I'm in recovery from depression and am, for the most part, doing pretty well. I am remembering and using most of the coping skills I was taught in therapy.

It's the everyday stuff that is giving me the most problems. Examples:

  • Trying so hard to get a job and having NO luck
  • Dealing with the fact that disability hasn't sent me a check in four weeks and shows no signs of doing so any time soon
  • Living with my pregnant, ever-so-cranky sister and her two unruly kids

I go to my girlfriends' house on the weekends and I have a great time. It's a really nice house, I don't really have to worry about money, and I love her very much and enjoy being with her.

But then Sunday comes, and I have to go home and reality hits me square in the face.

I am well aware that I'm supposed to be thinking positively and counting my blessings, but living in poverty with no way out in the foreseeable future, it's really hard.

Can anyone to relate to this?

Kim
Depression And Beyond