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Too Shy · 17-05-2010, 08:17 PM

I think that's a very understandable way to feel. Especially because, as you said, getting better can be frightening - maybe as you're recovering you're learning a lot of new things about yourself, about ways to cope, about other people, about all sorts of things, and that change in the way you think and feel can sometimes feel very scary, especially when it's all 'novel'. I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but that fear as you recover is very understandable.

And swings in the recovery process are also very understandable - there's a lot of very difficult feelings to work through and process, and sometimes that can make things very confusing and almost make people withdraw back in a way, to a more familiar state. Recovering from depression is like firefighting in a way - as you put out the main fire, smaller fires can crop up along the way which also need to be dealt with. Maybe those swings in recovery are similar to that?

I'm not sure if this has made a lot of sense, so I apologise if it hasn't.

17-05-2010, 08:17 PM	#2
Too Shy Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: West Sussex I am currently:	I think that's a very understandable way to feel. Especially because, as you said, getting better can be frightening - maybe as you're recovering you're learning a lot of new things about yourself, about ways to cope, about other people, about all sorts of things, and that change in the way you think and feel can sometimes feel very scary, especially when it's all 'novel'. I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but that fear as you recover is very understandable. And swings in the recovery process are also very understandable - there's a lot of very difficult feelings to work through and process, and sometimes that can make things very confusing and almost make people withdraw back in a way, to a more familiar state. Recovering from depression is like firefighting in a way - as you put out the main fire, smaller fires can crop up along the way which also need to be dealt with. Maybe those swings in recovery are similar to that? I'm not sure if this has made a lot of sense, so I apologise if it hasn't.