Posted by SLS on January 29, 2009, at 20:54:04
In reply to Re: Dedicated to those who.... may yet get better » SLS, posted by yxibow on January 29, 2009, at 19:19:58
> Have you ever tried psychodynamic approaches adjucnt to your medication lists?
I have psychotherapy once a week. Over a two-year period, it has helped me enormously. While it does not make much of a dent in the depression, it sure helps accelerate my rate of personal growth. I have been working on the "software" since age 20, even before understanding that I had a biological mood illness. Self-actualization was an early goal of mine. For starters, I wanted to clean-up as much of the damage childhood left me with. I have been as dedicated to improving my psychology as I have my biology. Why not? This is one thing I never was waiting to do, despite the difficulties that depression presents to the healthy processing of issues. I refuse to stand still.Thank God, I don't have a cynical, melancholic, misanthropic, or narcissistic cell in my body. I deem these things to be self-destructive. I know people with these traits are no more at fault for having them than I am for having bipolar disorder. Yet, I don't think I would have had the vigilance and hopeful outlook to continue living with such pain were I to be so negativistic. I would have offed myself long ago. I do not take for granted the gifts I have been given. Among them, the most important are those that have allowed me to live this long and contribute to my own successful treatment.
- Scott
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