It would make me crazy to know that I need medication for feeling happy instead of carrying it off on my own.
The truth about whether you can pull off being happy on your own is separate from whether you take the drugs—and, more importantly, you don’t get to choose whether it’s true or not. If you can’t be happy on your own, choosing not to take the drugs doesn’t change that fact, it just changes whether you are able to be happy, or not. And taking the drugs for a while doesn’t mean that you definitely can’t learn to be happy without them, either. You can do both—take the drugs, and also go to therapy to learn to avoid thinking in ways that lead you to be depressed.
Thanks, that sounds logical for me. And I don’t mean that I can’t learn to be happy without them. I already have found out some ways on my own to cope better.But I can’t “heal” it completely.And I have also started a therapy now.It seems like my psychotherapist understands me but I’m not really sure whether he can help me or not.
( I was only once there and my second date will be next week)
The truth about whether you can pull off being happy on your own is separate from whether you take the drugs—and, more importantly, you don’t get to choose whether it’s true or not. If you can’t be happy on your own, choosing not to take the drugs doesn’t change that fact, it just changes whether you are able to be happy, or not. And taking the drugs for a while doesn’t mean that you definitely can’t learn to be happy without them, either. You can do both—take the drugs, and also go to therapy to learn to avoid thinking in ways that lead you to be depressed.
Thanks, that sounds logical for me. And I don’t mean that I can’t learn to be happy without them. I already have found out some ways on my own to cope better.But I can’t “heal” it completely.And I have also started a therapy now.It seems like my psychotherapist understands me but I’m not really sure whether he can help me or not. ( I was only once there and my second date will be next week)