Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,969
Recovery And Depression
There are a lot of days where I feel emotionally flat. I think the medication may have something to do with that. Yet that is actually better than the emotional pit of despair I was feeling before I entered dual-treatment. One of my treatments is CBT and Zen philosophy. I try not to label my current experiences with depression as either good or bad. Its just what I'm experiencing. I try to make the best of it. I do what I can to work with my depression in a way that allows me to be at least comfortable and functioning with my condition.
Some days are harder that others. I don't keep up with my treatments as well as I can. The one thing I have been doing through the thick and the thin is stick with being in treatment/recovery 'no matter what'. I don't hope to become something I'm not. I hope to be who I am and be okay with it. And so far its never as bad as if I allow myself to believe it.