Posted by Dinah on January 21, 2007, at 16:30:13
In reply to Frustrated, posted by DannaB on January 21, 2007, at 15:46:07
I was pondering the same questions, except that I really think that from the outside, I'm less functional now than I was at the beginning.
My own thoughts are that progress is rarely linear. And that partly that's part of the human condition.
Are your depressive dips as low as they used to be? Are you more aware of it when you're feeling needy? Are you more aware of ways that you react to feeling needy, and are you more able to react in ways that preserve your important relationships? When you feel empty and bored are you more aware of it than you used to be? Do you have a bigger arsenal of tactics to use when you're feeling that way?
Change is sometimes so incremental that we can't see it unless we look really closely.
It sounds like a good therapy topic though. Periodic appraisals can be an interesting exercise.
You know, when I'm around people who've had a fair amount of therapy, the thing I'm aware of isn't that they're necessarily more happy or necessarily more fulfilled. It's more that they seem to have more awareness and more tools. If that makes any sense?
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