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Originally Posted by melissa.recovering
... When I was going through my worst ever depressive episode, my mind felt like I wasn't capable of making any choices, even the most basic of choices. Somehow I doubt I would have been able to form the thinking of "It's temporary, I'll get through this".
Now that I'm relatively stable though, on medications and attending both individual and group therapy, I can see how important our perspective is.
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Yeah. I get in states that
no amount of willpower will overcome. Beat myself up for years and years over not being able to do that. Like you say, having not even a
sense of choice. Meds allowed me to get to a place where it's possible to see/think that there even
is any kind of choice and to be able to make use of that. It does help for sure, because in seeing the choice, acting on it in small ways, it can play into bigger actions that have positive impact on stability. You know, positive building on positive. All components working in sync. Which is no guarantee that something won't go wonky and send me "back there", but it can definitely help to extend expanses of stability.