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Originally Posted by Tmac
I am stuck in a depressive black hole for several days now. Before you ask yes I am taking my meds. But what I really want is to be normal again no meds no moods like I am having. Depression SUCKS!
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Can I ever empathize with that. I often find myself thinking "Why Me!" In order to move past those thoughts, I have had to focus on the positives of my illness. I can think and feel past the bounds of normality. I can get much accomplished in my mania and get remotivated, and in my depressions I can sit back and recharge and evaluate how realistic the motivation was. It would be preferable to not have to view the world in this way, but doing so allows me to move forward.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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