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Fall depression conquered

by R F on December 19th, 2008

Living with a depressive disorder is always extremely tough during the fall. The mind goes from bad to worse, and survival becomes the main goal. Sometimes, even during the fall, something comes along to just lift you up, out of the gray dullnes and put a big fat grin on your face.

Yesterday, something like that happened. I got the best praise I’ve ever heard for something done in school. Today I got to know that I got a good grade in that course, even though I almost failed the written exam. This, combined with the fact that Xmas break starts now has med me walk on clouds, dancing and singing my way along in life. Big thanks go to the girls working in the group in this course, without them, and their patience with me, I probably wouldn’t have reached that grade…

Time for Yule, I’ll try to remember to make an offering to the gods on dec 21, to make sure that the sun is coming back. (Also that the sun in my heart right now will come back to me again.) The coming semester I’m currently signed up to 6 courses at three different universities in different parts of the country (147% of full-time studies), and have applied for a part-time job. I probably won’t get the job, but it felt good applying for it. :) I’ll be having very unspecified planning since 3 courses start at the same time , one starting a few weeks later. Two are distance courses which I have to plan the time myself. This is a recipe for disaster if I ever knew one… But I’m on top of the world right now, so everything will work itself out.

On another note, I think I’m finally getting a sense of how my career is going to look like after a possible graduation. Medecins sans frontier are a possible way into the world of ‘Development Assistance’. Very little money, but precious experience.

Happy yule-tides!