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Originally Posted by Chado2423  I have days or sometimes moments of bliss. Sometimes it is true happiness, and other times I just think its elation. But overall those times are minimal. Perhaps I am growing, but I dk. That could be the case, but how am I to know for sure if this is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life or not? |
maybe you are really a manic/depressive - another often diagnosed "condition".
it's hard to have doctors tell you have "this thing", because that reinforces the idea that it's a condition. yet it can really be a process. Just like carenkh says the Peck book "the Road Less Travelled" goes into, and also the Moore book, I mentioned, "Dark Nights of the Soul" - it usually is a process.
think about your depression. doesn't it change from day to day? it's never really exactly the same, right? within the levels of being depressed there can be highs and lows too.
you know you write rather well? at least from reading your posts I say that. pretty coherently too. and you don't seem to be all defensive about what people are saying, you know? you seem to have openness. it seems that you might care, actually or why post. just saying these attributes are kind of not depression, if you know what I'm trying to say...