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When viewing life from these perspectives, it is imperative to only expect what is in our control. We can't let ourselves try to live like others around us can. Our minds are very skilled at labeling ourselves. It will always be a challenge to combat the pessimistic perspectives, and there will alwa...

You having lived enough years with positive emotions is a wonderful sign that you can learn how to gain back more of them. One possibility for this painful psychological change of yours may be a subconscious accumulation of negative perspectives, associations and/or attitudes. Without being aware of...

I recommend thinking of your self deprecation and God's approval of you as very different things. It is often too easy for us to think negatively of ourselves when we feel bad which doesn't directly correlate with who we are as people.

An unknowingly wonderful boy lived bound to silence. Great canyons divided him, while the world was a mere stone's throw away. He'd explore open fields joyfully alone. Nothing of himself was conserved, no ounce left for anyone nor anything else. His beautiful nature stayed hidden, but he somewhere d...

Plenty of people have lived tougher lives than mine, but my fragility makes my experience more like a POW survivor or similarly traumatizing. My mother gets 100% credit for providing me the opportunity to stay alive. I can't give into suicide like two of my brothers have, she deserves my survival. H...

I greatly recommend recognizing the hate for things related to you as being fed by depression/emotional pain and not reliable to be thought of as reasonably accurate. Depression is amazing at taking neutral or even positive things and spinning them to be undesirable or flawed. Although we may not be...

Congrats on your productive and constructive direction! Something I heard somewhere that helps some people and maybe it would help guide you in some way: 'Happiness comes from having something to work on, someone to work with and something to work towards'

Many times thinking to myself/reminding myself that I've been here before keeps my head above water. I can say up to each impossible moment that I have a perfect winning streak, and odds have me being okay again.

I know there is no purpose in typing this and will just fade away like my options to treat my symptoms. Yet, here I am typing essentially to myself. I've gone through the gauntlet of medications, alternative methods as well as many ECT treatments. I'm again at this wall where all I can do is sit aga...

This babe knew what people said. No question he reaches that expected ability at his age. Suddenly, he now has to speak in turn. Thoughts would vanish and speaking would rarely be understood well enough. He watched as others develop a bond with the words of expressions that was the glue holding thei...

Life, indeed, is like a box of chocolate. We find out someone had taken one bite of every one and put them back. We stand there pissed off about this and wanting to hate someone for such this selfish act. After a short moment passes, and we decide to eat the left-over chocolate anyway. I mean, serio...

The feeling of needing air to breathe without a health risk is what this feels like. I'm accomplishing all that is recommended and suggested for dealing with my diagnosis, and it is an amazing feat, certainly. My symptoms sometimes causes arguments with valuable people in my life and that is the mos...