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Have you ever tried to recover?

  • In recovery for less than 1 year/with professional

    Votes: 4 13.3%
  • In recovery for less than 1 year/no professional

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • In recovery, 1-4 years/with professional

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • In recovery, 1-4 years/no professional

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • In recovery, 5-10 years/with professional

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • In recovery, 5-10 years/no professional

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • In recovery, 10+ years/with professional

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • In recovery, 10+ years/no professional

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Never been in recovery

    Votes: 9 30.0%
  • Previously in recovery, but not anymore

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • Total voters
    30
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everydayiloveyou

Arcanist
Jul 5, 2020
490
to everyone on SS with a mental illness: have you ever tried to recover?

How do you define recovery? And if you tried it, did you see a professional such as a licensed counselor or psychiatrist at any point? Or was it more of a personal journey for you?

To me, recovery is making the conscious effort to live and lead a life that's fulfilling to you. It's been about 6 years for me and I've seen psychs in and out. I'm about to try meds soon, but otherwise I've tried almost everything except moving across the country and starting a new life, and doing drugs.

obviously if we're on SS we're suicidal and/or pro-choice. So do you guys feel that suicide can co-exist with your recovery? I'm pro-choice so I don't think it will ever fully escape my mind. But ideally, if I recover I wouldn't need to think about it so often.
 
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newave3

newave3

I want out
Nov 21, 2020
2,802
No, for me suicide is absolutely inevitable.
 
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ClownMe

ClownMe

Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead
Apr 7, 2021
20,561
Tried to recover several times, nothing has worked for me so i've given up and just accepted that things will never get better for me.
 
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Makko

Makko

Iä!
Jan 17, 2021
2,430
Recovery means that there is something you lost that you're trying to get back. I can't get back something I've never had.
 
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FuneralCry

FuneralCry

Just wanting some peace
Sep 24, 2020
43,887
No, for me there is no such thing as recovery. I do not want to change and there is no way I can. I think my depression is perfectly rational in a life like mine. Taking my own life is the only thing that makes sense to me. I do not want to live until old age, the life expectancy is far too long.
 
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Fadeawaaaay

Fadeawaaaay

Visionary
Nov 12, 2021
2,160
Sometimes I'm tempted to abandon CTB- but how? Actually face issues and solve them? Why? I will be faced with poverty for the rest of my life… Why on earth would I want that?
 
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crippled with grief
Nov 8, 2021
335
Recovery means that there is something you lost that you're trying to get back. I can't get back something I've never had.
I lost the love of my life and if I try any harder to 'recover' I am going to end up in prison for harassment or assault.
 
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