Acceptance – It makes me positively happy when people accept me for who I am, limitations, weaknesses, strengths and all.

Awake – This word makes me feel positively happy because I am awake. I was checked out from the world during the years that my Major Depression was at its worst. I basically slept walked my way through life. I was not mentally awake enough to be aware of what was going on around me. Once my depression symptoms began to subside – due in part to the Effexor I was taking – I still spent a great deal of my time sleeping, or thinking about sleeping. The Effexor was causing my diabetes to be out of control, and the high blood glucose that I was living with caused me to feel sleepy all of the time. I am on a different depression medication now, and I can make it through most days without a nap. I am awake and aware.

Alive – This word makes me feel positively happy because I am alive. After spending so much time wanting to die, and trying to kill myself, I have reached a point where I am happy, and thankful to be alive. The other reason this makes me feel positively happy is that my dad is alive. He gave me quite the scare this week with some heart trouble he currently is in the hospital for.

Shortly after I wrote this word, and why it made me feel happy my father passed away.