I have been feeling the same way. I always come up with: I didn't use a coping skill like I should have, I could have done that way better, this medication was working. They said in outpatient therapy, "Take your meds, self care, continue your support groups." If this is what it takes to be mentally healthy and I am doing them, why am I not there yet.

I come up with so many questions, concerns, and thoughts. I get consumed asking all of this of myself. When I saw this post at that point I realized that I do think of this stuff so much. It does keep me from getting to the place I want be. I let it bring me down. I had forgotten how much I have improved and what I have accomplished so far. I did inpatient therapy, I did outpatient therapy, I want to get better, I'm taking my meds, I'm seeing my therapist, I'm going to do marriage counseling, and I'm going to see my pdoc in March.

I guess a success story doesn't have to necassirly be someone who has gone into full remisson and med free. It doesn't have to be someone, who feels "wow I'm not crazy anymore." It would overall just be someone, who is improving or attempting towards the right steps to improvement and a mental well being.