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Dependable Skeleton
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2011
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Both, if you feel like it! I have to admit that I am kind of split over this whole situation. Part of me feels this girl's pain to a certain extent and realises she is probably going through an awful personal hell. Part of me is like "get me away from this crazy girl." Part of me is just a bit fascinated on a psychological/clinical level.
I thought it was supposed to be something you never entirely recover from or free yourself from if you have the condition? Is it just that there are varying degrees or you have to unlearn certain destructive attitudes and behaviours?
It's something of a yes and no answer. When I go down these days (which is very few and far between), I usually still have dark and deep thoughts of suicide, but I've learned to control my desire to act upon those thoughts in a harmful way. Instead, I've learned to channel it into something productive. If I want to hurt myself, I'll go out and run until my legs ache and my lungs burn.
I did not possess such a strong degree of the condition as it appears your friend did, but I recovered without resorting to medication and with very minimal therapy... I don't know how I did it, but I just found the will to live down there and climbed out of the hole I'd been digging.
Unfortunately, I've got to run to my next class, so I'll be back later with a more detailed response to your questions...