Beyond Blue

Video: "I WILL Get Better"

Wednesday July 9, 2008

Categories: Mental Health, Video Posts

I don't know about you, but when I'm depressed, my self-talk goes something like this:

"This is uncomfortable ... I wish I were dead."

"I don't know what to do about x, y, and z ... I wish I were dead."

"I can't escape this sadness ... I wish I were dead."

"How can I get rid of this awful anxiety? ... I wish I were dead."

Do you recognize the common denominator? The only resolution I see is to give up and die ... either actively (when I'm extremely depressed and suicidal) or passively on other days. I don't have the energy or the confidence to problem-solve. Which is why I have to be proactive with regard to my self-talk when I'm feeling very depressed and anxious. If not, my thoughts will follow the path of least resistance--and fantasize about death. I have to make a conscious effort to turn them around. And I have to repeat over and over and over again this sentence: "I WILL get better."


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sandra weisz
July 31, 2008 11:28 AM

Hi Theresa. first i'd like to say you look very very pretty w/o makeup. i don't have bi-polar but i have severe reactive depression from being very very abused, having nowhwere to live nad everyone hating me. i am writing this from a motel room in the worst city in the country. losing my home and coming from a really bad family is making me suffer great fear, as the enviroment worsens with the illegal invasion, and no room for me, and no place to live. i tried too hard. i have to leave the state and i am having trouble letting go. i don't appreciate being called crazy either, by foul ppl with no heart and no soul. a lot of awful ppl took a lot of advantage of me lately.it is so wonderful you have a husband , children, and friends, and family. i have none of the above. and what "family" or ex's i had, or have are worse than strangers. they are gleeful at my suffering. i know i have to move to a small town where it is affordible, but it is so hard to do it all alone, as a delicate female, in the arts, now a hommeless bum. that's right , it's true. that is what i have become. i believe that depressiion is inverted anger, and in my case rage, esp. what some ppl did to me in the last week. making my life worse. it's in style in the los angeles area to be really really mean. i can't take it anymore.you're a great inspiration to me and many many others. God bless. sandy p.s. when i leave to a good area that is safe my whole personality changes, and i don't feel fear, anger and depression, but right now, well.... and the horrible suspense of not knowing what is going to happen to me.some ppl think it's only from the inside, this depression, also comes from the enviroment as well, if you can't take it. which i can't.

Matt Allard
July 31, 2008 1:40 PM

Thank-you,the last 3 days my fear has been so great that the pain in my guts keep me from wanting to go out today. When the bad thoughts come I try to blink them out. Trying to get that feeling of getting better feels just out of reach. But I have came far in my battle with this bi-polar disorder. I had it for years. Thanks for reminding me to find the good beyond the pain and fear. God Bless You, Matt

jill
August 2, 2008 8:54 AM

The most important thing in life is to remain positive. Even when things seem not to go well, having faith and maintaining a positive attitude is the best thing you can do for yourself.
If you have faith and keep looking up, all things tend to work out. Keep pushing steadily on-ward; go over the hurdles (placed there by God) don't focus time and energy on the distractions (put in place by the enemy)and keep moving toward the prize at the end of "the race"!

Beth
August 5, 2008 7:14 PM

Therese...you really are a a modern day saint...those who wrote "put all your trust in doctors"...we are just getting punked, right? I have to believe that...thanks T; you rock out, and you are suportive, which is what your goal is on here and with your heart-time dedicated to us, not to play doctor. We sane ones totally get that;).

Sande
August 24, 2008 11:57 AM

I have very sensitive circumstancial depression. In times of hardship, I become very disconnected with the bigger picture outside of the immediate worry I put myself in, and am capable of telling myself "I will get better" because I know now life will only work WITH me when I stop working against it. When I hear of people vulnerable to the advice that seems impossible for them to follow, (such as seeing a professional during financial difficulty, or explaining to those close to us what we're going through when we can't understand it ourselves, or even believe that we ourselves are worthy of love) it reminds me that the road to recover from guilt, pain, sadness, begins with being intentional with our self awareness and what we want to attract. EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, I AM GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. Because every day in every way, I tell myself I am worth getting better.

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