WateryBoil, you mention a very very good point: keeping up activities. This is very important to me too! I always went to work (when I was an employee) even though I had dellusions, even though it was extremely (!) hard to get up in the morning and even though my concentration was bad. I could set myself on "autopilot", Jared Tandler would call it "unconsious competence" and could still write good texts (I was a copywriter back then). I even could take some creativity from the depression, from my dark thoughts (was working for the pharmaceutical industry, so writing about bad diseases was peanuts
). Because I had hypochondric dellusions....well, it perfectly matched to my work and somehow my work was "therapy", I could let out all my fears, all my anxiety. So I never missed a single day at work (I´m self-employer now).
Sports helped me as well, even though it was very hard to enjoy it, I only could enjoy sports as soon as the "famous runners high" set in. The endorphines which are secreted during and after sports help a lot to ease the pain and suffering.
When it got really really bad recalling my best childhood-memories helped a lot in order to "
stay alive" (you know what I mean). My childhood-memories (and some other nice ones like from vacations) helped me to see that life isn´t so bad and were preventing that I wanted to **** myself. Besides, most people have next of kin, you cannot do this to your loved ones. The thought of my loved ones gave me power to fight for my life!!
I stopped asking the question "
Why me?". It runs in our family and that´s the way it is. And every family member who´s got it did/does well in life.
By the way: I have recently read something very interesting. The same genes which makes you depressive can give you kind of "great brain power" like creativity or great memory. It depends on situation and lifestyle. So in an unlucky situation you get sick but in a completely different one you get very successfull! Interesting!
One more important point: Pharma or alternative medicine? There´s no black or white! I use
both! There are everywhere good things and bad things. Important is that it´s working for
you!
Last edited by Primrose6789; 10-03-2017 at 03:58 AM.