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Jan 11, 2017, 12:30 PM
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Does anyone else have experience with the following? I feel like I am at a point in my life where I do not know, legitimately do NOT know how to be happy. How do I maintain "happiness" let alone find it? What is it? How do I know when I have it? Those are all questions I have been asking myself lately as I have been feeling acutely depressed. Furthermore... Is it possible to not be able to be happy (as in it is just not part of one's emotional toolkit)? I am at a point in my life where I see myself turning towards the "Myth of Arrival" where, if I were to just achieve X or get somewhere Y I might then be happy. How do I get past this thinking, this "Myth of Arrival" and learn to live with myself and the way I feel? Do I just have to "accept it"... (sigh)
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Jan 11, 2017, 05:34 PM
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I've been feeling the way you described for many years.
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Dx: BP2 and MDD Current meds: 100mg Wellbutrin; 200mg Lamictal; 400mg Seroquel at night; Xanax 1mg/PRN; 100mg/PRN Trazodone at night for insomnia Diagnosed in May 2016 |
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Jan 11, 2017, 05:54 PM
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I really wish I had an answer for you. Sadly I don't. For me, one thing was if I still had my car. But, alas, I don't.
So if anyone else finds out, let us all in on the answer.
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Let me run with you tonight I'll take you on a moonlight ride There's someone I used to see But she don't give a damn for me But let me get to the point, let's roll another joint And turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud You don't know how it feels You don't know how it feels to be me ~ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
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Jan 17, 2017, 04:43 PM
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The times I feel best is when I'm doing something absorbing so I forget myself, or if I'm doing something with or for someone else.
I don't know if that's happy, but I feel more worthwhile.
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