Posted by SLS on July 25, 2005, at 2:36:26
In reply to Won't be posting as much, posted by 4WD on July 24, 2005, at 23:09:47
Hi Marsha.
I think you gotta do what you gotta do.
Perhaps you have become consumed with the minutia of depressive illness and dwell constantly on receptors, neurotransmitters, and all of the other things that are not necessary to know to get well.
It might indeed be a good idea to fall-back and reorganize. Find a more balanced perspective and approach towards achieving your goal - mental health - without becoming so focused on mental illness.
If you do come back to PB, you might want to post from time to time questions about how specific drugs have affected people or ask generally clinical questions rather than try to figure out the biology of affective disorders, something that the best minds in the world have not yet been able to do.
Words are important because they are often the only way in which we can communicate ideas. You say that you want to stop thinking of yourself as a depressed person. What is it that you are trying to think of yourself as?
Whatever words you choose, you might discover or rediscover that you indeed do suffer from an affective disorder - depression. Many people think of themselves and define themselves as being their depression. In this case, it becomes extremely important to think of oneself as being far more than just the depression. We are all more than our illnesses. We are human beings.
- Scott
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