Posted by fallsfall on January 23, 2006, at 8:39:41
In reply to just feeling so ground down and hurting, posted by Racer on January 22, 2006, at 21:21:53
I can so relate to the "let's sleep so we don't have to experience the day" feeling.
I feel lucky that I see my therapist 3/week and I can walk in and say "This is a nap day" (this is what I said on Friday). Somehow we have figured out how to (most days) identify what the trigger is for that day. If I didn't see him so often it would get more entrenched and I wouldn't be able to untangle the triggers. Only by attacking these days one day at a time can I get on with things. "Dropping out" is a very ingrained coping mechanism for me.
It is so hard when this feeling is chronic, but I think that we just chipped away at it until I had one good day, and then a couple of good days. Now we are at maybe 60% good, 40% nap. When I started having more good days than nap days it got a lot easier to deal with the nap days.
So, it IS possible to make progress against this demon.
(((Racer)))
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