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Originally Posted by TheOriginalMe
I find reading other people's posts reassuring, not because I want to find someone else unwell, but because I find it so easy to slip into the habit of viewing my depressive symptoms as either made up or as character defects. Other people struggling with the same issues helps remind me that this is a disease and not something anyone would do for kicks.
My toolkit is somewhat limited because of poor NHS organisation, basically I have medication from my GP. I need so much more than that, but it is all that is available so PC is my lifeline. Posting doesn't help overly much, mostly it feels like whinging, but replies do help. One good thing about posting is that I now have a portfolio of evidence about how poor my mood has been for the last month. (I'm too apathetic to keep a proper mood diary).
What else can we offer ourselves??? I wish there was a way to offer hope.
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I guess maybe I am discounting the power of not feeling alone and the power of the validation that what we have is real and we can't help it. It sure is easy to forget and be all ashamed all over again.
@TheOriginalMe I can't for the life of me understand why you guys in the NHS can't get in to see a pdoc and get therapy. That is a messed up mental health system. I think I would fake severe crisis just to fit in their little boxes. I feel like faking suicide crisis and going to the hospital just to fit into social security's little box her in the US. As mental health patients we need a bigger lobby and better services. Not to disparage any other disease but we get short shrift.