I had a great childhood. But as soon as I say something like “if I smell alcohol on a man’s breath, I immediately think of my dad” Terry just responds with some overthinky, pschobabble.
Hey, I related to this comment pretty hard. Sometimes you hit a wall with therapy, and you need some help breaking out of your self-destructive patterns. I had a positive experience a few years back with a two-week Intensive Outpatient Program. I wouldn’t say it fundamentally changed the nature of the struggle, but it definitely helped me get out of a hole, and helped make the subsequent holes I got myself into feel shallower and more easily escapable.
Yeah it can absolutely suck for a lot of people. Thankfully I landed on one of the easiest rolls for ND. ADHD, mild-moderate depression, GAD, panic disorder in remission.
My fear of nothingness is far stronger than anything even severe depression could touch. Let alone being logical already, fairly well balanced, and zero qualms with getting help or keeping on stuff like pills.
Playing up that 80’s mentality around meds and help though is something I still see all the time and it always just makes me sad and frustrated for them. So much of how they could be doing better is rooted in poor pride and anti-intellectualism.
As a teenager, I was vehemently against any psychoactive meds. As I recall, I was very afraid of being zombified or brainwashed. Like an existential fear that I would become a different person. Not sure what to attribute it to at this point.
Hey, I related to this comment pretty hard. Sometimes you hit a wall with therapy, and you need some help breaking out of your self-destructive patterns. I had a positive experience a few years back with a two-week Intensive Outpatient Program. I wouldn’t say it fundamentally changed the nature of the struggle, but it definitely helped me get out of a hole, and helped make the subsequent holes I got myself into feel shallower and more easily escapable.
Yeah it can absolutely suck for a lot of people. Thankfully I landed on one of the easiest rolls for ND. ADHD, mild-moderate depression, GAD, panic disorder in remission.
My fear of nothingness is far stronger than anything even severe depression could touch. Let alone being logical already, fairly well balanced, and zero qualms with getting help or keeping on stuff like pills.
Playing up that 80’s mentality around meds and help though is something I still see all the time and it always just makes me sad and frustrated for them. So much of how they could be doing better is rooted in poor pride and anti-intellectualism.
As a teenager, I was vehemently against any psychoactive meds. As I recall, I was very afraid of being zombified or brainwashed. Like an existential fear that I would become a different person. Not sure what to attribute it to at this point.