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I'm super-prone to depression, and I can feel a hard one coming on lately. Ugh.
- Have you ever found anything that helps avert it once you feel it coming?Gnash
- Generally, no. I mostly end up letting it ride and, eventually, something in life happens that demands my attention helps me out of it.Continuity
- I'm not keen on pharmaceutical solutions, either. Last time I took mood stabilisers, it made me feel way too weird. Didn't like it at all.Continuity
- Interesting that you use the term ‘letting’. Do you think there’s a part of you that welcomes it?Gnash
- Sometime there is comfort in traumaGnash
- Well, you're probably right, though I didn't consciously use the word to mean anything like that.Continuity
- Sorry to hear. Do you get anxiety once you realize that things are going really well? And you're expecting everything to come crashing down?bezoar
- I waver between anxiety and complacency during good times. It's pretty shitty.Continuity
- Jogg it of maybe?********
- "welcomes it"? its kinda sad to people do that.pango
- *"welcomes it"? its kinda sad people do that.pango
- try reading this https://www.amazon.c…srhadden
- It’s not sad, pango, it just ‘is”. For many that live with trauma, it ends up feeling like your natural state. You only feel ‘yourself’ when in that state.Gnash
- So you welcome that feeling because it feels ‘normal’Gnash
- That’s why many people how grow up in alcoholic households end up marrying alcoholics. It feels like homeGnash
- ya thats sad.pango
- Close friend told me to “smoke a joint” when I opened up about my chronic depression in my mid 20sfuturefood
- Haven’t been anxious or depressed in my life since.futurefood