Thanks, Ashley, for your searching questions, but I'm just making a fool of myself here and monopolising yet another thread. Time for Pete to shut up for a while
How would I answer if it was me talking and not my depression?
I've thought about that, and assuming that I can separate myself from how I feel...in a perfect world, with a free choice of how to spend my time, how would I spend it and what would I do?
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It's no good, I just don't know. There is nothing about which I daydream, or think '...if only I had the time to do that, or see this, or meet him or her...'
I'm probably not unique in this, but I don't feel I have a lot of choice as to how I spend most of my time. I have to go to work, I have to do domestic tasks. The leisure time I have - well, I'm mostly too tired, physically and mentally, to do much constructive with that at all. I feel dissatisfied that I've wasted my free time but have no idea what activities would make me feel that I hadn't wasted it. Things I should enjoy just don't 'stick', don't stimulate as they should, and I get bored.
Hello!
If you are just joining us in these discussions feel free to post your thoughts and say hello! We use these discussions to get to know members as individuals and not just as their disorder or addiction. Remember, you are not your disorder.
This week’s question relates to our last getting to know members discussion where we asked, how are you spending your time? Who are you with? What are you doing and where are you?
Through answering this question you can get an idea of what you are making a priority in your life. How you are spending your time can relate to what you value. If you noticed you spend most of your time on things that you do not value and/or do not want to be your priority then how could you be better spending your time?
In other words, how can you be spending more of your time to reflect what you value?
