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Old Sep 11, 2013, 06:39 PM
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I have been told that I'm not broken by my T. and then today, I had higher level of stress, and I turned to just doing nothing, and other harmful maladaptive skills. If I"m not broken then, why are those suicidal type thinking still there??
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Old Sep 11, 2013, 09:43 PM
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That's hard to say why your T said that. Maybe he/she was trying to make you feel better; sometimes people have good intentions when they say things like that--but they don't realize how it sounds to us. I'm sure you probably feel broken; I know I do.
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Old Sep 11, 2013, 10:45 PM
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That's hard to say why your T said that. Maybe he/she was trying to make you feel better; sometimes people have good intentions when they say things like that--but they don't realize how it sounds to us. I'm sure you probably feel broken; I know I do.
Everyone is broken today. Our grand parents would just shake their heads and work it off. How can you watch the evening news and think you're crazy or broken? you're fine. You have so much- just by living in a decent country. Please don't say you live in Iraq, China or Russia.
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Old Sep 12, 2013, 04:52 PM
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When the suicidal impulses come, they don't leave, I have to do everything that I can to just survive.... Even though I don't want to live another day, because of all the pain... I know it's the new med, that is causing this, and the tip of the iceburg was simple the jury duty form, which I need to send in... but I'm very scattered, can't think straight, and just have to keep going.

There are people out there that are whole, but they still have good days and bad days.
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Old Sep 12, 2013, 05:01 PM
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Everyone is broken today. Our grand parents would just shake their heads and work it off.
My grandfather committed suicide. People didn't cope loads better back then, it's just that suicide was taboo and when it happened they swept it under the rug as they did with my granddad.
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Old Sep 12, 2013, 05:08 PM
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I have been told that I'm not broken by my T. and then today, I had higher level of stress, and I turned to just doing nothing, and other harmful maladaptive skills. If I"m not broken then, why are those suicidal type thinking still there??
Sometimes therapists have a hard time saying what they really mean and instead wrap things in cute packages.

I think what your therapist is trying to do is saying that you, as a person and a soul, is fine, but that you have got issues that make life really difficult for you.

Separating you as a person, from the illness.
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Old Sep 12, 2013, 06:11 PM
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He also told me that he can see me off my meds... by January... which is a little off. but I just don't know anymore. I normally see him on Thursday but he wasn't there. Tonight I am attempting to practice and study and live in this practice room... trying to just ahh, not cry/scream/or let anyone know something is wrong.
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Old Sep 15, 2013, 12:56 PM
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Everyone is broken today. Our grand parents would just shake their heads and work it off. How can you watch the evening news and think you're crazy or broken? you're fine. You have so much- just by living in a decent country. Please don't say you live in Iraq, China or Russia.
No, our grandparents didn't just shake their heads and work it off. My paternal grandmother drank herself to death, her first husband (my grandfather) beat her and their kids, and finally took off--to this day no one even knows what happened to him (I never met him). My dad, who is in his late 70's now, turned into a psychopath, because of the abuse he endured growing up--so no, things weren't being "worked off" in that day. My maternal grandfather, who I also never met, died when my mom was five from alcohol induced kidney failure.Mental illness is a real disease and it has nothing to do with what country you live in. What you said is like saying, "You can't have cancer unless you live in Russia."
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No, our grandparents didn't just shake their heads and work it off. My paternal grandmother drank herself to death, her first husband (my grandfather) beat her and their kids, and finally took off--to this day no one even knows what happened to him (I never met him). My dad, who is in his late 70's now, turned into a psychopath, because of the abuse he endured growing up--so no, things weren't being "worked off" in that day. My maternal grandfather, who I also never met, died when my mom was five from alcohol induced kidney failure.Mental illness is a real disease and it has nothing to do with what country you live in. What you said is like saying, "You can't have cancer unless you live in Russia."
p.s. you know nothing about me so its not up to you to say that Im fine.
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