Posted by noa on October 19, 2000, at 19:28:17
In reply to SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT US ALL, posted by GLYN on October 19, 2000, at 18:52:29
Interesting.
The point about making a hobby of our illness made me think this:
Our illnesses have captured much of our attention against our wills, in fact DEMANDED so much of our attention, robbing our ability to attend to the rest of our lives, so this kind of attention that we now pay to it makes sense. By making this a "hobby", to a point, I think, is a healthy way to wrest control back from the illness and have the attention be under our control and not its.
Also, perhaps it is making a hobby of the healing process, rather than the illness. And if it doesn't overwhelm other aspects of our lives, it seems logical and necessary to do this. I have learned that distancing myself too much from my depression, when in remission, has led to feeling ambushed when a new episode occurs. By keeping it in sight at all times, and acknowledging that it is part of my life, I feel more in control, and perhaps if another episode occurs (I am reluctant to say "when" another episode occurs, but perhaps that is more realistic), it hopefully won't pack as big a punch or knock me off balance as much as previous ones did, which caught me unprepared.
Does this make sense?
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