Posted by SLS on August 30, 2012, at 3:26:44
In reply to losing streak, posted by b2chica on August 29, 2012, at 15:48:31
Losing streaks come and losing streaks go. You will soon find your way back to a familiar mindset, and continue to work in positive and constructive ways to not only save your own life, but to make it worth living.
Do you want the pain and frustration to end?
1. Suicide might accomplish this, but there is no guarantee that Hell is not waiting for you on the other side.
2. Suicide is guaranteed to put your loved ones through hell.
3. You can continue to explore different treatments. People do get well, even after decades of waiting in agony for a miracle. You need to figure out how to best get through this period.
4. Become involved in psychotherapy and group therapy. These things are to be used as a bridge between now and when you get well. The focus should be looking for tools that help you cope with the depression while you have it. You don't need to have a psychoanalytic psychiatrist peel back the layers of the onion. Besides, severe depression might prevent you from receiving any benefit from such intense introspective approaches.
5. Every now and again, I take inventory of all the blessings I do have despite having had my life stolen from me in such a painful way. I make a gratitude list. I also acknowledge that I was blessed with some sort of temperament that allows me to suffer great pain and the intrusion of negative thoughts, and still manage to walk forward without resentment. Throughout the last 30 years of failed treatments, I remained optimistic. This drove me to dedicate myself to finding a treatment that would breath life into me so that I could become an active participant in my life. Part of the process is to learn to recognize and attend to my own needs because this is what will help bring about the rebuilding of self-esteem.
6. Try to use all of what little God gives you to work with. Use this posture to be positive and constructive. Discover what things are within your capacity to accomplish. The more you work while in this mind set, the less time there is to ruminate over things that you feel that you cannot do. Being realistic is very important so as to prevent the fueling of ruminations about failure. Choose goals that you have a chance at succeeding at. Each success will bring raise your confidence and self esteem. You will accomplish a great deal more by focusing your limited resources on attainable goals, rather than have time slip away on you as you dedicate yourself to projects you are not equipped to succeed at. Choose your battles wisely and cleverly.
7. Have fun. Be silly. Laugh. Nurture your own humor. Since you have not exposed yourself to a drug that produces irreversible clinical side effects, you still have a hell of a lot of brain tissue left to call upon in orderto be silly.
8. Reread this.
- 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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