hey! That's brilliant 😀 may it continue. (I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least a bit of a Thing that telling people how bad it is does sometimes make it a bit better)
@Sion [main] External events are a factor but my reaction to them is way over the top or even exists at all because of the depression. I think the feeling is that I was somehow exaggerating how bad it felt (I wasn’t) to get attention, and now one of guilt for having alarmed or alerted friends now that 48 hours later I’m a bit ok again. And also a sort of fear that everyone will go away again.
Similar feeling regarding my therapist. She’s offered an emergency appointment rather than waiting until September but it doesn’t feel like an emergency today. Saturday evening it definitely did.
I think the potential for emergencies almost certainly counts as an emergency. It's a bit like standing on a plank and it wobbles, I think. If you try again and it doesn't wobble the next time it doesn't mean that it's okay to put all your weight on it, or that it's not worth investigating it as a priority, or that it was silly to alert people to it!
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Unknown parent • •@Sion [main] External events are a factor but my reaction to them is way over the top or even exists at all because of the depression. I think the feeling is that I was somehow exaggerating how bad it felt (I wasn’t) to get attention, and now one of guilt for having alarmed or alerted friends now that 48 hours later I’m a bit ok again. And also a sort of fear that everyone will go away again.
Similar feeling regarding my therapist. She’s offered an emergency appointment rather than waiting until September but it doesn’t feel like an emergency today. Saturday evening it definitely did.
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