's so unnecessary.

Hi Suzie, yes I worry a lot too. I have all kinds of scary thoughts and scenarios going through my head lately. It's horrible isn't it? I worry about little things too, like Paul said. I find a distraction sometimes helps to stop yourself thinking too much when you're feeling down, like getting absorbed in a tv programme or a book.

My dh used to go out with a motorcycling group. Only problem was that one of the members was at his opera group too, slim, professional, attractive...... and she was in the biking group too. Also leather clad. Need I say more?

I worry and sometimes obsess about things that make me self conscious. I have a good man who accepts that I get depressed every year, says its just the way God made me and that half the women in N. America get depressed. This is his spiel to make me feel normal even though I have fibromyalgia too. I'm so scared he'll die before me, or worse yet die young. I spent so many years suffering through this alone, wondering how I could get into a decent relationship, so its huge for me.

Sometimes my worry doesn't even have a clear focus, its just an icky feeling that something's wrong, I must be doing something wrong.


Jeanne

I have the same thoughts Jo, Paul and Jeanne. I worry about my family and even worry about how they are feeling and whether they are happy. I worry a lot about what other people think of me too. Paul, I think about sad things that have happened too and they're the hardest feelings to get out of your head because they've already happened and they're real.

I read a book by Richard Carlson called 'Stop Thinking and Start Living'. It's written for people with depression and although it's obviously not a miracle cure it's got some useful tips in there for when your thoughts go spiralling out of control. I found it helpful anyway.

Anxiety, I hate it even more than insomnia.