I wish you had had a better psychiatrist. — unenlightened
Thank you. CPTSD and Bipolar Disorder make a difficult combo to treat. — Truth Seeker
It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. — Good Will Hunting
This means I am never "second guessing" myself because everything is done to a framework, applicable at all times. — AmadeusD
Think of trying for the best as Offense and avoiding the worst as Defense. — LuckyR
It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. — Good Will Hunting
Getting a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc opinion would also qualify as getting more information before making a decision. I always try to find natural remedies first and will seek alternate opinions if the first doctors are recommending pharmaceuticals or surgery first. They should always be a last resort. And another suggestion, children should listen to their parents more. Parents are not the ignorant, out of touch people that the media portrays to teens. Parents' motives are not typically related to money where a doctor's can be.It's not just a matter of having access to information. It's also a matter of who to trust. I chose to trust a qualified and experienced psychiatrist over my parents because I thought that was the right thing to do. I can't even come off the 600 mg of Quetiapine XL I take per night because my brain has become dependent on this medication, and I can't function without it. I am depressed even though I take such a high dose. — Truth Seeker
That is an unanswerable question, and best not to waste time contemplating it as it would just make your depression worse. There is always someone or some animal that is suffering more. It would be more productive to focus on ways to improve your life than to focus on things you have no control over or can never hope to answer.I meant whether my nonexistence would have been better for me, compared to the life I have lived so far, which has been mostly suffering. Also, my nonexistence would have prevented all of my negative and positive impacts on others and the world e.g. ecological footprint. I am a Vegan, Egalitarian, Sentientist. — Truth Seeker
Getting a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc opinion would also qualify as getting more information before making a decision. — Harry Hindu
That is an unanswerable question, and best not to waste time contemplating it as it would just make your depression worse. — Harry Hindu
I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder on the 5th of March 1998. My parents told me to ignore the psychiatrist and not take the prescribed medications. I didn't listen to my parents. I trusted my psychiatrist and took the prescribed medications. 27 years and 3 months later, I am still struggling with depression and all the side-effects of the prescribed medications. I have gone from 65 kg to 98 kg as my medication causes weight gain. My mental illness has ruined my physical health, education, career and relationships. I often wonder how my life would be if I had listened to my parents instead of my psychiatrist. — Truth Seeker
The important thing in choice is that you are the one making it, and not others. — Red Sky
I don't feel free. Do you feel free?
Here are some things I have done, currently do or will do even though I don't want to do them:
1. Breathe
2. Eat
3. Drink
4. Sleep
5. Dream
7. Pee
8. Poo
9. Fart
10. Burp
11. Sneeze
12. Cough
13. Age
14. Get ill
15. Get injured
16. Sweat
17. Cry
18. Suffer
19. Snore
20. Think
21. Feel
22. Choose
23. Be conceived
24. Be born
25. Remember some events
26. Forget some events
27. Die — Truth Seeker
I think this is a misunderstanding of freedom. Freedom does not mean freedom from the constraints of existence. That is death.
Think of it like a game of chess. You are not free to move pawns backwards. You are not free to move bishops sideways. The only way to do these things is to not play the game. And importantly, you are not free to win every game. But within the constraints of the game, you are afforded the freedom to choose any move you wish, so many choices that even the most powerful computer cannot explore them all.
Sometimes I feel free. Even when I do, I am still profoundly constrained by the environment, and by myself. Nonetheless, life affords a vast scope of choices. This can be agonizing, and wonderful. — hypericin
Why do you wish that you had made different choices? — 013zen
Imagine the world was such that everyone, always, made the best possible, optimal decision for themselves, leading to no regret, or second-guessing - would our decisions and their outcomes hold the same weight and import to us? — 013zen
What I mean is this, there are many things that, I think I could have done better, and its through reflecting on these things that I feel I've become stronger, and better equipped to deal with the world, and this makes my experiences unique and valuable to me. — 013zen
I just wanted you to know that you're not alone, and that I truly believe that we can make the best of our lives. — 013zen
I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder on the 5th of March 1998. My parents told me to ignore the psychiatrist and not take the prescribed medications. I didn't listen to my parents. I trusted my psychiatrist and took the prescribed medications. 27 years and 3 months later, I am still struggling with depression and all the side-effects of the prescribed medications. I have gone from 65 kg to 98 kg as my medication causes weight gain. My mental illness has ruined my physical health, education, career and relationships. I often wonder how my life would be if I had listened to my parents instead of my psychiatrist. — Truth Seeker
I often wish I had made different choices than the ones I made. — Truth Seeker
I will presume that your bipolar diagnosis was accurate. — BC
Excessive perseverating or ruminating on a decision seems to go with the territory of depression. And it's depressing all by itself. Antidepressants help, and cognitive behavioral therapy might help with that. — BC
No manic episodes? Not sure about hypomania? Maybe you are not. Don't know. Mania is unmistakable -- running from abnormally exuberant energy directed at odd projects to auditory hallucinations telling you to jump in front of a car. Hypomania might be fun for a while, but psychotic-level mania is an awful experience. So! Be glad you are not.
I imagine you have talked this over with your psychiatrist? Been rediagnosed? — BC
if you could change your life to whatever you thought would lead to happiness, what would it be? — BC
Maybe you saw the comedy bit posted in the Shout Box about "Slightly Less Than Two Drinks"? It's on YouTube. — BC
Twice I had a job which was fulfilling and interesting — BC
Right now, I am at minus two. What about you? — Truth Seeker
What jobs were they? — Truth Seeker
I know it is not possible to do. What about you? — Truth Seeker
From my perspective, you did the right thing. The man clearly has problems, and if he might have benefited from therapy, he most likely wouldn't have gotten it in jail--are you all still spelling it 'gaol'? — BC
I've been robbed at knife point a couple of times. it was a bad experience, and there was no arrest in either case — BC
We arrest and imprison a lot of people in the United States. — BC
Jailing prostitutes, for instance, doesn't make sense. — BC
Gaol is an old-fashioned word for jail and is not commonly used here any more. — Truth Seeker
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