Posted by cgd092 on January 7, 2007, at 0:49:42
In reply to Re: Can you relate to this type of anxiety? » cgd092, posted by UgottaHaveHope on January 6, 2007, at 23:48:59
You wrote, "Are you able to calm yourself down at all by changing your thoughts? Do you or have you seen a CBT therapist? What gives you hope you will one day get better?"
I finally (after about, oh, five tries) found a great psychologist. He clicked for me. I talk myself out of going to see him but make myself, because every time I do, I get some nuggets of wisdom. And I take notes when I'm there and type them when I get home. Then I keep them in a binder. This is me trying to get my money's worth; if I forget what he says, what good is that? So if anxious/depressed, I look over my notes. Helps immensely. Have learned lots of little coping skills from him. The hope I have is not of getting better: my psychologist says 'don't hate your illness; manage it. So I manage it. I learn skills on how not to make it worse, or "spiral." I stay on my meds, because altho they aren't perfect, whenever I've gone off them I can see how they helped. I have hope that if having a depressive episode, it will remit at some time, because it always does. Remember that one line from "The Simpsons," where Lisa gets home from Church on Sunday, bursts in the front door and says, "Yay! The longest possible time before more Church!" I love that. That's what I say to myself when I'm at the worst point in a depressive episode: it can only get better, and if I look at it that way, then it's always darkest before dawn; it's always the longest possible time before more depression!--Katy
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