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Meantime, do feel free to share more of your own experience and what you have found most helpful in your own recovery. Some people find drugs helpful, some don't. Some have found tremendous healing in their relationships with professionals, some haven't.

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My "recovery" is a continuing thing, spanning decades now. I have found no psychotropic medications useful, and I've taken a lot of them. My relations with "professionals" ranges from massively destructive (to me) to, finally, very helpful in the last few months. What has been most helpful is a lot of reading, finding stories of the many people who have, mostly on their own, fought their ways out of despair -- and coming gradually to a sense of my own worth and accurate perception of what the origins of my experience are. For a long time, especially after my first attempts to find a sense of self-worth were beaten back, I tried the recommendations of others. They didn't work. So however frightening it is (and it is) I embarked on a path of my own, attempting to explore the fear. So far I am only partially successful at doing that. But I see now some reinforcements in the pages of your and other Web sites.