Going from zero to hero is not what I said; they were on someone else's post, which you are choosing to go along with. Please reread my post more deeply and identify what I am truly saying in regards to hope as the basis for change.

Good enough parents give hope to their child so that they are able to function at the next level of development, otherwise we'd all still be in diapers still expecting someone 'out there' to wipe our butt. To organize own chaos and bring it to order is our journey work. Hope in a baseline (within our program/therapy/otherwise) is a value we each can be encouraged in and choose and go after until new brain wiring is produced--that's neuroplasty--and happens with good results when people work through the challenges. No one said life would be easy. That's my point.

I have had major depressive disorder, which is now in remission. As anyone knows, when the dark cloud hits, there is NO desire to leave the house and exercise. And yet, neuroscience proves that exercise changes the chemistry of depression, so when I leave the house and do my customized exercise plan, I am working with the management of my disorder. This is the counsel my psychiatrist gave me, which my mother didn't give because she was clinically depressed in a time that didn't heed this counsel.

Thank you for letting me know how my previous words came across...without the warm fuzzies(?). I will consider your counsel in meeting a possible unmet need within myself regarding the ways in presenting hope to a group in various stages and definitions of compassion. On a personal basis, true compassion for me is in not leaving someone stuck in a ditch when those of us watching have 'tools' of hope to offer. Aren't we recovery partners to one another? Or career whiners? It is far more socially acceptable to whine with one another of which happens everywhere...but here, we have hope of change for the better and that is what I am offering.