{"id":880,"date":"2010-12-06T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2010-12-06T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:22:51","slug":"struggle-with-depression-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Struggle with Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2009)<br \/>\n\tDriving over to Montpelier I had a wave of discouragement: \u201cWhy am I doing this?  What\u2019s the point?\u201d and I started to brush it aside, and then I thought it was worth looking at seriously.  I go on because I believe that my life has meaning, that there\u2019s something I came here to do, and I want to be in touch with it.  I want to live my life from that place, not from the depressed place.  I don\u2019t believe that what I feel right now about myself and my life is true, that my life is meaningless, that I am worthless.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a life that is true, meaningful and worthwhile<br \/>\nI am not in touch with that life right now<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know what to do to get back in touch with it.<br \/>\nI am willing to let go of the things that aren\u2019t working<br \/>\nI am open to trying new things<br \/>\nI ask for help from all the beings who are willing to help me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\tI think I must be exhausted from a lot of bad nights and possibly struggling with the fear\/nausea.  Certainly yesterday was much easier &#8211; saw Karen, came back and did Nia at about 30% \u2014 it felt fine.<br \/>\n\tKaren talked about giving myself time &#038; space to recover from what has been a very bad time.   So instead of seeing my puzzle, solitaire, reading etc as a \u201cuseless\u201d holding action, I can see it as a convalescence, allowing healing, renewing, recovering to happen on the deep invisible levels.  Trying to move forward will have to wait until I\u2019m feeling much more solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2009) Driving over to Montpelier I had a wave of discouragement: \u201cWhy am I doing this? What\u2019s the point?\u201d and I started to brush it aside, and then I thought it was worth looking at seriously. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=880\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}