My brilliant editor, Holly Rossi, compiled a beautiful gallery from the content of my post, "12 Ways to Keep Going." Click here to view the gallery.
A woman who lives with chronic pain said to my mom the other day, "You can't sit around and wait for the storm to be over. You've got to learn how to dance in the rain."
That's a perfect description of living with depression, or any chronic illness. But what do you do on the days you don't think you can take the pain anymore? When you want so badly to be done with the suffering? What do you do when anxiety and depression have spun a web around you so thick that you're convinced you'll be trapped forever in those feelings?
We've talked about this on various threads of Group Beyond Blue. From the discussions there and on the Beyond Blue blog, I've compiled a few tools for moving past that harrowing darkness, suggestions on how to emerge from a place of panic, and techniques for how to dance in the rain.
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i am treading water today. prayed and went to your blog and here it is =)
thank you so much for putting yourself "out there" your honesty faith and courage is on some days all that keeps me above water.
G-d Bless you.
You make sense. You just plain make sense. And you are so Kind and Compassionate, but a very real person to me. I appreciate you, and seek out Beyond Blue even when I am feeling Good. You are just plain Good for me, and so many of us who are "all too human." I know I am Divinely Blessed by His Goodness always, and able to truly overcome any pain and darkness through His Grace...those days of feeling vulnerable are so gone...cuz I am still here, like your writer Larry! I'd have sunk by now! Amazing Grace! You affirm what I know about Truth, putting yourself right out there for us all on your personal journey. You're amazingly brave and needed. You live to serve, Therese. Thank you. Bless you and yours always, and be Well. Beth
Ditto what Beth said! Amen! All those wonderful qualities compile Therese. What an absolute gift you are to us. Thanks. Valerie
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