Posted by ksvt on March 3, 2001, at 13:48:45
In reply to Re: I feel like my life is over, posted by adams on March 3, 2001, at 13:23:25
> Adams - you shouldn't try to get rid of us quite that easily. If owning a gun is so important for home security, why haven't you bought one before? Would you really feel safe using it for any purpose? When I first got depressed 5 or 6 years ago and was really in pretty bad shape, I refused to stop working even though that meant that some days I went into my office, closed the door, and spent most of the day staring out the window or moving the same few pieces of paper from one side of my desk to the other. I'm not at all sure that this was the right decision, and I've thought often if I might not have been better off claiming disability so I could stop working for awhile. Trying to continue to work brought with it so much anxiety and fear. But I was very conscious that I kept doing this, no matter how worthless, because I was afraid of staying home by myself all day. I was so lethargic that I thought I'd just sit around and ruminate and make myself more depressed. I think this is what Shelli's talking about. It's not a great time for you to be off by yourself. If working is just too hard, and you don't think partial or full hospitalization is an alternative, than I think you need to find some other activity that has you somewhat engaged and around other people. I know this it tough - when I'm more acutely depressed, my preference is to isolate myself as much as possible - but I think it's important to the recovery process. Please keep posting to let us know how you're doing. K
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