I am grumpy!!!!

Glass it's horrible isn't? I hope something happens / comes along that helps to life you from under your black cloud.

glass; I was just reading another thread and you say you have cut down your HRT recently. Can't help but feel you may have cut back too much too quickly?

Here it is, I found it interesting.

glass I feel for you. I recognise those feelings in myself too. There are times when I have to actively try to 'choose' my mood which is a lot easier said than done. I'm another believer in mindfulness and as Hilda says, we need to develop coping strategies for the darker times.

Have you by any chance seen the Michael Mosely Horizon programme about happiness? I'll go & find a link.

What a good post, Hilda. I must admit that I, too, am a glass-half-empty' type and things can certainly get on top of me. A coping strategy such as you suggest sounds as though it might be very helpful.

glass, I do hope you emerge from your dark cloud soon. It's horrible being grumpy when you aren't normally, I know!

glassortwo I really know how you feel. Dark feelings escalate and can really drag you down. I too have gloomy times when I find one dreary thought seems to snowball into a whole litany of past slights and unhappy events and often ending in really dark memories of great sadness.
I have been reading the 'Mindfullness' book and Ruby Wax's latest offering and, although I am in the early stages of the subject I have found it very helpful to read about the power of these dark thoughts and the damage they can do. What I have found helpful is that these books explain (with useful science based background info) that it is just thoughts, and thoughts are not who we are. I am slowly learning to recognise them, acknowledge them but then say to myself...'well its just a thought so I can unthank it and think of something else. Sounds daft but its beginning to work. I've trained myself to get back to sleep when I wake at 3ish by just going 'don't think...don't think'.
As we get older, those of us with a natural 'glass half empty' look on life cope with so much - hormones, empty nest, loss of parents etc etc. We do need, I feel, strategies to put a little bit of joy back and I do hope you can do that. All the best.

Dear glass, I'm sorry that you're not feeling your usual sunny self at the moment. As someone who I suspect has a similar nature I notice that if I DO get into a grump (a rare occurence) my family feel very uncomfortable and start suddenly becoming 'aware' of me and my needs. I hope this is the case with you and that you're on the receiving end of some TLC until you feel better.

Glass time we all got together for that meet-up! Are you free at all during the school holidays?

glass; is it a menopause sort of thing [much as I hate blaming things on hormones and hellfireanddamnation to any man that suggests it, our hormones do cause us a lot of grief sometimes]. Also, with the hot weather I think most of the population are into their second week without sleeping well and there's a general grumpiness in the air at the moment.

The weepiness is so annoying! Feel it is ridiculous at my age. I know if I go to the doctor I will have a weep and he will think I am a neurotic woman - maybe I am!! In a way it is good to know other people sometimes feel like this. Maybe I am not going nuts!

It must be catching. With the high pollen counts I find I'm more breathless as well. Can't wait to get to sea again where I'm much better. I feel weepy as well. My taxi driver says I'm always grumpy. I'm not a morning person. And after work I'm tired so he's probably right!

We all have days like that, so you feel grumpy today and who knows even tomorrow maybe but don't let it go on too long. If it's not in your nature to feel like this perhaps you could stand back and see why you are feeling like you are.
Are the family putting on you, or are you not feeling well.
I know from bitter experience the last thing you want is some idiot saying. "Cheer up there are folk out there worse off than you. "

glass suggest you just give it a couple of days and see how it goes. Sometimes things just get on top of us and we need to shut out the world for a few days until we get over it.

When I used to get pmt I would scrub the kitchen floor on my hands and knees or do some other physical thing to take out my angst on. The garden grows a lot at this time of year, can you go and hack something?

Oh "glass" sympathy to you. I too am grumpy and weepy and can't be bothered with anything. Have had sciatica for ages and feeling sorry for myself. The hot sticky weather doesn't help! Grump grump grump!

Trip to the GP, maybe, glass?