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Old May 23, 2010, 08:46 AM
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You know, I've wondered this a lot myself. Whether or not people actually ever fully recover from depression or if it's just something that they're stuck managing day in and day out much like diabetes.

I wonder if something that prevents us depressives from actually recovering is our unreasonable expectation to be happy all the time. Maybe you dont have this expectation, but I seem to have it. I feel like everyone else is so much happier and joyful than me.

I hear of so many people having to manage this disease that we have, Depression, that it makes me wonder if there is ever hope for complete recovery. I am not entirely sure what the face of depression looks like.

Perhaps it's something to read up more on.
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“In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”-William Styron
Thanks for this!
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