When someone becomes disabled psychologically, you
cannot tell when it begins. Only when it gets bad do we then
send our loved one off to treatment.
What makes it difficult, is when that loved one stays in
denial longer than you would like. They don't feel broken.
They don't feel wrong. They are in a euphoria, they are
romanced by their symptoms, they want to stay right where
they are. They don't want medicine.
Medicine takes the euphoria away. It brings one back
down to reality. Maybe we like being in a euphoria, but what
we don't see, is our dangerous behavior.
This behavior can be walking in the middle of a busy
highway. going across a bridge and not jumping, or
laughing without cause..(this I can tell you is usually
a personal joke, that our psyche uses to keep us from
depression)...
We also denounce medicine, because of all the side-effects
associated with it..Only living and experiencing different
medicines given to us, can we begin to make a difference
in our own treatment.
Only when you have had a medicine before, and you
know if it works or not, and you ask your doctor to change
the current medicine to something you remember works,
does compromise show up..never to be fully cured, but
compromise helps you feel more in control over what is
happening to you..
We don't see your concern as tough love..we see it as condemnation..
So, hang in there. accepting treatment takes a long, long
time to get to the point of compromise, because first you
need to come out of denial...
Vocabulary ABC's
cannot tell when it begins. Only when it gets bad do we then
send our loved one off to treatment.
What makes it difficult, is when that loved one stays in
denial longer than you would like. They don't feel broken.
They don't feel wrong. They are in a euphoria, they are
romanced by their symptoms, they want to stay right where
they are. They don't want medicine.
Medicine takes the euphoria away. It brings one back
down to reality. Maybe we like being in a euphoria, but what
we don't see, is our dangerous behavior.
This behavior can be walking in the middle of a busy
highway. going across a bridge and not jumping, or
laughing without cause..(this I can tell you is usually
a personal joke, that our psyche uses to keep us from
depression)...
We also denounce medicine, because of all the side-effects
associated with it..Only living and experiencing different
medicines given to us, can we begin to make a difference
in our own treatment.
Only when you have had a medicine before, and you
know if it works or not, and you ask your doctor to change
the current medicine to something you remember works,
does compromise show up..never to be fully cured, but
compromise helps you feel more in control over what is
happening to you..
We don't see your concern as tough love..we see it as condemnation..
So, hang in there. accepting treatment takes a long, long
time to get to the point of compromise, because first you
need to come out of denial...
Vocabulary ABC's