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In relation to self worth and such, part that seems ironic to me is that soon we, the dx'd, carry a conciousness vastly broadened by our various degrees of "otherness." We end up knowing two streams and managing the confluence of them to balance whatever our best version of life that we can. Frankly, this sensibility now seems indispensible and I doubt I would have it to this degree with out the disorder so to speak. Maybe i'm taking the long way around the barn to say that my picture of the universe is larger than one that never had to consider their psychiatric nature.

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Hi sqrlb8,

In elegant language, you have summed up exactly the point I was trying to make.

Managing 'otherness' is plainly harder than laying in bed and eating peaches with not a care in the world.

We have to include the illness in our self image, and accept that we now see the world in a way that requires courage - I wonder who it was who first said "Ignorance is bliss".

Cheers, Myzen