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I wish I was this clever to say it out loud to my suicide / depression therapist. Meds have definitely helped me get back to my life.
This is so true. Why is there always this impending sense of doom when everything is going alright?
Amen to this. Why can’t our brains just let us enjoy a good thing without going “now just wait a god damned second, SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO GO WRONG”
Good luck with the meds!
I was medicated for three months. THREE. I was doing so well. I told my therapist I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.
It did. I can’t have nice things.
I can not agree with this more.
I always see life as a rollercoaster: when things are going shitty, I hang on for dear life and get my head down and just focus, then when that shit is done I notice how things are going ok, into great … And then brace myself for something to hit the fan.
Rinse, repeat.
I was on meds for a few months which helped me buy some time until I got to a healthier place in life and I could drop them. I got off of them pretty quickly because the side effects were pretty bad for me, personally, which was a bummer because my anxiety definitely lessened while on them.
Truth!
Every. Goddamn. Time.
This is me without the meds tho lmaooo
“Hmm everything is going a little too well, what the fuck is about to happen now?”
me: [realizing my life is kinda good right now]
my brain: “what goes up, must come down”
me: “oh, shit”
Yeah. Meds and therapy never work *that* well.
It’s the knowledge that nothing lasts and the expectation that it will all turn into disaster.
“like I wanna stop all my meds”
If we’re being real.
Aren’t you ever so calm you get anxious about being TOO calm but u can’t get anxious because you’re calm??
No but for real…
It really do be like that
Probably something to do with survival instinct and always being on your toes. Brain is looking out for you.
The fuckening
See the suspicion was warranted for me, things were going great and now I’ve taken like 20 steps back..
This is just like me except for the being on meds and the feeling better part
And then OP woke up.
Always the concern about regression. Life is full of ups and downs. You will inevitably have bad times, but using the new skills obtained in therapy, you can react to the down times with a better outlook.
The way I’d describe being on the right meds for depression is like being on those walking conveyor belts at the airport. Going around doing stuff is suddenly much easier, but you’ve got that weird feeling it’s not quite stable. And that big jolt when you get off.
This is me to the core.
Do be suspicious. Don’t let the suspicion ruin your enjoyment, just be prepared to take on problems again and see your mood swing down. Resilience means being able to ride the ups and downs and not collapse when your improvements get side-tracked despite your best efforts.
wtf is that guy supposed to be? Looks like a countertop composter or rice cooker or something.
What is this magic medicine that will allow me to engage with my hobbies and feel good?
That’s not THERAPY, that’s MEDS.
In therapy you worked your ass off to recode disordered thought patterns. This is like tuning a car’s ECU. IT AINT EASY.
MEDS fix a physical/chemical deficiency in the brain.
Sometimes it’s easy, because you swap out the one broken part and things are good.
SOMETIMES you swap out the broken part, and THEN you get to recode the ECU. But you CAN recode that computer b/c it ain’t as broken as it was.
“Well I can’t cum anymore so…”
This is how I feel about my current and first non-abusive relationship. ‘Can it just be…..good?’
Feds are trying to distract me, trying to get me off my grind, not the first time, not the last, I’ll show them, they can’t fix me.
Bound for the floor, can’t be let down if you’re never up
Well, to be frank, at this point I’m pretty sure it’s proof of either a matrix-style apocalypse or that I am indeed already dead and this is the Bardo, where my soul slowly comes to term with its own end.
true
I’d love for this to be relatable, but nothing ever gets better 😔
I know this is fake because it suggests that the meds work
I know it’s not right, but i fell like if i can’t function without being drugged up i just shouldn’t exist. I dont want to live with dependency on a drug.
In the last few months, a few of my life dreams became true and I hit a few goals I had for years. It feels very weird. Like this can’t be right? Something must go wrong? I don’t deserve it, life will take it away again. It’s really fucked up, how your brain is wired when you’ve been eating shit for three last 20 years
idk why I hate it so much when my therapist over-celebrates something good happening in my life. I’ll be like yeah my week has actually been better than usual
Him: That’s amazing! Fantastic! Wow!
Me: let’s not get ahead of ourselves now
This is so goddamn true
Whenever things are going alright for me I just enjoy it while it lasts.