Posted by solo_voyager on November 7, 2003, at 0:18:28
In reply to Re: Effects of Paxil on social phobe, posted by Clayton on November 5, 2003, at 22:23:46
Hi Clay:
I understand how meds can make one's life easier to deal with. I do not look down on those that find them to be their best course of action. After all, there are umpteen billion people on the face of the earth and they're all different. What works for one doesn't necessarily work for another. My way is the one for me.I've gone through the inability to function more than marginally in the world most people define as normal. I couldn't deal effectively with superiors, the job fiding process or in building a personal social life. So, I removed them from my world.
I am self employed, I am my own boss (I've never had a more demanding one either!). And, I had given up on a social life. That last one is a bit of an over statement because I do have a few (very few by choice)friends, bless their hearts, that try very hard to keep me socially active. They chase me down every week or two and drag me over for dinner usually to meet another female being paraded by to see if she'll catch my attention. His wife is bound and determined to get me married off one way or the other. Woman is persistant. I'll give her that.One has to take responsibility for their life. Everything that happens to you is your doing. You either made it happen or you allowed it to happen to you.
Life is a learning process. If you have an unpleasant experience it's up to you to see that it doesn't happen again. Sometimes there's a lot to learn before you get it down pat.
Take the cards you're dealt and play them. Stop whining about how bad a hand you've been dealt and start bluffing.
Faith works miracles. Faith in yourself works the biggest most profound ones.
When you trip and fall and skin your nose, get back up, dust yourself off and try it again from another angle. Sooner or later you'll get it right.
As long as you can feel pain and take another breath, you're ahead of the game.
Everything is temporary, nothing is forever, not even the universe. It includes the good as well as the bad times.
The only thing of any import is that when it's all over and done, you've done more good than harm.Those are some of the things I keep prodding myself with to keep me going and focused on getting and keeping things together. I relize that many of them make sense only to me. But, you get my drift.
That's it. Gotta run. Take care guy.
S V
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