Posted by Kingfish on April 30, 2001, at 8:40:50
In reply to the worst of feeling better, posted by sar on April 21, 2001, at 22:38:30
Boy, Sar, does this ever make sense to me.
I just posted a thread called
"discovering who you are after years of suffering"
and it had similar issues. THere are so many fearful
things associated with "getting better."
My life is in far more shambles now than it was when
I
was feeling and acting "ill", strictly speaking,
because I do have the ability and the energy to act
on
my intuition and to reason clearly for the first time
in ten, twelve years.
When you finally start to feel better, I think there's
an expectation of an increased responsibilty and I
think one does feel like they can do more - if not,
the meds probably aren't working right.
But we must remember that we have an illness (I'm
BP
II, with the emphasis on Depression). And that will
never go away, and no meds, no matter how well they
work, will completely handle that. So we have to treat
it as an on-going thing, and give ourselves room.
It's
not going to be as easy for us to handle some things
in life as it is others. Yet we will enjoy riches
others' will never see.
You should be feeling more confident about things
as
you start feeling more "normal" - I hate that word.
:)
If not, again, I think your meds might not be quite
right.- K.
poster:Kingfish
thread:5755
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