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redbandit · Jun 17, 2014, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by thickntired

Hi,

I am trying to live in the solution instead of the problem - if that makes many sense. If you could go back in time to give yourself advice what would that entail? Or if you could offer support/guidance to another person with mental illness.

I would say, you can't change the past. Learn from mistakes and don't obsess over what I will never be able to change. I also have zero control over the future. Rather than creating one hundred sceneries for what could lay in wait and live in now.

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I thought that being diagnosed would mean there would be some "miraculous solution." I had already diagnosed myself correctly, it took my dr a few years longer to get it. But getting a diagnosis, at least for me, is just the beginning. I would offer this advice to someone else recently diagnosed: it's very important to be open with your dr/and or therapist, and to take their advice as much as possible. I've tried to avoid therapy for a long time, and that led to my relapse. Lesson learned.