Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

I think maybe

Here is my ideal schedule:

Wake up
Breakfast
Long hot bath
Nap
Lunch
Wrap up in fleece blanket, watch a little tv
Nap
Dinner
Wrap up in fleece blanket, read a magazine
Ponder a long hot bath
Bed

I'm thinking perhaps this suggests a touch of what the clinicians call seasonal affective disorder. I lost my DSM-IV, but a quick Google search gets us the symptoms. Let's see...

Sleep more/difficulty staying awake
Except that it's crappy sleep full of bad dreams, but yeah. Especially that difficulty staying awake thing. Is 7:30 an unreasonable bedtime?

Fatigue often incapacitating/slump in energy in the afternoon
Yep. If I haven't gotten something finished before lunch, come back and see me tomorrow.

Craving for carbohydrates and sweet foods
I was going to say no, not really, then I remembered the Macaroni & Cheese thing.

Weight increase
This I actually have been able to reign in, but it's taking an effort. If I ate macaroni & cheese at the rate I wanted to, I'd be up ten pounds easy by now.

Difficult to concentrate often with additional memory impairment
Huh? I don't remember. (In seriousness: I feel like I've lost 50 IQ points.)

Irritability, problems relating to people. Withdrawal and isolation.
Leave me alone.

Stress and anxiety; sense of misery.
Didn't you cry because that stupid whale that swam up the Thames died?

Hmmm.

The prescription?

Boat drinks
Boys in the band ordered boat drinks
Visitors scored on the home rink
Everything seems to be wrong

Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap air fare
I gotta to fly to Saint Somewhere
I'm close to bodily harm

Twenty degrees and the hockey game's on
Nobody cares they are way too far gone
Screamin', "boat drinks," something to keep 'em all warm

Or maybe I'll get some of those fancy lightbulbs.

Posted by Nic at January 26, 2006 06:58 PM | TrackBack