Broken Collar Bone and Depressed

[bcipam]

I went through the depression not once but twice (when I originally broke my collarbone and 2 years later when I had surgery to repair it). The first time I didn't stay away from exercising all that long. Within two weeks ( as soon as I could manage wearing a bra somehow) I was in a gym and using a spin bike to keep my legs moving. After the surgery, the doctor forbaded any activity except walking or hiking so I stuck to that for 4 months. There are ways to keep moving, you don't have to ride a bike.

I will be having my colon surgery this coming month and am told no exercise at all for 4 weeks. That sucks! But I do have a million hobbies to occupy my time. Right now really into beading. Find something to d0.

[Duck on Wheels]

In my life depression seems to have had two sources: loss of control (like when I was in hospital with my first baby and the neighbors took over furnishing my apartment for us to come home to ), and physical trauma (like when I had abdominal surgery, or when I broke my ankle ). With a broken collarbone keeping you from doing what you want to do and are accustomed to doing, that would probably entail both trauma and loss of control in one "swell foop". So in my lay opinion, it would be normal to be depressed. One way out, for me, would be to take back control over my life by working actively on the trauma, for instance by choosing some other activity as a work-up towards getting back on the bike.