Posted by Tomatheus on January 3, 2014, at 2:18:57
In reply to Re: World not better off because I'm here, posted by alexandra_k on January 3, 2014, at 1:19:39
Thanks, Alexandra_k. I appreciate the fact that you sent me that link and that you wrote what you did. My concentration is somewhere between decent and not so good right now, but I did read the page that you linked to with great interest. I think that there can be some empowerment in accepting a difference, whether that difference is autism, an affective psychosis like mine, or something else, although I think for me I think it's a matter of accepting who I am now, as opposed to who I used to be. I guess in a sense I'm sort of mourning over my former self, and although I don't think I'd stop my current efforts to change my current self into something that's more reminiscent of my old self, I should probably be more accepting than I have been of the person that I am now. I wouldn't regard the life of someone with a condition that's clearly more severe than what I have as being without value, and I should probably hold my own life and value in the same regard.
Tomatheus
Has an affective psychosis with strong symptoms of fatigue, hypersomnia, and difficulty concentrating
Taking Abilify & supplements
poster:Tomatheus
thread:1056599
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20131209/msgs/1057578.html