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Category: Sadness – Depression

It’s the Small Things

Posted by Ryllandra on January 5, 2020January 5, 2020 in Escapades with Crochet, Experiments, Getting Through the Day, Moving Forward, Sadness - Depression

It’s a wonderful thing when the idea to adapt something to your own ends works out! For quite some time I have wanted to crochet a long, lacy jacket, I even had the pattern picked out. I just couldn’t bring…

More Than Just Preserving

Posted by Ryllandra on November 25, 2019December 26, 2019 in Cooking, Experiments, Getting Through the Day, Sadness - Depression

I do so love being able to open the fridge door to grab a container of something I’ve made. It’s especially helpful to experience that feeling when the awful dark clouds start descending, knowing I can do something good and…

Time – Always Watching, Always Waiting.

Posted by Ryllandra on October 21, 2019December 22, 2019 in Sadness - Depression

Time has a way of moving on even if we cannot, or perhaps don’t want to, keep up. These past few months, not to mention the last ten years, but for now I’m focusing on the past few months, have…

Gray Days, Gray Yarn, Gray Shawl

Posted by Ryllandra on September 12, 2019June 27, 2020 in Escapades with Crochet, Getting Through the Day, Sadness - Depression

One of the most impressive aspects of crochet is the way it can be used to focus the mind on a singular task, and thus, to push aside those all too constant unwanted thoughts. Sometimes what’s needed is a complicated,…

Crocheting the Blues Away

Posted by Ryllandra on August 27, 2019January 5, 2020 in Escapades with Crochet, Getting Through the Day, Moving Forward, Sadness - Depression

The effort it takes to do some of those things you know you should, but just don’t have the where-with-all to do at any given moment, deserves recognition and reward, at least in my world it does! Dentistry is probably…

Migraine, Migraine, go away …

Posted by Ryllandra on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 in Getting Through the Day, Moving Forward, Sadness - Depression

and don’t come again another day! Since that visit to the dentist back in June I’ve had a near continuous migraine, only the level of it varies. My latest meds hide some of the pain behind a wall, which is…

“It’s no use screaming …”

Posted by Ryllandra on July 18, 2019August 4, 2019 in Moving Forward, Sadness - Depression

“It’s no use screaming, there’s no one to hear you.” These words are still as true today as they were the day they were said to me by the person who abducted and assaulted me. It’s been 47 years and…

“Drifting Between Shadows” Short Story Collection

Posted by Ryllandra on March 7, 2019March 19, 2019 in Getting Through the Day, Publications, Sadness - Depression

Release Date: 10 April 2019. A collection of short stories from the Other Side of Life. Pre-Release orders available now. “Constance … Little Connie “ A Guardian Angel tells of her experiences watching over her human charge from birth to…

A Peculiar Week!

Posted by Ryllandra on February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 in Getting Through the Day, Sadness - Depression

Sometime in January I decided to make 2019 a year for me, to do things for me, without guilt or recriminations. Not outlandish, or extravagant stuff, more along the lines of self care and self nurture along with a bit…

Some Days are just Awful

Posted by Ryllandra on February 4, 2019February 24, 2019 in Getting Through the Day, Sadness - Depression

Today is one of those days that began in an okay-ish way but determinedly kept slipping lower and lower on the scale of okay-ness. It’s afternoon now and I’ve closed the doors and windows, drawn the window shades. I was…

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