Feeling the Rainbow
Have you ever seen a gorgeous rainbow in the sky...that was only one color? A beautiful, calm shade of violet. One color. Always the same. Of course you haven't! Rainbows are meant to have all eight colors of the spectrum...Roy G. Biv. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. (My momma taught me that.) And I've discovered that our emotions are a lot like rainbows - meant to be experienced with the entire spectrum in tact. Happy, sad, angry, surprised, silly, content, frustrated, and a long list of others. I started taking antidepressants many years ago to help me through a 'rough time'. Not only did taking medication not help...I largely attribute the medication with making things even worse. And what typically happens when a dose of medication isn't helping the way 'they' think it should? They change medications or increase the dose. Maybe both, as was my case. I settled in to a 'comfortab...