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Originally Posted by dalang  I think there is a big difference between accepting responsibility and self-blame. Although no depression is like another, I believe that most depressed do plenty of the latter but are afraid of the former. |
As a person who has suffered from severe clinical depression and went the attempted suicide route a few times myself, I'll have to agree with you, dalang... I don't think I've ever heard it put so well.
I used to get so pissed off (which was at least better than the depression!) when people would say that I needed to take responsibility for my life... didn't they know what I was doing to myself on the inside??? My days were filled with bashing myself in the brain with a baseball bat (you suck you suck you suck!) - how could they say that I didn't think I was responsible???
But to stop the self-blame and really take some responsibility... now that was tough. The biggest part of it for me was to accept 100% responsibility for my life, and to 100% accept
myself as a human being who was worth saving. Part of this was to get on an antidepressant.
No, I
didn't know "how to drive", but I learned. And I keep learning, and keep on crashing into trees.