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Originally Posted by tigerlily84
I see the "Depression Success Stories" on here, and I'm happy for them, truly. But how do you know that you're a success story? I suppose that depends on one's definition of that term. To me, success is when you don't think about dying every day, but maybe I'm thinking too narrowly.
So I was wondering: what is your idea of "success" in terms of keeping your depression and anxiety at bay?
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I don't believe in a 'cure'. I do believe, that there are success stories in managing it, learning to recognize it, knowing what brings it about, and knowing where to turn, and who to turn to.
It is, slightly narrow, to believe it's not about thinking about dying, daily. Once, you are decades apart from those thoughts, it becomes more than just that. Strange to say, but my subconscious/body, has a way of telling me, that I have to deal with certain feelings in the moment, lest I fall back to those old thought patterns. I, literally, will get pain, when I am dealing with overwhelming emotion, and I learned how to effectively get to the route of those feelings, so that they don't consume me. Feelings, that can be brought forth by environmental factors, maybe something in the here and now, that reminds me on a deeper level of feelings that I couldn't possibly had been able to process, effectively, as a teenager.
As far as, anxiety success? I am just going to accept, that, it will show up here and there, for the rest of my life.