18 Ways to prepare for and cope with difficult days of TDR — Treatment-resistant depression
Music 🎶 helps me a lot … “Then, when I am not feeling well and I find it harder to escape, I can use those same songs to connect to happier times and escape my reality even for a few minutes and give myself a break.”…
🌻 Sophie’s Note 📝. I struggle a lot with depression bouts because of my Bipolar 2 … and I find that there are days when meds don’t work, and I just have to push through it.
This article is based on people’s experience living with TRD – Treatment-resistant depression, and I find many of the suggestions helpful. I hope it can help you too …
SOURCE: https://themighty.com/2020/05/18-ways-to-prepare-for-and-cope-with-difficult-days-of-treatment-res/
What depression feels like … ⛅️
“the emotional equivalent of watching paint dry”
Healing … ❤️
pic credit: 🌻 Sophs
Healing … does not mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.
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background photo credit: Jay Castor on Unsplash
A Tale of Mental Illness — From the Inside – Elyn Saks.
A professor with schizophrenia – Elyn Saks has chronic schizophrenia, and she is a professor of law, psychology and psychiatry at USC. She might have spent her life in the back ward of a hospital, but that’s not what happened.
Elyn Saks is a law scholar at USC and author who fights for the rights of people with mental illness. Too often, Saks believes, decisions are made for these individuals without taking their desires into account.
She’s here to tell us her story. This is, she hastens to add, her own experience. “Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.”
What schizophrenia is
Schizophrenia is a brain disease, and the defining feature is psychosis — or being out of touch with reality. Involving loose associations and hallucinations. For example, during her episodes she often has the feeling that she had killed hundreds of thousands of people with her thoughts, or that nuclear explosions are about to be set off in her brain. She reminds us that, “It is not the same as multiple personalities. It’s not split, but shattered.”
SOURCE https://blog.ted.com/seeing-mental-illness-elyn-saks-at-tedglobal2012/
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