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Hello- I have written here before but want to put my 2 cents worth in again. I recently read on here, I think, a gal saying that we should try to live through it as if it's a learning experience. That's like my husband toughing it out when he had a bad leg infection and almost died. It is not a learning experience to be savored but one that needs attention!! It can be dangerous and affects all close people around us. It just makes me so angry when people think that time will heal all things. It doesn't damnit!! Take care anyway you can to get help. Not everyone benefits from the same treatments and time can heal very few, but it can. Your mental health is as important as your physical, they are not really separate. They go hand in hand. What affects one affects the other. I know that I've been depressed, on and off, for many many years and I am 71. It's not a way to live, and that's the goal in life, is it not?
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@merpreb , I was in Special Education for eighteen years. One year of subbing, the rest primarily as a one on one working with many at risk children. One thing I was taught early on, is do not try to teach something new to a child who is suffering. Wait until they are much better to introduce new material. All learning can be said to be worthwhile. But the lessons I "learned" while I was in pain and depressed, are hard lessons bought with the price of joy, peace, and any semblance of happiness. I extend grace to the individuals who believe that telling me to "consider it a lesson learned" is advice well given.
Apparently their pain was not mine. Mine drove me to thoughts of desparation and worse.
I vowed if I ever made it off that sofa of constant misery I would do all I could for as many as I could. I don't want anyone to ever feel the way that I did.