Posted by llrrrpp on August 30, 2006, at 20:36:30
In reply to Re: Self-Esteem suffering from depression recovery » llrrrpp, posted by Phillipa on August 30, 2006, at 18:50:23
I bet everyone responds to depression in different ways. It's kind of like how everyone gets different symptoms from the same flu virus.
Well, I guess one of the big topics in my psychotherapy these days is that my expectations of others and myself are too high, and too unrealistic.
This leads to perpetual dissapointment in how others treat me.
It also leads to interpreting almost anything I do as a failure, a lack of accomplishing the goal. Am I a failure because I am not an MD? Well on a good day, I'd say- no way! you don't wanna be a doctor. And on a bad day, I'd say- you're smart enough to be an MD, if you had any kind of work ethic, you would have made a great doctor; you just chickened out because you thought grad school would be easier. hahaha. Now my college friends are wrapping up their residencies and finally earning some money, having no problems finding jobs, or any of that stuff.
phillipa, do you do any kind of therapy? Is there anything that works for you?
-ll
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