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Originally Posted by CptJaneway
Overall, I am trying to do my best to be positive, and active, and to have hope for the future. At the moment I am so tired... I have physical issues with fatigue... it's hard to be positive. But I feel that if I reach out here, finding others with dysthymia could help... at least in feeling that I am not alone.
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You are not. This has been my flavour of mental illness for many years
I am just past being in my forties and while surviving past 50 is unexpected, I still have minimal coping skills (having developed mental blocks to cope with the peaks of my depression, which, although they enable me to act more or less normal, means I cannot break out of them. LIke most self constructed mental defences, this is a patch on a badly leaking dyke