Hi Ralph,

I am glad that your depression is "taking easy on you". You mentioned about acceptance. That is a huge progress. I hope you were talking about the things that we can't change because that is when we need to accept the reality.

I can relate to feeling isolated. With me it usually happens on Sunday when I have nothing to do. Saturdays I am usually busy doing errands, but most Sundays are a nightmare for me. Feel very lonely and empty.

I'm so happy for you Ralph. I agree that it will be a good experiment. Just remember there are always other factors that can cause or add to your feelings of isolation. There is no day of the week that makes me feel a little lonely but a particular frame a mind. What does a normal saturday consist of that you might be missing?

Lana, yes I was talking about acceptance of the past. I have a tendency to behave self destructively when I am too angry about things that have already happened.

Frazzled, I don't have much of a social life so what my typical Saturday is lacking is any sort of interaction with others on a social level. For me, the weekend is when there is time for social gatherings, but I don't have enough connections to have much to do on the weekends. Most of the people I know have kids so they spend all their spare time doing family stuff and their social life is to be with people who have same age kids, not really anything I can relate to.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I used to be like that too especially when my OWN behavior would make things worse than they were before and instead of accepting the outcome of what happened, i would go toward self distraction up

until I learned to accept things, but most importantly to forgive myself. Not sure if it all made sense to you.