Posted by mair on February 28, 2004, at 13:53:43
In reply to suicide plan step 2, posted by bell_75 on February 27, 2004, at 19:44:01
I'm with shar - when you think of the choice of suicide as being the most important decision anyone could ever make - you see that it's not one that should be made impulsively. I get into ruts where it seems as if I can't think of anything else; but it still feels to me like it's more of an impulse than a well-reasoned plan.
I'm well familiar with the feeling that you'll never ever be any better; I've always thought that one of the worst things about depression is that depressive feelings seem so permanent. Rather gradually I came to realize that depressive feelings no longer seem as permanent. I can (and do) get plenty depressed, but I've managed to shed myself of the sense of never ending despair; maybe it's just that I've fallen in and out of these states of depression so frequently, that I just now know the worst feelings do go away.
Please keep trying to find the right meds compbination and stick with therapy. There are no guarantees, of course, but I'm pretty confident that things will eventually look better.
Mair
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