Posted by Meri-Tuuli on March 28, 2007, at 16:20:48
In reply to Coping with Guilt!, posted by Tom Twilight on March 28, 2007, at 15:39:26
Tom! I'm sending you some warm fuzzy thoughts and lots of support.
You're not filing the board up with crap! It was a good post.
I don't think you've messed up your life at all. You're doing the best you can do!!
I agree with the statement about GPs. And funnily enough, my GP immediately prescribed prozac when I had my first depressive episode. A course of CBT would have been far more appropriate. Mental health care is so bad in the UK NHS. I went crazier on prozac - I too was in my final year at uni, although luckily they let me have a semester off. Yeah and I believe that suidicality thing about it - I was never suicidal before, but with the prozac I found myself on the edges of cliffs and things.....it was scary.
Anyway, please don't be so critical of yourself - I think you're a wonderful person, and you haven't messed things up at all. You're still young - put it into perspective - we're going to be living until we're 70+ which is another 50 years plus for you and me. Thats an awful long time to sort yourself out and things like that. I think everyone to some degree thinks they've messed up their life - and those prefect people, well they might have something tragic happen to them too, like a divorce, death, cancer or something like that or they might burn out at 40. Who knows.
You haven't messed anything up at all Tom. You were coping and trying to survive a very difficult and nasty disease (i.e. mental illness).
Kind regards
Meri
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