Comments on: I’m back. http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/ Always Leave Room for Dessert! Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Julia http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-384 Julia Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:30:57 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-384 Thank you so much Vi, hubby and I are both glad we made it through as well ;) And your encouragement for others brings tears to my eyes.... Thank you. xo Thank you so much Vi, hubby and I are both glad we made it through as well ;)
And your encouragement for others brings tears to my eyes…. Thank you. xo

]]> By: Viola pie-ola http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-383 Viola pie-ola Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:42:40 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-383 Welcome back indeed. Your words are so powerful and so important. I'm glad that you & hubby have been able to hold on to each other through all of it. Please, anyone who's reading this, if it happens to you, please try to reach out no matter how hard it seems, no matter how futile it feels, no matter if it's a friend of twenty years or twenty minutes. For Gilbert. Welcome back indeed. Your words are so powerful and so important. I’m glad that you & hubby have been able to hold on to each other through all of it. Please, anyone who’s reading this, if it happens to you, please try to reach out no matter how hard it seems, no matter how futile it feels, no matter if it’s a friend of twenty years or twenty minutes. For Gilbert.

]]> By: Julia http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-378 Julia Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:30:15 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-378 Mardi - you're so sweet. It is good to be back, and getting back into the swing of things online. It had been so long, it took me half an hour to remember how to post & format....lol thanks for the hugs - right back at ya! xox Mardi – you’re so sweet. It is good to be back, and getting back into the swing of things online. It had been so long, it took me half an hour to remember how to post & format….lol
thanks for the hugs – right back at ya! xox

]]> By: Mardi@eatlivetravelwrite http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-375 Mardi@eatlivetravelwrite Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:24:50 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-375 Julia, sweetie. I was wondering what had happened to you - you popped into my mind the other week and I didn't see any updates to your blog since May, then I realised stupid Twitter had unfollowed you for me and I had made a note to go back to your blog and now I come back to see this. I am so so sorry for everything you have gone through but very very glad that you have it "out there". It sounds like you are on the road to healing. Sending many many hugs XOX Julia, sweetie. I was wondering what had happened to you – you popped into my mind the other week and I didn’t see any updates to your blog since May, then I realised stupid Twitter had unfollowed you for me and I had made a note to go back to your blog and now I come back to see this. I am so so sorry for everything you have gone through but very very glad that you have it “out there”. It sounds like you are on the road to healing. Sending many many hugs XOX

]]> By: Julia http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-371 Julia Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:17:16 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-371 Alessio! Thank you so much - you are right, having a good doctor and being diagnosed is very important! Getting diagnosed quickly can be so hard in this situation, especially when most people suffering from depression either A) don't realize it, B) dismiss their feelings as "just having an off day" or C) are afraid to be diagnosed..... I am guilty of all three. I was so very much not myself when I finally got to meet you in person my dear. You will definitely see me on your side of the pond again, and I you will get to meet the real me - the really fun one! ;) love & hugs Julia Alessio! Thank you so much – you are right, having a good doctor and being diagnosed is very important! Getting diagnosed quickly can be so hard in this situation, especially when most people suffering from depression either A) don’t realize it, B) dismiss their feelings as “just having an off day” or C) are afraid to be diagnosed….. I am guilty of all three.

I was so very much not myself when I finally got to meet you in person my dear. You will definitely see me on your side of the pond again, and I you will get to meet the real me – the really fun one! ;)

love & hugs
Julia

]]> By: Julia http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-370 Julia Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-370 Astrid, Simone - thank you both so much for your kind words and support. No one can possibly know what is going on inside another person's mind, especially when they have only just met. I was in so much shock to find myself in such a dark place mentally when I was surrounded by so many great people and doing so many great things - I honestly didn't know what to do. If it had to happen, I only wish it could have happened when it wouldn't have taken my focus away from what we were all in Weimar to do - learn, grow & make new friends. I'm glad I still got those those three things before everything went sideways on me. I am truly sorry that you have both seen depression touch your lives - I don't wish this on anyone, but it is so much more common than any of us know. Love and hugs to you both xoxoxo Julia ...Simone - every time I go into my YAY-peg folder, I think of you and smile ;) Astrid, Simone – thank you both so much for your kind words and support. No one can possibly know what is going on inside another person’s mind, especially when they have only just met. I was in so much shock to find myself in such a dark place mentally when I was surrounded by so many great people and doing so many great things – I honestly didn’t know what to do. If it had to happen, I only wish it could have happened when it wouldn’t have taken my focus away from what we were all in Weimar to do – learn, grow & make new friends. I’m glad I still got those those three things before everything went sideways on me.

I am truly sorry that you have both seen depression touch your lives – I don’t wish this on anyone, but it is so much more common than any of us know.

Love and hugs to you both
xoxoxo
Julia

…Simone – every time I go into my YAY-peg folder, I think of you and smile ;)

]]> By: Simone http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-369 Simone Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:16:51 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-369 Sweet sweet Julia.... In a way I feel bad that we - apparently - did not notice what was happening when we were all together in Germany! I've recently had two of my closest friends diagnosed with depression too so I have experienced the effect of this terrible illness that a lot of people don't understand. I guess it is hard to understand until it hits you or someone close to you. I've also always thought that it would be something you could control until the people I would never have thought susceptible "caught" it and it turned out to be quite different. Thanks for sharing your story so honestly as I'm sure it will be of benefit to a LOT of people out there that feel alone or misunderstood. Hope you continue to feel better! Hugs Simone Sweet sweet Julia…. In a way I feel bad that we – apparently – did not notice what was happening when we were all together in Germany! I’ve recently had two of my closest friends diagnosed with depression too so I have experienced the effect of this terrible illness that a lot of people don’t understand. I guess it is hard to understand until it hits you or someone close to you. I’ve also always thought that it would be something you could control until the people I would never have thought susceptible “caught” it and it turned out to be quite different.
Thanks for sharing your story so honestly as I’m sure it will be of benefit to a LOT of people out there that feel alone or misunderstood. Hope you continue to feel better!
Hugs
Simone

]]> By: Astrid http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-368 Astrid Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:00:13 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-368 OMIGOSH, this was a lot you've been going through, I am sorry you had to go through all this. While I really enjoyed meeting you in Weimar I had no idea you were feeling that way :( we were thinking you were in the middle of moving elsewhere in the world while you were going through this emotional nightmare. I am glad that you are back and feeling better. Depression still too often misunderstood and accompanied by guilt which does not help either - talking about it and raising awareness is the only way to help those around us who struggle with this. and yes I am talking out of my own experience. I am happy that you found your way back into blogging and am looking forward to see this blog come to life again!! OMIGOSH, this was a lot you’ve been going through, I am sorry you had to go through all this. While I really enjoyed meeting you in Weimar I had no idea you were feeling that way :(

we were thinking you were in the middle of moving elsewhere in the world while you were going through this emotional nightmare. I am glad that you are back and feeling better.

Depression still too often misunderstood and accompanied by guilt which does not help either – talking about it and raising awareness is the only way to help those around us who struggle with this. and yes I am talking out of my own experience.

I am happy that you found your way back into blogging and am looking forward to see this blog come to life again!!

]]> By: Alessio http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/2012/02/im-back/#comment-367 Alessio Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:35:29 +0000 http://www.alwaysleaveroomfordessert.com/?p=939#comment-367 Reading these words really touched my heart. I am really really really happy and relieved that you pulled through this long and dark tunnel. Having a good doc and a prompt diagnosis is extremely important and I am glad you got it! Welcome back with us, I really hope to be seeing you ASAP in this side of the pond :-) Missed ya!! Reading these words really touched my heart. I am really really really happy and relieved that you pulled through this long and dark tunnel.
Having a good doc and a prompt diagnosis is extremely important and I am glad you got it!
Welcome back with us, I really hope to be seeing you ASAP in this side of the pond :-)
Missed ya!!

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