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Originally Posted by JohnCrow
The problem with self help books is that someone else wrote them; they are solving their issues and, if I may wax eloquent, seeking out self help during depression is a bit like reading up on swimming lessons after you have fallen overboard
I know I hated doing it - I thought I was strong enough to tough through another down cycle and it seemed an admission of defeat
But ask yourself, if you broke your leg would you set it yourself? How about a stab wound? Going to just take a tylenol, be fine in the morning. Don't want to be a bother
One of the perennial problems with depression is that lack of self worth and self-loathing that makes us avoid seeking help because, well, why bother?
Also, if I may be so bold as to quote Big Bang Theory, taking handfuls of vitamins is less a solution and more a recipe for very expensive urine. Most vitamins sold over the counter are water soluble as opposed to fat soluble) and don't get absorbed other than in minute amounts
Need more vitamins? Eat more fruit, vegetables, etc.
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I understand what you mean. I have no other choice right now. So this is my means to heal. This forum is my only means to talk to someone and other peers. I do not know where i would be without support from here and my one friend.
I have seen others. I have been medicated. I believe this site is more about seeing someone and being medicated. There is nothing wrong with it. They are professionals. But sometimes being medicated you really don't get to deal with your problem right or maybe i just never had the right person. I am older so I had many experience. I don't know if i am lucky but i never went to hospital. Maybe i should have. I don't know.
Right now, i think i may have learning disability. I mean other people have told me i am smart but i don't feel it. I know there are things i don't get. So learning (ironic) about learning disability is new to me. Have always felt it though. I have thought that people have different learning style and it was about me accepting that. This is more about cognitive learning. If anyone knows something about it, please help me.
I also don't have the money. And my the state i am living in doesn't have medicaid for the poor. If i really want to i can try to see someone that is going to take a lot of effort on my side to go see them. The transportation will be long and i really don't want to go through it as it really upset me greatly. But i must say that there is transportation and need to be grateful for that.
I also don't want to be medicated because when i lived in a different state and i had medication then medicaid took it away from me without telling me. I was cut off quickly and i had no medication and had to deal with withdrawal. It was a real bad situation. I don't want to go through that again. And from that i learned i have to really figure out how to get out of this without it because i can't rely on it being there.
If someone is in real bad situation, then please do use them. I am not in that bad of a state.
I do not know if i am doing the right thing. I am 46 and i have lost a lot. I really mean it and not saying it. But one thing i am grateful for is my friend and this site. Yes, being grateful is one of the self-help exercises i do.