RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support
January 16, 2012 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2012 at 11:16 am by Faith No More.)
How have things been going? I don't know if you remember chatting with me before but we discussed these health issues for a while.
At least give coming back a shot, and if you don't like it, you don't have to come back. Many people here, including myself, have struggled with mental illness, so we can help in any way you want us to, even if it just means listening.
Since others have shared, I feel I will share some of my backgroud. My depression started about when I was 13, but it was mild until it was triggered by some things in my life at the age of 15. Along with it came severe social anxiety. I was first hospitalized at 16 and subsequently 7 more times until I was 27. I decided I needed to be proactive in my recovery process, so I spent the next few years quitting drugs. I then worked on keeping a good sleep cycle and trying to deveolp some sort of routine during the day. These things plus a new antidepressant that worked very well for me have given me the ability to almost entirely manage my deprssion starting 2 years ago.
At least give coming back a shot, and if you don't like it, you don't have to come back. Many people here, including myself, have struggled with mental illness, so we can help in any way you want us to, even if it just means listening.
Since others have shared, I feel I will share some of my backgroud. My depression started about when I was 13, but it was mild until it was triggered by some things in my life at the age of 15. Along with it came severe social anxiety. I was first hospitalized at 16 and subsequently 7 more times until I was 27. I decided I needed to be proactive in my recovery process, so I spent the next few years quitting drugs. I then worked on keeping a good sleep cycle and trying to deveolp some sort of routine during the day. These things plus a new antidepressant that worked very well for me have given me the ability to almost entirely manage my deprssion starting 2 years ago.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
