excellent therapy [posted as twisted_eros, Nov.08]

A lovely man, who shall remain nameless, found twisted_eros' blogs, put two and two together, took charge and made things so much better...

To anyone feeling a little low right now, perhaps the following will work for you... Its certainly surprised me tonight.

First - write for 30 minutes, long-hand, about all the things you're grateful for. Don't stop writing for 30 minutes. You'll be surprised that you mostly can. Repeat things if you have to. At the end of 30 minutes, stop and read it out.

Second - write for 10 minutes, long-hand, all the things you love. I found this harder but actually there were things that weren't even on the first list.

Now, i have to read both lists before i go to sleep and when i wake up, and keep them with me during the day and if i'm feeling low, refer to them... When i was in my funk the last few days, i didn't think there was anything to be grateful for, i only saw the crap. But there really is and it really isn't as bad as all that. There's a lot of good. A lot of reasons for being glad.

Thank you, you know who you are  xxx