Do you want to try?

I cannot say that what works for me, will work for you, but I think that perhaps we all can live a bit better with our plagues if we find a way to do that.

Of course medication helps to some degree, so do therapy, but therapy can be very different, from "insight therapy" to "cognitive behavioral therapy" and all the methods in between.

I have gone to insight therapy in my younger years. I am not going to criticize it, because it helped in some way. But it was first when I started to do relaxation exercises daily and making a tool box of "what to do" in situations that triggered my emotions, that I really got a grip on how to live with it all.

I urge all of you, if you haven't done it before, start noticing what helps the wonderful person that is you. Write down these wonderful help tips for you only. Read through it at a time that fits your plan every day. In CBT it will be so that the more you read about your skills (instead of thinking about how stupid or sick you are), the more your own helping techniques will present themselves to you when you need them. You don't have to deny that you have an illness, only decide that you will live with it as best as possible (and make place in you daily plans to get enough sleep and more).

I think it can be wise to start with this video. I found something similar years ago and mixed that into my own advice from me to me. I think the clue is not to say that from to morrow I will do it better, but just ask oneself where one wants to direct ones thoughts all day long, and live in the here and now, days in and out (and be quick to forgive oneself when one has stumbled or hit a bump, and then move on):