What's wrong with me?!


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What's wrong with me?

In the past, I've been diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder, but those diagnoses turned out to be alcoholism in disguise. I've been unmedicated and doing well under medical supervision since I got sober a few years ago. Lately, I've been feeling weird, though. I don't think it's depression because I'm not sleeping too much, and I have hope for the future. However, I don't seem to take much pleasure in things, and I'm totally lazy. I'm not really manic like the alcohol/drug induced episodes I had years ago, but my head is in the clouds. I feel really directionless. I'm just waiting to see what happens next in my life and feel sort of detached from everything. My psychiatrist is not of any help. He tells me things like "my mood is depressed," but I'm not actually depressed. I feel like I'm at this big turning point in my life, but I don't know what actions to take or even what it is I'm supposed to be deciding. Has anyone else experienced this? What did you do?


Answers:

hey! I'm not psychiatrist and i don't even know one, nor am i interested. with all of your previous diagnosis i would do so much research that a psychiatrist would be learning from me, not the other way around. i would fill my down time with positive events. start a journal and write down your goals and what you would like to see transpire in the days ahead. thinking positively is just a start. you have so much to be thankful for and i feel you don't realize how fortunate you are.
as far as not knowing what actions to take in the turning point of life, join the crowd. writing down your desires helps. this is going to sound so far out there, but, have you ever tried yoga. yoga releases a lot of stress and gets you balanced spiritually.




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