Does anyone have any positive experiences getting back on their feet

[Walilamdzi]

after mental health problems?

 

[schopenh]

Yes. I suffered very strong depression for about 5-6 months after breaking up with my girlfriend of 6 years (I was aged 18-24 when we dated). You could say it was my first meaningful relationship and also I thought at the time this was the person I'd spend the rest of m life with. Naturally I went through a bereavement process. I was offered anti-depressants pretty much as soon as I expressed my feelings to my doctor, which is scary. I was too scared of them to accept, thankfully. Slowly but surely the depression related to that dissipated. I think it's much more difficult to come out of mental health problems if you've been on medications chronically. They pretty much produce symptoms tenfold when you try to stop them.

 

[ItsAllTooLate]

Temporarily, yes. I underwent hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming and it actually worked. For months suicide seemed like a ridiculous idea to me. It was so far off, one of those things I swore I'd never do. This was after multiple suicide attempts, so the therapy was actually effective. But now I have some shit going on with my relationship that pulled out all of those feelings from the closet. Fuck

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I only started to feel more positive once mental health services stopped trying to get me to take medications. They had spent a couple of years trying to convince me I had psych issues and needed medication, but I constantly resisted.
What I had (and have) are chronic physical issues that are marginalised, leading to anxiety and depression.
Now that they haven't been trying to gas light me, I've started to try and come to terms with my illness, develop practical coping strategies and try to listen to my physical and mental needs.
I try to push myself but also be realistic about what I can achieve. You can't do that when you are drugged or when someone else is telling you what you should think and feel about something they don't understand.
It doesn't always work and I'm quite limited as to what I can do, but I'm pushing myself as far as I can go without a diagnosis and treatment.

 

[lunargreenx]

I would love to say yes. But actually, I never felt pure happiness.