![]() The world will get on without your seeing it. It will all be there when you’re healthy again. Plenty of fresh water, lots of rest, snuggles as needed, allow yourself naps. Treat yourself like you would your favorite pet. Do not overuse your light therapy lamp even though you want to. Get sunlight, or if you can’t, use light therapy. Exercise thirty minutes a day, six days a week. ![]() For me that means antidepressants and behavioral therapy. Celebrate the bizarreness that is you because, I assure you, you are more wondrous than you can possibly imagine … monsters and all.” And, whenever I can, I take mine out in the sun and try to appreciate that the flowers it rips up from the garden can sometimes be just as lovely when stuck in the teeth of its terrible mouth. But what we do with them makes a difference. We all have these monsters, I suspect, although they come from different places and have different names and causes. ![]() And there is an uncanny sort of fellowship that comes when you recognize the beasties that other people carry with them and the battles we are all fighting even when they seem invisible to the rest of the world. There is joy in accepting the curious and erratic beasts that force us to see the world in new ways. ![]() And yet, there is something wonderful in embracing the peculiar and extraordinary monsters that make us unique. They are destructive and baffling and ungainly. ![]() Sometimes it feels like they are larger than I am. “My personal beasties are ugly and ridiculous and they weigh me down and are exhausting to carry around. ![]()
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