Can anyone answer this..................
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Can anyone answer this..................
| Tue, 01-03-2006 - 6:45pm |
Do you know the fine line of where you exist and where your illness does?
I've been trying to figure out where I begin and where the illness exists. Guess I just don't know who I am anymore.
I'm stuggling, somewhere within I am still fighting myself. I asked dh the other day, What is normal? Can anyone tell me? Because if there is a definiton for normal then maybe I can understand where I am not. I've got to find a way to understand this or else I'm just going to remain in this holding pattern I've been in.
I want to get off of this detour road and get on the main highway again but I just don't know how. I suppose I'm simply lost.
Thanks for listening to me whine.
~Danielle

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I've never contemplated this, Danielle & don't have an answer.
Sheri Ann
It's almost as if I see myself as a split person. I don't get it. I've always been this way, this is me and now someone is telling me that this isn't "normal" It's really thrown me through a loop. I really do feel defective now. I just want to go back to being me again and I don't know how to do that with the constant reminder of therapy and pills.
I'll try for chat tonight even if for just a little while.
Hugs & Positive Thoughts Always,
I wouldn't even presume to know what is normal, Danielle. The only thing I can say for certain is that there's a very fine line between mental health & not mental health. I just searched this out & maybe it will help. It has some good points. (((hugs))) jan
Mental health: What's normal, what's not
Deciding what's normal mental health and what's not is tricky. See how feelings, thoughts and behaviors are classified on the ever-evolving continuum of normalcy. Read more:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mental-health/MH00042/SI=2782
Well, whoever told you this isn't normal - ask THEM what "normal" is.
Sheri Ann
I know that feeling all to well. I feel I begin with knowing I am a good person and my panic attacts are the hills in my path I have to climb over and I do get to the other side.. yea there is stones I kick and some are heavey, but they do move.. Normal?? I know it is doing like the majotiy of people do, but I don't really think I have ever been normal and I really don't know if I want to be, I mean just like everyone else than I wouldn't be me? I look at the way I feel about myself, when I start feeling like I don't know who I am, Do and say the following:
1. I come here to get great support and see my dr, so at least I am getting help
2. I haven't quit nursing school and get fair grades.
3. I have a good heart and I care about people.
and from what you have said you are a good person and coming here to get others input,that says to me you are not staying in the so call pattern you say you are in.. So meet with us in chat tonight ok!!! It is fun and alot of good infor.I hope to be able to chat with you tonight... Lynn
Hugs & Positive Thoughts Always,
I don't want to be like everyone else either but I've never thought there was anything wrong with me to start. Yes, I've always wondered about my repressed memories but that was the extent of my not feeling like others. Now I feel like an outcast. I feel seperate from my family & friends. I want to be "MY" normal again and not bound by this.
I'll do my best to get to chat tonight but it probaby will be early in the chat.
Hugs & Positive Thoughts Always,
Hugs & Positive Thoughts Always,
yea I have felt that way too and you know I will be my new self,again that will be able to deal with anything at least that is my goal and when I quit smoking boy!!! espically after 33 years boy and my dr. wanted to take me off meds that were working ah no!! why stop something that was working?? boy I was a basket case for real..still maybe alittle I'm sure, LOL but aleast I feel I am in control and if it is my meds or any other tools to get me there than you bet I am not going to let this ever defend me, It crops up at times with out warning yesssss, but the tools I have get me through them and then I can keep learning more ways until I make the goal. You sound very determined to get to the place you want and you will get there, I know you will, but give yourself the time and accept the tools you need to get there. That's not being weak, It is taking the tools to built yourself stronger and stronger, we all need help and I am sure you have giving alot to others, so let others give to you..
Lynn
Thank you Lynn
I must tell you, I don't know what I would do without you all. I'm so lost most of the time these days and I'm more lost now than when I first started this journey. Maybe that is because I 'm coherent enough to see it. Who knows. I just hate spinning my wheels and going no where at all. I've certainly got my work cut out for myself.
Good luck with the smoking goal. I went 2 months and fell off the wagon. I'll try again when I'm ready.
Hugs & Positive Thoughts Always,
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