Beginnings

My psychiatrist suggested that I start a blog or something.  So here it is.  I am a 70 year old fat guy who has suffered from depression all my life.  And I mean all my life.  Like many depressed people, getting out of bed and starting your day may be the worst part.  When I was working I had to manage that.  A hot shower always helped me get moving.  I told my doc at the time that I thought body temp had something to do with it.  When you wake up it is a bit lower, but a hot shower will warm you up.  He did not buy into that idea.  I still wonder.  Now that I am retired and have no place to go on most days I can find myself in bed till 2 in the afternoon.  By that time my mood starts to improve and I can lookforward to a mostly depression free remainder of the day, which can go long into the night is I am binge watching something like The Wire or OZ.