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Posted by 1coyote on April 16, 2004, at 12:23:53
I didn't want to butt into your other thread, so i decided to see if you'd respond to this one. I was in a very similiar position (worse) a year ago - the details aren't important, only that I understand what it's like to go through everyday as if it is a torture. But the main thing I have learned, is that it can always get worse and when it's really bad - you have absolutely no choices. the state tells you where to go, what to do, when you can leave etc. much like being in the hospital - no freedom. Through an excruiciating experience I realized, and relished, the choices I could make. simple ones. Once *you*, *me*, anyone has been continuously victimized, it is all too easy to victimize ourselves without knowing it. Then the choices are taken from us, b/c we cannot be trusted to make good ones on our own, hence the police and hospitals. i only want you to know that you do have choices available to you. You can decide to see a pdoc, be on medication, be in therapy, & after alot of hard work, begin to enjoy life. Nothing stays the same forever, even though we may perceive it to be so. Just please remember, you do have choices and things can get better.
Posted by Penny on April 16, 2004, at 12:33:44
In reply to sandyweb, posted by 1coyote on April 16, 2004, at 12:23:53
Posted by spoc on April 17, 2004, at 15:05:30
In reply to Re: Well said. (nm) » 1coyote, posted by Penny on April 16, 2004, at 12:33:44
I agree. I have had similar thoughts on this but couldn't imagine packaging them effectively and wouldn't risk it. But 1coyote, you tempered realism with sensitivity well. When this matter first surfaced on the med board, someone posted some philosophies (from Buddhism) that boiled down to self-awareness into seeing that there *are* always choices. Sometimes we may even be one step removed from that, to where we don't yet see where choice comes in so we need to start with simply taking responsibility for getting our minds open enough so that there is any chance at all that specific ideas will follow. Fend off our own assumptions and conclusions about "bad luck;" "too late;" and what can be predetermined to be of no use. Because no one else can impart receptiveness on us, that's for sure, and by default things will get worse. The other poster and yourself rang true and have been unique in cutting to the actual root of things and suggesting what are probably the only concrete possibilities for positive change. I hope the potential merits are indeed seen or at least genuinely considered. Good insights. :- )
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