tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post2147267001316277095..comments2023-10-25T07:20:23.858-07:00Comments on Vicarious Therapy: "[R]ound [s]he throws [her] baleful eyes"Aquahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16230285017033299419noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-91198103728900954422008-11-17T11:50:00.000-08:002008-11-17T11:50:00.000-08:00Aqua, Thanks for such a powerful post.I hope it tr...Aqua, Thanks for such a powerful post.I hope it truly helped you. I often write that suicide is no longer an option. I so agree with your thoughts that it is often a release to have the option and to explore it. <BR/>Your post has given me room to think about the suicide issue in my life.Thanks again, AnnieAnniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11988654645814335483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-76411380579583557112008-11-16T13:19:00.000-08:002008-11-16T13:19:00.000-08:00If you find yourself in a dark and scary place, wh...If you find yourself in a dark and scary place, whatever you do, don't stop, keep going.<BR/><BR/>I read that somewhere and am paraphrasing.<BR/><BR/>Does anyone know if there is a online discussion forum for depression in Canada? It would be good to have a secure place where these thoughts and feelings can be discussed with others...ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16042224087238922851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-69306644151816418312008-11-16T13:14:00.000-08:002008-11-16T13:14:00.000-08:00I love you A, whatever your decisions might be. Yo...I love you A, whatever your decisions might be. You are valued and respected by people all round the world, as well as by the ones who know you in person. <BR/><BR/>That will never change...<BR/><BR/>((((Aqua))))<BR/><BR/>jcatjcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03736961961261409218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-6012840536294215562008-11-16T07:49:00.000-08:002008-11-16T07:49:00.000-08:00I'm glad you have the ability, no matter how much ...I'm glad you have the ability, no matter how much energy it takes, to fight off these thoughts and not just lay there and take them for truth. You are valuable. You are not less desirable. And maybe your life has been minimized dependng on the measuring stick you use, but that makes your life no less worthy of living.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "minimized", but it struck a chord with me as I read. I'm in such a struggle in learning how to live again, almost believing that at 32 I don't know how to live and work out the basics of life that it makes me want to give up...not suicidically, but in the realm of accepting the thoughts as true. But I refuse. However "minimal" the progress may be...I'll take it. And I hope you do also.<BR/><BR/>Hold on to your hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-16855113262789695552008-11-15T08:43:00.000-08:002008-11-15T08:43:00.000-08:00Yeah my life as I knew it for so many years is pre...Yeah my life as I knew it for so many years is pretty much gone forever from my perspective. Unless they come up with a cure. I have had to learn to live a different life and it's not easy. As you certainly know well. <BR/><BR/>I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to keep going. I feel that on a regular basis but I trust you that you'd get the help you'd need if it gets too bad. <BR/><BR/>I especially related to seeing everything around you as a way to end your life. My brain cruelly tempts me with that kind of vision/thought processing.Handsome B. Wonderfulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11524517496880481239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-59625237944395387422008-11-15T07:32:00.000-08:002008-11-15T07:32:00.000-08:00"I write about them because getting them out of my..."I write about them because getting them out of my head and onto the page seems to alleviate some of the power behind them"<BR/><BR/>I don't know how it works, but it DOES work. It's not magic, but you just do what you can to make yourself feel better. The same goes with therapy. If life is better with therapy than without, then the choice is obvious. <BR/><BR/>There are days when there is no hope, and to tell someone things will be OK is pointless, because the words lose meaning to someone without the capacity to feel hope. You are asking someone to hope that they won't be hopeless. It doesn't work. And when there are days which you have hope which is fading, it is cruel of someone to tell you just to give up, because there is no cure. Articles like that are foul. <BR/><BR/>No matter how bleak it gets, jus know that there are people who are listening, and who want you about. That knowledge is of great importance to maintain your resolve to stay put. Your people in real life need you Aqua, as do we all.<BR/><BR/>Love<BR/><BR/>Lola xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-13723639931040531992008-11-15T02:00:00.000-08:002008-11-15T02:00:00.000-08:00We thought schizophrenia was caused by the mother ...We thought schizophrenia was caused by the mother with double binding, we thought depression was caused by psychological factors. I could continue this list for a while. In the end we will find solutions for treatment resistant depression, as if anyone knows what that is but that is another subject.<BR/>More important, doctors should never deprive their patients of hope.<BR/>Take care, Dr ShockAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391563.post-58521357417594230902008-11-14T23:03:00.000-08:002008-11-14T23:03:00.000-08:00I don't know, I think the article kind of has a po...I don't know, I think the article kind of has a point. At some point, my shrink should just point out he isn't helping/can't help me and stop taking my money and time and giving me false hope. <BR/><BR/>I've been thinking a lot about that lately - that I need to quit going to him, but he insists that whatever voodoo he thinks he's doing can help, so I keep going. At some point, it's fraud. And it's hard for me to give up, for obvious reasons - useless hope mostly. Doesn't he have some responsibility to just tell me what that article says?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com