Mood Watch - 4

Woke up this morning feeling like a normal human being again, whatever that is. In my case, it means waking up from a good night's sleep -- 7 or 8 hours -- and wanting to get up and on with my day. Over the years I've learned to trust this as a good augury.

It also highlights the nature of my depressions. They are not, as some might suppose, like the swinging of a pendulum, with a series of up tempo days eventually giving way, gradually, to a series of bad one, and then slowly vice versa. In my case, depressions arrive and depart quite abruptly, like wading in the ocean and suddenly stepping into a hole in the bottom.

Anyways, it's about time. I've got a lot of chores to catch up on.