Depression Remission: Is This a Thing?
Because I’m too scared to say I’m cured.
I’ve been a sufferer of depression and anxiety for almost ten years now, and something occurred to me the other day: I’m not suffering right now.
It’s like the clouds parted and the light shined down on me and I realized that the symptoms of my depression are all but gone and my anxiety has been well enough managed that I haven’t had a panic attack in months.
Could it be that I am cured of my mental illnesses through medication and therapy, or is this just a remission, however brief, that I must cherish while it lasts?
I’ve got a great therapist now.
For the first time in my life, I have a great talk therapist who is giving me everything I need and everything I didn’t even know I was missing when it came to good therapy.
She’s a professional, unbiased person to talk to once a week who listens and gives her feedback and advice to me, but even more than that, she gives me actual skills to use in my daily life to change my ways of thinking.
This therapist doesn’t hesitate to pull a workbook off her shelf and find the page that fits the problem I am dealing with at any given time and work through it with me until I understand how it can or…
