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Originally Posted by zinco14532323
Or lets take my depression as an example. This is how it happens. One day a switch goes off in my brain and I go into a horrible deep suicidal depression. How long it lasts varies. I can hardly get out of bed and sleep a lot and so on and so on....all the symptoms.
Now do I have any control over that switch? Is it a choice, and I choose to be depressed? Or do I have a choice over how long it lasts? I will tell you no way in hell do I have a choice in the matter. I can write you a book on everything I have done to treat it, yet the switch still gets thrown. I have a life time of this happening and have never been able to choose or think my way out of it.
Do you have any control over paranoid thoughts that pop into your head. Is it a choice? Can you just choose for them to got away and they do? I doubt it is that simple.
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i would say depression is a completely different animal. i firmly believe that in that case , yes you have no choice, i cannot tell you that i have a total understanding because my moods swing all over the place, i cannot control what causes them..but i can limit my exposure to triggers.my anxiety, my paranoia, my abandonment issues i cannot control what causes them at all.
but i can limit my exposure to what triggers me, sometimes that's not enough.
do you have a choice over how long it last..i think not, i cannot say..quite honestly i am not educated enough on the matter to elaborate deeply on depression..it is a feeling i have felt but only for brief periods of time, my heart goes out to you..i cannot imagine what it would be like to be down for long periods of time.
i have no control over the thoughts that pop into my head..per se
but through mindfulness and meditation i can choose not to let them control me( which of course i don't do nearly enough!).
all i can say is i feel depression as well as BPD are quite different from addiction i believe.
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