Predictable, steady, expectable, certain, sure, unsurprising, humdrum, obvious, and foreseeable.That is my life.And that has been my life for several months. I guess it is always something. Depression has clouded my life with generous helpings of unhelpful thinking. A year ago, I was fixated on not being able to get started in the morning. It took five months of talking about … [Read more...] about What Depression Doesn’t Want You To Know About Unhelpful Thinking Styles
residual depression
Want to get me feeling like I don’t deserve something?
Then just pay me a compliment.My mind immediately goes to everything I have ever done that didn’t measure up. I cannot hear the “good job” because my head is filled with “You don’t deserve this,” or “it’s only a matter of time before people figure out I am a fraud or imposter.”With all that in my head, I cannot hear “good job.”Now I have been working on this. I understand that … [Read more...] about Want to get me feeling like I don’t deserve something?
28 weeks into recovery, now I have residual depression?
I knew living with depression was not going to be a cakewalk.There are challenges and setbacks, successes and snags in my recovery. Now I find out that there are response and remission. I know I was thinking of my recovery as remission. How naive is that?Speaking with my Peer Advocate today, I heard the term residual depression for the first time.Until today, I did not know … [Read more...] about 28 weeks into recovery, now I have residual depression?
