Posted by baseball55 on January 15, 2015, at 20:53:43
In reply to Re: the recovery model, posted by SLS on January 15, 2015, at 0:19:27
Thanks Scott. I guess this is how I think of this too and how my p-doc and DBT therapist think about it. I am out of bed, no longer feeling like I've given up and in despair, no longer plotting my suicide. Now, they both say, is the time to do therapy. To look at the scary thoughts that make suicide seem so appealing, to look at the fear and shame that made taking to bed so appealing.
This doesn't mean the depression has no physical basis, because obviously is does. I just means that if the worst of the physical depression is under control with meds, we are able to look at the psycho-social issues that give the depression content and keep people (or kept me) unable to move on.
I have not been severely depressed for three years now. But I still need help from my therapist and p-dco with my tendency to give up and plan suicide. This weak grasp on life is a problem for me independent of biological depression
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