Posted by stargazer2 on November 20, 2008, at 20:16:28
In reply to Re: Anyone Ever Feel More Confused At This Forum?, posted by Phillipa on November 19, 2008, at 18:56:07
That's why I come to site so infrequently today plus I have cured myself after 20 years of treatment. It's a great site for support fro others, but trying to digest the information presented by so many, with such varying backgrounds and "personalities", made it almost impossible to know what advice to listen to.
I like to come here and read postings and write a few responses, but overall I find too much information, too difficult to process and now that I am in remission and working, obviously I do not have much free time.
I wish you all success in finding solutions for your problems. I have struggled more than I care to admit over 30 years with depression and a variety of other less prominent conditions. I still struggle and have to work at staying together. Life is never easy whether you have a medical conditon or not, but a psychiatric diagnosis can be one of the most difficult and least understood, even by so-called experts, as so many of you know.
Just keep fighting for answers and trusting your own ability to work through things that don't work, forging ahead to try new options that might have potential. And don't ever think your doctor has ALL the answers, since I have found that I actually had more of the answers than the docs did. I would have never expected that.
I have come full circle, but the future for everyone, even those without an illness, is not certain.
I have learned that struggles are just part of the human condition and if you give up and accept a marginal existence, there is usually no one who will fight for you (Unless someone understands you and can do this for you). I had to do the fight myself since friends and family never understood what I had.
The worst part about depression is that it robs you of the ability to fight, so it is much harder to find answers and keep trying to get up and do it again day after day.
But I found the strength, somehow, to do this and thank God, I am happy and working right now. It may not be forever, but then again no one's life is ever guaranteed, beyond the moment in which you exist.
Philosophical, but true.
Good night all and stay well or get better, don't settle for less.
Stargazer (the stars are beautiful tonight here in New England, frosty and getting colder every day)
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