tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652295937726964782.post3170042403299897013..comments2023-08-14T07:09:57.263-04:00Comments on anything&everything: Halfway out of the Mental Illness Closetkaren lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09905540909994791438noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652295937726964782.post-68764783111834240652012-02-21T16:35:04.030-05:002012-02-21T16:35:04.030-05:00jim and darryl--
thank you both for your comments....jim and darryl--<br />thank you both for your comments. you sound about where i am with depression. i still do have suicidal thoughts when things are bad, but far removed from action. i love the idea of getting rid of the 'am.' it still makes sense in a larger phrase--'i'm in the middle of a depression episode,' and is often what i say of my asthma. and its finity is implied. i had a funny realization about this last mild episode. this was my 'normal' 20 years ago. years of therapy never changed that, though it helped.but what did change it, though i fought against it for months, was paxil.and as pissed as i've been about the pharmaceutical companies, i have to admit that they've been helpful in my life...<br /><br />darryl,<br /><br />your post means a lot to me. i've been 'out' about depression in recent years, b/c at my level and in my life i can afford to do that, and precisely b/c some people can't,either for objectively real reasons or b/c of fear, and it might be useful to them. i'm so pleased to hear it has helped you, and doubly pleased that your boss was so supportive. keep me posted!karen lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09905540909994791438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652295937726964782.post-7309411716076037392012-02-21T14:31:00.186-05:002012-02-21T14:31:00.186-05:00Hi Karen,
I just wanted to thank you for posting...Hi Karen, <br /><br />I just wanted to thank you for posting this. I've been dealing with an anxiety disorder and mild agoraphobia for a long time, and sometimes I need to be reminded that it is not a cause for shame. Reading this today helped me take a major step: I finally told my boss about it, and felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders. She was nothing but supportive and I am just so relieved. <br /><br />Your openness helped me to be open. I hope I can do the same for someone else soon.<br /><br /><3<br />DarylleDaryllehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17720249617116787022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652295937726964782.post-32874733813361584342012-02-20T16:13:34.993-05:002012-02-20T16:13:34.993-05:00I, too, have dealt with depression all my life. Lu...I, too, have dealt with depression all my life. Luckily, I've worked out of the suicidal thoughts and actions of my teens and early twenties, but it still hits, and it still has to be dealt with.<br /><br />Something I read years ago (I think it was in a "Whole Earth Catalog," back when those still existed and were still good), which put it in a way I liked then, and now. Basically, it came down to this - people say, "I have a cold," or "I have the flu," or "I have cancer." They don't say, "I am cold," "I am flu" or "I am cancer."<br /><br />So why do we say "I AM depressed?" Why not, "I have a depression?" That would denote it is simply an illness, a condition, a treatable thing. The other, "being depressed," is a state of, well, being. Something we ARE. Instead of something we experience.<br /><br />Hopefully that makes sense.Jim Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02634460171128306060noreply@blogger.com