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How do you determine what is your illness?

Posted by Raisinb on November 10, 2011, at 9:04:23

And what is your life circumstances? In the past couple of years I have a really hard time sorting this out. For instance, I am very isolated, but am I isolated because I am depressed, or because I changed and got rid of some friendships that were making too many demands on me in the first place? would I be able to enjoy these people if it weren't for my depression? Or is the isolation making me depressed?

Similarly with my job--I hate many aspects of it. But is that because I have been depressed long term? Or is it the cause of a lot of it?

I guess I never know what is biological and what needs to be changed about me and my circumstances. I see both a pdoc and a therapist and I have a hard time sorting out which things are whose, and since part of my depression is pressuring myself to change constantly, well, things get tricky. I went through a long stage of working on myself hard in therapy, refusing all meds, then that didn't work, and now I am constantly on a cocktail that really isn't working, and I am confused.

How does everyone else sort this out?


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