Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » Raisinb

Posted by SLS on August 21, 2012, at 23:02:31

In reply to Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS, posted by Raisinb on August 21, 2012, at 22:33:17

> I've been in states where I was so frantically doing everything I could think of to defeat my depression that I induced way more dysphoria because I was constantly beating myself up for not doing more or different things. Depression is great for inducing binds like that.
Have you always had high expectations of yourself?
I did.
Perfectionism can be depressogenic.
At some point, I realized just how great an achievement it was to survive with this illness. It was a bitter pill to swallow to lose my intellect and operate at a level way beneath those around me.
I push. I push. I push. I constantly push. It grows tiresome, but I keep pushing. I often succeed. Succeed in what? I succeed in trying. Failure to achieve the goals set forth by others is okay with me. It has to be. I must acknowledge that my illness places upon me limitations that most of the people around me do not have. Thus, my expectation of myself is to try to use all of what little God gives me to work with.

- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

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