Posted by SLS on January 16, 2015, at 2:33:55
In reply to Re: the recovery model » SLS, posted by baseball55 on January 15, 2015, at 20:53:43
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 depressionI sooooo want to see you succeed. It seems to me that your plans for life now predominate over your plans for death. I know that you will continue doing the work. I work on myself every day with the lessons I learned from various psychotherapies. It is an ongoing synthesis. This has been possible only because my biological therapies have produced a partial improvement of what is otherwise a horrendous bipolar depressive illness. Prior to this, psychologists said that the efficacy of psychotherapy would be limited because, in their words, I "couldn't think my way out of a paper bag." During these times, I told my therapists that they had only one job to perform - to keep me alive.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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