Posted by TexasChic on April 26, 2006, at 21:42:57
In reply to It's really nice to not think bad thoughts :-), posted by Deneb on April 21, 2006, at 19:35:10
Its so good to see you out of that frame of mind. I find your change very inspirational. Like the others said though, you will encounter brief periods of darkness, its just part of being human. But the difference is you'll be able to come out of them! That's how it is with me anyway. Sometimes I get really distraught and feel like I'm going to lose my mind once and for all. And when that first happens after going a long period without it occuring, its pretty damn scary. Then time passes and I calm down enough to figure out what to do about the situation. It took several episodes for me to really be convinced that when these things happen, I'm not going to stay that way. It will just take time to get out of those old thought processes.
As for meds and therapy, for me, meds took care of the inbalance enough for me to think clearly and actually figure out how to solve my problems. And that's where therapy comes in, because people in our position just aren't used to trying to solve our problems, and the meds can't do that for us. So we need to be taught how to handle them in a healthy way.
Hope your exams are going well. Hang in there in school. Believe me, its much harder to get back into it if you ever get out.
-T
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