Felodese
Experienced
- Mar 31, 2024
- 268
I'm very ambivalent - I want to give up but can't quite give up hope.
In my more hopeful moments I sometimes read or listen to podcasts about how people have revcovered or even been cured of their depression.
But when they tell their story it's almost always a case of "I'm complete cured now - I just have to do these 10 things each day, monitor my thoughts 24/7 and confront any negative thing that pops up, or else my depression will return with a vengence. And I know I'll always be in pain and that sooner or later I will have a new depressive episode, no matter what. But I'm totaly recovered."
These "inspirational stories" just make me more pessimistic. Like there's no point.
Is that what recovery is? Feeling a bit better but constantly fighting to stay that way, and there always being the threat of getting worse again?
Are you really recovered if that's what your life is like?
In my more hopeful moments I sometimes read or listen to podcasts about how people have revcovered or even been cured of their depression.
But when they tell their story it's almost always a case of "I'm complete cured now - I just have to do these 10 things each day, monitor my thoughts 24/7 and confront any negative thing that pops up, or else my depression will return with a vengence. And I know I'll always be in pain and that sooner or later I will have a new depressive episode, no matter what. But I'm totaly recovered."
These "inspirational stories" just make me more pessimistic. Like there's no point.
Is that what recovery is? Feeling a bit better but constantly fighting to stay that way, and there always being the threat of getting worse again?
Are you really recovered if that's what your life is like?