Posted by SLS on November 25, 2010, at 6:50:09
In reply to Still sad, posted by Deneb on November 25, 2010, at 0:29:23
> I'm still sad. I'm thinking really hopeless thoughts about my career and life. What can I do to make this feeling go away?
I can tell you what won't work. You won't be able to sit back and do nothing in the hopes that ill feelings will go away by themselves.
You have real issues to deal with. Life happens one moment at a time. To deny that you will need to live in the moment and work hard in order to attend to your issues is to insure that negative thoughts and feelings will continue. Even if an episode of major depressive disorder (MDD) has emerged and is best treated biologically, your issues will likely remain. To begin to deal with issues is to accept that they are there and that they are real. If you are currently depressed (MDD), progress in dealing with your feelings of inadequacy will be very difficult, if not impossible. You need to attack the MDD first (if you indeed have it) before you can make sense out of the world around you and the psyche within you. Either way, you will need to do psychological work to fully recover from your feelings of sadness.
You might make an exercise out of journaling your thoughts as they occur and how these thoughts make your feel. You can then present this journal to your doctor on your next visit. It will help him decide how best to treat you.
You are *extremely* intelligent. This is a true gift. If you commit yourself to using this gift constructively and with a positive attitude, you will be able to build a mentally healthy and productive life for yourself where most of your feelings will be of joy rather than sadness. I believe that you are capable of feeling joy. You already do. Continue to marvel at the miracle of life. It is your nature to find joy in it.
Just do it.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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