Posted by Raisinb on November 12, 2011, at 9:59:12
In reply to Re: I'm losing all hope...so tired of fighting in vain » Deneb, posted by ihatedrugs on November 12, 2011, at 0:05:01
I am in a similar place as you right now. After countless drugs and different therapies, it is almost impossible to summon that tiny bit of faith it takes to try yet another thing.
What your husband is saying sounds a lot like ACT: acceptance and commitment therapy. I am just learning about it now, reading a book. One of the big ideas is that we have clean pain and dirty pain. Clean pain is our original depression. Dirty pain is all the pain that comes from feeling upset about the depression, trying to distract ourselves, trying to suppress it, feeling desperate, etc.
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