Sometimes to get better, things have to get worse first. Just because something makes you focus on how bad you feel doesn’t mean it can’t be productive in the longer run. Though I suppose if you’re depression is so severe that that extra focus might tip you over the precipice, I can see why you might not want to risk it.
I am curious to know what “Actually curing the depression” required for you?
Sometimes to get better, things have to get worse first.
Sure—the operative word was “just”. The forms of it I could sustain didn’t help over five years or so.
I am curious to know what “Actually curing the depression” required for you?
Meds.
Specifically, things got so horrible that I was forced to drop my plans of getting medical insurance in order beforehand, and to go to a doctor, who promptly handed me off to a psychiatrist, who put me in the loony bin for a few days and on meds. The meds turned out to make it worse, so I was put on a different med, which worked so quickly and miraculously that the psychiatrist feared I was going hypomanic.
Sometimes to get better, things have to get worse first. Just because something makes you focus on how bad you feel doesn’t mean it can’t be productive in the longer run. Though I suppose if you’re depression is so severe that that extra focus might tip you over the precipice, I can see why you might not want to risk it.
I am curious to know what “Actually curing the depression” required for you?
Sure—the operative word was “just”. The forms of it I could sustain didn’t help over five years or so.
Meds.
Specifically, things got so horrible that I was forced to drop my plans of getting medical insurance in order beforehand, and to go to a doctor, who promptly handed me off to a psychiatrist, who put me in the loony bin for a few days and on meds. The meds turned out to make it worse, so I was put on a different med, which worked so quickly and miraculously that the psychiatrist feared I was going hypomanic.