Hey Everybody...
I haven't posted in awhile so I hope you still care!
I have had a pretty rough couple of weeks. My DH continues his brain cancer chemo treatments five days of the month...this one hit him particularly hard... My sister had to have surgery to remove a cyst on one of her ovaries...non cancerous thank God...then we discoved that my Dad had a tumor in his abdomen and would require surgery...that was one week ago and he is home from the hospital already and doing fabulous...the tumor was 15 pds!!! It had wrapped around his appendix and part of his bladder...let's just say that the man is definitely lucky! I am so grateful that he is feeling okay and my sister is as well. We are now waiting for the pathology back on the tumor which is difficult but we will handle whatever comes at us!
Now, I know this is the depression forum but I fit in here I guess since I am currently on Prozac... I have had emotional eating issues since I was a child...binging specifically...emotional overeating...you name it...well... I found the missing piece of my own puzzle recently and I wanted to share it with you to spread the hope of finding your own missing piece...never give up...I never thought I would find it...I really didn't.
The pieces turned out to be this...Prozac (even though I never in a million years thought it would be), Yoga...I have always received the endorphins from aerobic exercise but Yoga focuses and calms my mind as well, it gives me everything I need to breathe through stress, pain, anger, anything... And just recently I have unlocked the secret to my almost daily headaches...tension... I bought the Elaine Petrone Miracle Ball Method and it unlocked my neck muscles and I haven't had a headache since...I spend a little time in the morning...in the evening before bed...and if I feel a headache trying to come on. The final piece of puzzle was only found within the last 3 days when I bought the book Meditation for Dummies...it has been a miracle in my life. I have suffered from extreme PMS that has just gotten worse and worse in the past year or so. My original dose of Prozac didn't touch it...but the 40mg does a fabulous job...though I still get an occasional flash of anger/rage/tension/ or whatever you want to call it and I got one on Monday...in the previous days I would have went straight to the kitchen and ate everything in sight...instead I went straight upstairs and pulled out my cushions. Twenty mins later I felt calm and in control again...the best part...no desire to use food to feel better because I already did! Now, I had a bit of a recurrence of the mood a little later in the day but I just recentered and did my breathing (I was at the Dr. office or I would have went back to my cushions) and it eased up and didn't come back!
I have learned more about my mind and body in the last 2 weeks than I have learned in my previous 37 years! It feels amazing! And if I can find it, you can too!!!! I promise!