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I believe that each of us has to choose their own definition of success. Sometimes success is getting out of bed and doing the self-care we need to do despite our symptoms. Sometimes success is simply accepting that we have an illness and need to treat it. That itself took me years. Success for me is doing the self-care and committing to other needed treatment. That does include meds for me, but I still adjust them and this time they helped me out of a moderate to severe depression without needing hospitalization, a success. At times, I am symptom free and those days success is the commitment to pursuing my hopes and dreams. My definitions of success are varied, but aren't they all success?
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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.
Last edited by Merlin; Feb 11, 2012 at 03:34 PM.
Reason: Clarifying sentances
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