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This has been a very difficult autumn. I'm depressed beyond words and the crying jags are starting. It hasn't been this bad since the switch clicked to depression nearly two years ago.

So much of it is sunlight. I try to make certain that I get some every day, but it's been particularly dark and damp this year. Unlike London or Brussels, I don't have a reason to be outside every day for twenty to forty minutes no matter the weather. It's so easy to stay inside staring at the white spaces on my computer.

A walk a day? Where to? Simple exercise would do alot for me. It's not like I don't have videos and DVDs to help me with it, but somehow the will is lacking.

That's a big part of it, I know. My body loves to move. Stretching is as sensual as eating or sex, but the first few days/weeks after not having done it in awhile is always fraught with pulled muscles, fatigue, weird moments of zero blood sugar while my metabolism adjusts.

And yet, light. Exercise. Sleep. How much of this pain would go away if I could get enough of three such simple things?

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I also have a hard time motivating myself to go outside--particularly since I became unemployed. However, what I ended up doing is cultivating a habit of going out everyday around 3pm to run errands - whether it's post office, grocery store or going to the bank. There is always some little thing I need to do. Once I got into this habit, it because routine to get myself dressed and ready by 3, so I could go out and do my stuff.

An excellent idea. At the very least I can head to the VietNamese restaurant down the street and have more vegetables than I might otherwise get.

Thank you.