Posted by yxibow on October 16, 2008, at 2:21:25
In reply to In these troubled times--do you feel the need to.., posted by Bobby on October 15, 2008, at 23:29:03
> take more meds than usual? I was just wondering how folks are coping. I only take Restoril for sleep and it seems to work fine. Other than that, I don't take anything-anymore. It would seem that people would want to escape more in general. Any thoughts?
Life moves forward -- yes, 25% of Americans at least were "walking wounded" for months in a PTSD sense after 9/11. But whatever people want to make of the tragic event, the UK has been dealing with troubles in Northern Ireland for decades and has learned well about these things. Israel has been dealing for 60 years. And though things seemed "safe" in the US actually knowledge of terrorism dated back at least to the beginning of the Clinton administration.
The point is there is no guarantees in life, a temporary existence, which with what we make the best we can, and make sure not to be hard on ourselves for the things that we can't control.Its a hard thing to come to terms with, personally I guess being agnostic and for other reasons I really have not come to terms with this more than on an intellectual level, I know -- emotionally its easier to stay in the past, but if you stay in the past you'll never experience the present to find out the future.
Living in the Here and Now is the best way for success. And yes, I am fighting a tough disorder which makes me depressed a lot and I end up flat on the couch or in my room -- essentially because I don't want to experience life -- I don't want to experience my disorder.
It builds on itself though, to a point where you can really entrap yourself and require a lot of help pushing yourself back out into public no matter how much it hurts.
It might surprise you to see the rest of the world going on. What other rational choices does the world have ?
There are a lot of naturally morbid things we can think about that we don't need to debate in this forum, but in a sense mourning what we think was our previous selves and coming to terms and recreating a new, happier identity is something how people get along.It just requires more help when you're mentally ill, its not fair, and nobody said it was easy, but its a key to being more successful at the battle a lot of us face.
Perhaps I'm transferring a bit of what I face, but I just offer this as a concept.
-- Jay
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