sunday night blues
Anyone ever read UnHoly Ghost: Writers on Depression? My mom got it for me. I cant decide if I want to read it yet, seeing as how I dont need more depression than whats already taken hold lately. If you have, let me know if its safe. If not, I'll put it up until I am feeling alittle more on the sunny side of things.
I finished The Problem of Pain tonight. I must say, it makes it onto my favorite books list. I'm still digesting it and re-reading things I underlined (which was quite alot).
I need some book recommendations....come on, post a few.
I went to the Alabama/Auburn game yesterday. How depressing was that. Oh well....still got a bowl game to go to I guess. I just felt bad for my brother, he is a senior this year...so it was his last regular season game and they pretty much got totally embarrassed.
I'm kinda yucky tonight, but I think its because I forgot my meds this morning. Its really amazing how that screws me up. I slept really late because we didnt get home from Auburn until the wee hours of the morning. I tend to forget my meds when I sleep late because my schedule is totally thrown off. Basically, I suck at taking meds on the weekends because I dont have the same routine I do during the week.
Its only like 8:30 and I think Im going to bed soon. I may try to watch some dumb tv. This day was basically worthless. I did nothing. I tried to clean up the mess I made cleaning out my closet when I was wired...but I didnt get much done. Thats what sucks about being bipolar. You make a mess of shit when youre manic and you dont feel like doing anything about it when youre depressed.
I must say that I am doing better handling the depression. Most people wouldnt know it I think, unless they were around me 24/7. My mind is just mushy...if that makes any sense whatsoever. I feel slow, worn, I hurt all over, thoughts are too confusing to actually make sense of because it feels like it'd take too much energy.
Maybe I'm just in a little slump.
posted by Jil at 8:28 PM
5 Comments:
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison is a good read.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham might give you backdoor insights into the disease.
Then there's always my blog....(I am shameless....)
9:59 PM
I read the customer reviews on amazon.com. There are about 20 of them--peruse those and see if the book sounds like something you would like and are up for. Also why don't you google it and see what comes up on that? I am starting Frank McCourt's Teacher Man and finishing up Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life. Have you read Mitch Albom's The 5 People You'll Meet in Heaven? I have not read that yet, but someone recommended it to me. For fun you ought to pick up a copy of Rammer Jammer, about the guy who bought an RV and followed the Crimson Tide football team all aroung the country for a season. It's a true story. I would be interested in hearing your 10 favorite books and 10 you absolutely hated.
5:39 AM
I'll show you mine if you show me yours. My top 10 favorites will be pretty easy, but the bad ones are hard because I rarely finish one I hate....but maybe I can list 10 that I couldnt finish. Anyway, I have Rammer Jammer, I just havent read it yet. Ive been feeling all philosophical or something so Ive been reading some intense stuff...I started UnHoly Ghost. I think Rammer Jammer will be next. Come on with your top 10s and I'll be thinking of mine.
Joel - An Unquiet Mind is one of my favorites definitely.
6:06 PM
Sometimes doing just a bit better is all we can ask.
On books, I'm kind of on a fiction kick with a couple that I've been waiting a while for coming out recently. If you're in aphilosophical mood, try to find something by Epictetus... it's a Stoic philosohpy rooted in how the way we react to things determines the course of our actions.
I found it really helpful and interesting all at the same time. But most of his stuff is fairly easy read, and none of it is long.
11:02 PM
I am not sure these are my all time 10 favorites, but for the mood I am in now, these came to mind:
2 from Peter Gomes: "Sermons" and "Strength for the Journey". He is or was the pastor at Harvard and these books are short essays based on sermons he has preached. He makes a lot of sense and is entertaining at the same time.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "Gift from the Sea". She compares life's stages to different types of seashells she has found. It sounds strange, but she makes it work. People overlook the fact that she was an aviatrix and writer--she suffered from being in Chas.'s shadow, I think.
CS Lewis: "Mere Christianity". I would have loved to have known him. I think I will read "Surprised by Joy" next. Have you seen Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger in "Shadowlands"? That's the story of their time together.
Kathleen Norris: "Amazing Grace" What a neat idea for a set of essays!
Willie Morris: "Terrains of the Heart". Essays on life in the South. Lots of authenic descriptions in them.
Richard Bode: "Beachcombing at Miramar" and I think he also wrote "First You Row a Little Boat". I liked "Boat" better, but "Miramar" is good. It's also essays written by a guy that just chucks it all and leaves his job and just bums around trying to figure out where he is and where he is headed. I read both of these a long time ago, but remember liking them at that time.
In case you get sick of all-essays, all the time...I also liked:
John Grisham: "Bleachers"
Fannie Flagg: "Fried Green Tomatoes" as well as "Standing at the End of the Rainbow" and "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl", but her "Daisy Faye and the Miracle Man" was hilarious.
Albert Camus: "The Plague" was really thought-provoking. I didn't really like his "The Stranger" that much.
John Knowles: "A Separate Peace". This was good--you will immediately know someone that reminds you of Finny.
Wm. Golding: "Lord of the Flies" Same thing-- Ralph, Piggy,Jack,and Simon will all remind you of folks you went to school with. It reinforces the idea that society without rules or a way to enforce those rules will chaotically dissolve right in front of your eyes.
Edith Wharton: "Ethan Frome". Loaded with symbolism and irony.
Daphne duMaurier: "Rebecca". Get past the first 3 chapters and it moves along at a pretty good clip. It's REALLY old school!
And "Remains of the Day" was good, too...about fulfilling your responsibilities regardless of what others around you are doing.
This list may be subject to change...where is yours??
7:16 AM
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