I haven’t touched my knitting since this whole depression thing started but today I bought a skein of yarn in a color to match my mother’s new sofa and started on a knitted clock for her.
I really need to finish those socks I started but just haven’t felt like it. The clock is something pretty simple as well as something different.
I still have to find the cork backing and actual clock mechanism itself, but for now I can work on the knitted part.
Good for you! She’ll like that.
Great! Ask any knitter… we all have ufo’s of somesort somewhere… hehehe the one I had left I gave away… kinda cheating, but hey she loves it.
That is awesome knitting her a clock. What a great idea. I know she’ll love it!.
Glad you’re doing better… it takes time… I’m glad you’re taking it slow steps… The imbalance will work itself out w/ the meds.
Big bear hugs… 
Mason,
You might try Hobby Lobby or Michaels. I think I saw clock kits at HL.
Mason is doing a clock…a “timely” gesture
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A knitted clock? Huh. That sounds neat!
Thanks, I think she’ll like it.
Thanks. I think the meds are slowly starting to do their thing.
Yeah i’m going to check at HL when I get back up to WI if I can’t locate one around here in the next couple of days.
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Yeah I think so too. I got the idea from a thread posted here.
Hey there - great that you started knitting again - I know how hard it is to get the motivation in that state. Picking it up and starting is usually the hardest part, and having something to aim at works well. But remember not to beat yourself up about not getting things finished or not doing enough - it’s supposed to be a fun thing and in depression anything can turn into something else to feel crap about. So enjoy it when you feel like you can, and look forward to it when you don’t - and hope you’re feeling better soon hugs
Fi xx
Mason, Please post pictures of the clock when you are done. I 
the clock when it was posted the other day. I was thinking of doing one for my Dad who clocks.
Glad to hear you are back at it.
I have/had Depression. I was on the same Drug you are on now, but it did not work for me. Over the last 5 years I was on about 4 different drugs. The last one,Cymbalta… Just about did me in. I got hooked on it… bad… It took me 2 months to wing my self off of it. Now I not on any thing. :woohoo:Giving my body a rest. But I do know that it help me be more ME… Right now I am going to the gym, which helps alot and knitting,xxx that help me also. Plus I oil paint and do pottery. All those thing are my new drug.:yay:
Best wishes to you Mason.
PLUS!!!
Knitting keeps the ol’ hands busy and away from the smokes!
Yippee!!!
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Give it time, it’ll happen just the way it’s supposed to…
LL
Forgot to say - I just got new meds so we can get better together 
Been on the same ones for about 7 years that saved my life - but there’s been a piece of the puzzle missing and hopefully this one is it - I can be me again 
(still mad, but in a cute, quirky way ;-))
Fi xx
It can be hard to find the right drug or combination of drugs to deal with your specific imbalance in just the right way. I’m hoping this Wellbutrin will be right for me but only time will tell.
Mason, it’s good to hear that you are having a positive result, and this thread is opening my eyes a little too, so thank you for that. I’ve been suffering from depression for a few years now, but refuse to be medicated. I always figured there must be a deeper problem that I could sort out to fix myself (but I don’t see counsellors either - way too expensive, so I’ve just sorta learnt to live with it, which isn’t all that fun), so you are educating me a little with this conversation. And I feel better that I’m not the only one who swings way up and way down (way down most of the time) - I have this tendancy to want to burst into tears for no reason most of the time, well no good reason I can see anyways.
Hugs to you!
:woot:So glad to read that your knitting again… enjoy seeing your posts… I seen the knitted clock post and have been thinking on that… I gotta get some things off the needles first though… and then off the to do list…:teehee:
It’s a real medical problem with real physical causes. You really should be examined and tested to rule out thyroid or other possible problems as there are many reasons for depression. It’s a treatable illness and getting treatment can greatly improve your quality of life.
My doctor wants to medicate me - but it was never in my vision for myself to be on meds, and I’m worried that I’ll have to be on them for the rest of my life, but your right, it’s probably better than desperately trying to find the energy to be ‘into’ life most days. Hearing from others the positive results they’ve had is really making me think that I should give it a go, and to hell with the stigma that (only I) will place over my head.