Does anyone else here go along with life fine for a while and then bam! everything just hits you and you either get sick and/or depressed.

This seems to happen to me once a month or more. I will be going along organizing my time, then something out of the ordinary comes up (like a teacher being less organized than me, which is amazing) and then Wham! I am completely thrown off schedule and feel really out of sorts. Rather depressed and sometimes it even goes so far as to me getting sick. The sick part usually only happens if I dont' take at least one day for myself to just veg during a week. I feel like I am just going and going and going... and its really getting to me cause I know the stuff that is throwing me off course and bumming me out is easy for most anyone else to handle.

I can so go on and on and on and on... but I don't want to bore ya.

I am just so bummed right now and really need to get it out.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense, I don't feel like editing my bad grammar.

I'm going through the same thing right now. Working full time and doing my practicum for my masters. I go through phases with this stuff too.

I hear ya. That lazy day, though it makes me feel wasteful and lazy, is sometimes the only thing between showing up for work on Monday or calling in sick. Usually just sick of the world. God really knew what He was doing when He created a day of rest.

Oh dear. I can relate..happens all the time.
"you are spreading yourself too thin" ....if I've heard it once..

Please accept my sympathy :) I hope your bummed-outedness doesn't keep you down for long.
Sometimes our bodies tell us when to take a break and we have no choice. Rest:)

~gourmet~

that is me... one step forward... two steps back

Absolutely. Sometimes I can pinpoint where the problem or trigger is, and sometimes I can't. I think this is part of the ADD deal. We can maintain (a semblance of) normalcy for just so long, and then we're at the bottom of a big pit without noticing we were sliding down the mountain. I subscribe to Flylady & her reminders to take babysteps and work only a little at a time help me not to get to the crash-and-burn place.

I am now in the middle of crash and burn. My family has been sick for over the last two weeks and I was battling the backslide to depression and lo and behold here I am with what everyone else had.. the flu!! Sneeze, hack, nose drip, blow, blow, blow..

I am going to resort to putting tampons up my nostrils!!

Totally. I hate it, hate it, hate it. It always seems like I can't handle what other people do without falling apart on a regular basis.

I understand, happens to me VERY often... Though when I take 1 day off I feel like taking another and another so it's not safe to take a day off for me XD

I too need "X" amount of "down time". If I don't take it my body seems to go "bla" and if I push past "bla" I too will end up sick.

Depression doesn’t normally accompany the need for "down time" unless I fail to take it. I do tend to get depressed around hormonal fluctuations though!

The same happens to me... every four weeks I'm especially vulnerable for some days. But also when little catastrophes happen to me (like being told one has probably a very serious chronic condition, see my last post), there seems to be little between me and deepest, suicidal depression.

Usually, it takes long time for my feelings to wear off. When I argue with someone, I always need some time to calm down again. I don't get angry easily, too.
Depression really wears me out, after few days (luckily it is only that long anymore) I feel extremely exhausted. I feel depression very physical, my arms get heavy, there is a weight on my chest, my throat feels sort of strangled and my eyes burning... wonder whether that's normal:confused:

But unfortunately it is not like that the other way round. Feeling depressed is the only emotion that comes quickly :(
It's like I did not see I was walking close to a abyss, and all of the sudden I am falling.

Totally. I hate it, hate it, hate it. It always seems like I can't handle what other people do without falling apart on a regular basis.
Exactly how I feel..................

I can feel myself cycling downward right now.... things have been go go go lately... I am going to forcefully make myself take a break and just veg out for an hour or two tomorrow.

I find myself feeling resentful from time to time towards my bf and others for being able to take stress so seemingly easy. Do any of you have similar feelings towards others?