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Sometimes it helps me want to hang in there if I know this site helps others - please e-mail me and let me know blogmistresskate@NOSPAMearthlink.net
(take out the NOSPAM first). If you just want to critize, well, then, remember what they always say... "I you haven't got
anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
Reasons to live (and attempt to live healthfully)
1)your cat, Roxie (she needs you, no one else is going to understand her kitty PTSD or put up with her)
2)you really do make a difference in some people's lives, even if you are just doing your job
3)somebody loves you, and if you think hard probably more than one somebody
4) you promised you wouldn't
Reasons not to hurt yourself (in anyway, accidently, on purpose or accidently on purpose)
1)because it wasn't your fault back when you were taught anger is pain and it is time to learn a new way
2)because you wouldn't want someone you love to do it and you need to remember that somebody loves you and doesn't want
you to do it
3)because it will be just another reason to criticize yourself up when you are done
4)because you have other choices, that was the first lesson, remember? There are always other choices
Things to do when things are hard
1)write a journal or blog entry
2)write a poem
3)call someone (or just hold the phone)
4)go for a walk
5)play with the cat
6)read a book or listen to a book on tape
7) go for a bike ride
9)listen to music or the radio
10)research an obscure topic
11)write an e-mail
12)go be near people (as J. used to say - "let's go make fun of the normal people")
13)do something for someone else
14)HALT (figure out if you feel this way because you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired -- and fix it)
15)do work for work
16)pretend to shop online - fill that online cart and then close the browser - suckers
17)relax, ungrit your teeth, drop your shoulders down and breathe
18)watch a DVD
19)update your blog, not just blog entries
20)cry
21)laugh
22)take your medicine if you need to (that's what drugs are for, you're not any better for not taking them when you need
them)
23)find the "Reason to Live" (yes, blog readers this is a real book by Melody Beattie, whom normal drives me
loopy, but just editted this so it is okay) book and read it, find the cartoon of the teddy bear, read the Blue Days book
24)clean (clean? clean? you must be really depressed if you are cleaning! quick make a mess, hurry, hurry!)
25)take a shower (especially if it has been a while, good lordie, of course you're depressed, you stink!)
26)go next door (this could be really fun if you don't know your neighbors! bring them a fruitcake and say, "welcome
to the neighborhood!" pretend you don't know they aren't new)
27)read some other people's blogs
28)go to the healthy place dot com chat room and lurk
29)draw, paint, sketch, scult, finger paint
30)sew (if you can find the sewing machine under all the junk in the other room)
30a) find the sewing machine
31)re-write this list
32)add things to this list
33) eat a banana (if you had to add something, why this?)
33a) go to the store and buy bananas
32)start over at the top of this list
Note to blog readers:
For the record I should probably say that there are hotlines and things you can call if you need them and that if you
are seriously going to hurt yourself you had better call 911 right now or walk your butt into the emergency room, but you
probably knew that, right?
blog entry from 12/07/05
21.95% of the people who visit this blog are looking for a reason to live.
In Reston, Virginia; Fort Collins, Colorado; Lombard, Illinois; Bay City, Michigan; Henderson, Nevada; San Diego, California;
Ontario, Canada; and Bucharest, Romania someone is looking for a reason to live.
At Brandeis University, the University of Maryland and the Minneapolis College of Art And Design someone is looking for
a reason to live.
At Dana Farber Cancer Center, Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital and a Department of Youth Service Facility in Chicago
someone is looking for a reason to live.
Someone from all of these places looked here for a reason to live in the past 24 hours. If you think that you are alone
in the search for meaning and purpose when you visit this blog you should know you are not. If one thing is for certain YOU
ARE NOT ALONE.
You might find a reason to live or you might just find a reason to wait a while and give living another chance. One thing
is for certain, you won't ever feel better if you give up now.
If you can't find a reason to at least wait and give life another chance then call your emergency service number (usually
9-1-1 in the USA) or walk into an Emergency Room at a hospital. If you can wait then in the morning (most of you seem to
search for a reason to live in the middle of the night) then make an appointment with a/your therapist and try something simple
to soothe the pain right now.
Call a friend, go for a walk, run into the store and buy yourself some flowers. What the heck, google 1-800-flowers
and send some to yourself, at least you will want to wait around and see them. Go watch your kids sleep or cuddle up with
your pet. No kids or pet? Time to do something about that, google www.petfinder.org and start looking. No pets allowed
or don't like animals? Go to www.homestarrunner.com and laugh at the funny cartoons. Don't like cartoons? Go to audible.com
and download a book to listen to or go to your favorite music site (Itunes? Yahoo music?) and find a song to soothe you.
(Try Janis Joplin's Little Girl Blue). None of that your style? Try praying, writing a letter, drawing a picture or learning
to cross your eyes. Go to Bored.com and try all the different sites listed until you laugh.
I hope you feel better soon.
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