How's Everyone Doing

Hi Linda, I am feeling pretty much the same. I had a really positive week last week after a few really awful days the week before, but this week I seem to be going backwards. It is so hard to motivate myself to get up in a morning, when I get home from work, I am just so exhausted, I feel like I have no time to enjoy as its dark and gloomy and all I want to do is sleep.
I keep trying to stay positive, but then when I seem to be coping better, the awful feelings and negative thoughts just come flooding back and bring me crashing back down :-(
Getting really fed up now, and just wish these awful feelings would leave me alone, I want my life back :-(

Ive had my medication increased to 40mg and at long last I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Im just about to start a photography course, life at the moment is okay, not brilliant but improving.

Hi all, hope you start feeling better soon.

I'm completely exhausted, I just can't get up in the morning, despite my dawn simulator, it feels like the hardest thing in the world. If it weren't for my boyfriend making me get up, I think I'd sleep all day. I fall asleep on the tube to work if I can get a seat. My mood's not as bad as it could be, due to the A.D's, but just trying to get through each day at the moment.

It's so comforting to come onto this forum and see other people who understand, SAD can be a very lonely experience.

Only a couple of months to go everyone, until the daffodils come out and it gets a bit warmer! :-)

Yes, it's such a bad time - and like you say, Bagpuss, it can be very lonely. Mornings are an absolute disaster at the moment - Heaven help anyone who speaks to me when I struggle out of bed at 10 or 11 am! (Good thing I'm self-employed!) I'm also feeling quite panicky, and overwhelmed at the thought of doing even small tasks that I would not normally think twice about. I know it will get better - but that's cold comfort right now.