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I thought it would be nice to add a gratitude thread to this section.

For me, gratitude is something that can really help me feel grounded again when I'm really struggling with the depression. It's important not to take that and turn it in on yourself for example, "I have so much to be grateful for why am I so depressed?". But just to use it as an anchor and to help you keep things in perspective for yourself, and to try to move you away from the negative thoughts of depression and towards the positive thoughts of gratitude and compassion.

You guys should join in on it if you want, and see if we can help ourselves feel a little bit better by forgetting what we are missing and remembering what we do have


So today I am grateful for my mother. She is honest to god the strongest and bravest person I will ever meet. I am also grateful for the comfort of the chair I am sitting on, the ability to communicate to people who understand all over the world, and for DU as the platform to bring us together.[/u]

I'm grateful for all the teachers I have had throughout the course of my life, from lecturers, to school teachers, to my siblings, friends, so many people here, my therapist, myself, and all the people of the future who I'm yet to meet and learn something from

Today I've been grateful for the simple beauty of music, its relaxing effect on my body mind and soul.

I just want to say JJ, that I think this post is right on. Even though I'm not in a state where I can contribute right now, I will be, and I will, because this is an essential part of emotional well being.

Frame I'm glad to hear you're on board Yes, do add whenever you want to, I hope you can get some relief soon, thinking of you

Today I looked outside the window for the first time in as long as I can remember! It was just looking at the grass and some hedges in the garden but it really did look beautiful. I'd say I'm pretty grateful for that!

Edit: Just realized how bloody pretentious this made me look x]

Blaine not at all!!

Thats a wonderful beautiful thing to be grateful for. Gratitude is gratitude and its in noticing it that I think can help us feel better in the depression and stuff.

I think being grateful for nature is awesome. Its beautiful

Not pretentious *hugs*

Oh today I've been grateful for... space. And for being able to have that space. Ive used the today to turn some negatives into positives which ive been able to do cos the people around me have given me the space to do so. Woo

Today, I've been, I am grateful for all help of people who somehow penetrate this force field of despair; people that appreciate me when I can't appreciate myself and keep the wheels turning one more day.

I let them know when I can. Somehow, they seem to know when I can't.

Thank you.

I'm grateful for quite mornings. And Crosby, Stills, and Nash; I don't think we realize how musical superstars suffer to bring us their music. Sure, their compensated, and I sense they're driven by their own demons to create, but they suffer just the same. I'm grateful just now.

I don't know who to thank, still, I'm grateful for quite mornings. I couldn't make it without one or two every once and a while.

And I'm grateful for days I can look forward, where the horizon isn't a thin red line surrounded by black; where the work people entrust with me feels like an oportunity.

I'm grateful there are days when food doesn't tatse like sawdust in my mouth; when I believe that my needs are provided for; when I look around me and think people would
wish me to be well.

I'm grateful for the pain and suffering. Maybe the suffering isn't necessary but the pain is. That's what I believe anyway. I think that everyone receives just about the same amount of pleasure as they do pain. (Although believing it is not always seeing.) And so, Yup relief is on the way (I sincerely hope).

Suffering on the other hand is something we inflict on ourselves. Suffering is just one option for what to do with the pain. I stumbled on a quote this week. Please excuse the monotheism if it's not your bag, but I thought it worth sharing.

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

My apologies for highjacking this post.
I'm grateful for JJ starting it.
I'll try to be quite now.

I am grateful for the 26 years (as of July 11!) that my wife and I have been married. What a woman!

Great idea jj,
Lately I've been so caught up in my b/s, sometimes I forget that I have a wonderful sister who will proud of me no matter what. I also take for granted that I still have a really good job. And although I've been panicking about attending a close friends wedding this weekend, I'm grateful to have friends that include me in their special moments.

Thanks for reminding me!!!