I just read someone talking about the desire to live. I think this is so important - meaningful activity. But the activity cannot be "prescribed" it is individual - it has to be something that gives the individual a sense of purpose and volition in the world, hence why I said I really think people should contribute/pick their own methods, but of course trying others' too.

Meaningful activity is a real challenge in many ways. It's something that took me a long time to appreciate - no therapist could give me it, it wasn't in a pill, and the very symptoms it was meant to improve stood menacingly in the way when I tried to do my meaningful activity!! The answer for me, was to find something that I really identified with, and engage in it prolifically when I was feeling OK - in doing this I created a bond with the activities that was quite hard to break. My music, for example, is basically like a timeline of my MI.

As for yesterday, I got through it. There were a couple of hairy moments, but I chose talking and chanting, and did not follow any wee demon rabbits down their endless hole!