Small successes

Categories: news-from-depressionland, tesco-ergo-sum-i-shop-therefore-i-am

Tags: therapy, shopping, autism

Date: 18 December 2008 23:10:08

Nothing much to report other than ongoing Christmas preparations, and the fact that yesterday I wrote a sermon in an hour, and had an unexpected Indian head massage in the evening (owing to son not wanting to go to the Asperger's youth club party in the evening, which meant I could go to the carers' relaxation evening instead).

Today I saw the therapist again - I really am feeling some benefit from CBT, and am hoping she'll let me have the extra six sessions after I've completed the initial ten (today was number eight). I don't quite know how she's done it, as she seems extremely vague and makes only the most hesitant suggestions, but I have begun to believe I have some control over my moods, and that a life with less ambitious goals could actually be better than a life in which I have such aspirations that I constantly set myself up for failure.

I then went to Tesco and did my good deed of the day by 'looking after' a lad with high functioning autism whom I know, and who had lost track of his mother. I don't think he really needed all that much looking after but the staff were clearly worried by him sitting crosslegged on the floor and staring at the toothpastes for a long time. I was able to say I knew him, and to look out for his mother, and eventually they found each other again. It felt good to be somewhat instrumental in this little drama.

Tomorrow night I'll be singing carols in aid of Christian Aid at a local tube station, and then going to meet a Shipmate I haven't seen for years, who is over from the US for Christmas. I may spend the morning baking mince pies for the carol singers to have with their mulled wine (which I also need to make). Domestic goddesshood here I come.