Is depression contagious?

[Lulu54]

I ask because it sure seems to be spreading around here.  There seem to be an unusually large number of forum members struggling this week.  

Here's my suggestion for a quick pick me up.........  sing a song, any song will do, but sing it with your full lung power.  Singing releases all sorts of happy endorphines in your body.  

Go on and give it a try - you know you want to. And humming doesn't count .....LOL

Anyone else have other suggestions for shaking these winter blues that seem to have descended in full force?

Let us know what song you pick! I'm singing Wonko's favorite - High Hopes.


Lulu

[PastorDan]

While we have depression on the table, has anyone heard of depression presenting as the first symptom of what might eventually be realized is MS?  It's only been a couple of months that I've thought about MS as a possibility, but I've had a couple of nasty bouts of major depression in years gone by, and wondered if those could be related.

[Lulu54]

PD - Depression is a very common MS symptom.  If you don't get depression as a symptom of the MS, it seems to eventually hit as a situational symptom.  The statistics are very high for depression and MS.  

Rena,
The hills are alive! I love all the songs from Sound of Music.  
Lulu

[PastorDan]

I could sing practically anything from The Sound of Music; that has to rank among the best musical films of all time.  "My Favorite Things" would be very high on my list, too.  

To return to the thread topic, all of the suggestions I've read so far are excellent.  Since I can't yet move to a sunnier clime, I'll go back through them and try to practice what y'all preach!

[Karen99]

Laughter is the best medicine.  The comedy channel, especially the Mind of Mencia.  He makes me laugh at myself and everyone else too.  He somehow puts things into perspective for me.  I walk away not taking things so seriously.  Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist and his puppets Achmed and Walter lighten my spirits.

The song I love to sing to children is Skidamarinkydoo I love you.  This is a song only people with children or grandchildren would know.  It's the best.  

[wonko]

Karen99:  I don't have kids, I think I still am a kid in lots of ways, so I do know "Skinamarinky rinky dink, skinamarinky doo, I love you..."  


LuLu:  Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant!  My 8th grade science teacher passed out lyrics and had us sing that song and march around the room.  She was one of the key people who influenced the direction of my education and it's a very fond memory for me.  I try to apply the mentality to many sides of life.  

Thanks for thinking of us and to everyone for sharing ideas of how to keep those hopes high.

[nncdalton]

THE WITCHDOCTOR SONG

OOH TO THE EEH TO THE OOH AH AH
TING TANG WALAWALA BING BANG...

Christy D