Ever find yourself thinking "I miss me?"
Do You?: Ever find yourself thinking "I... - Anxiety and Depre...
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You mean, you miss the old you, the healthy you? I hope that's enough motivation to do something about it. I also hope you have made that first appointment.
Yes. Before I went to the hospital and started meds I was fun, loved to hang out with people and laugh, was fit and energetic. Now I am boring, fat and secluded. I don't know if it's the meds I took for so long or the ptsd I had from two months in a rough hospital that included the mentally insane like Andrea Yates. I was assaulted there as well.
I was too young to remember me before this me, so I don't have any idea. I bet she was a cutie, sweet and very innocent. I do wonder, who she would have become, accomplished, I wonder, what if...What if, is futile. I just need to cope, manage this, make the best of this!
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Dont wonder who you could have become. You are you and your suffering has shaped you but I bet you are stronger, more caring and more tolerable of others. Be proud of who you are now. You are beautiful. I see it in your posts.
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Thank you, it's a struggle and will keep plugging away 
Yes. I'm new to this and I don't think my anxiety is that severe. But I'm hoping that by doing some cbt therapy I find an even better me. I'm certainly more understanding of anxiety by now so I can relate and hopefully help others going through it. Again I'm new at this only been about 3 months for me but at this point I'm choosing to be optimistic.
Yes Lord!!! I was talking to some of my former teachers, and were asking me to come back... full time😊😊😊!!! I had to admit that I am not the same "Batman" I use to be!!! I did use that exact statement to my Superintendent...lol!!! Anyway, we will be back on top, but maybe in a different role🤩🤩🤩!!!
Wow, it was a thought that I couldn't shake so thought I'd just get it out, didn't expect all of you to respond.
I figure I'd respond to myself to explain a little more before responding to your response 😊
I do have that ☝️thought often but the reason is not always the same.
Sometimes I miss the me before I ever encountered depression.
Sometimes I miss the me when I was at my healthiest, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Sometimes I miss the me I could have been, the one that I created in my head.
Don't misunderstand, I know I won't be any of those me's and I'm ok with that. But I think it's important to remember, and take a bit of good from each one so I can grow into the best me I can possibly be.
If you don't mind saying, around what age did your mental illness take hold?
14, I don't think I was even a couple of months into my freshman year of HS.
Same with me. High school really hit me hard.
High school was very difficult for me, but that's because I lost four loved ones during those years.
I feel like high school is a difficult time for everybody but I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you. I hope things get better.
No I am me, and I am free to do whatever I want. there are no obsticles.
I love your response. Someday I will be able to say the same thing with certainty.
I actually have that thought every day. I don’t remember the me, before everything happened in my life and sometimes I don’t even think I know what makes me genuinely happy. I started going to a new therapist and I think I’m going to take the step to talk to their psychiatrists, that way I can get on proper medication.
Sometimes it is difficult because people don’t understand, that you’re not purposely trying to be this way. It is an every day battle, to get up and do daily activities. I even find getting showers or simple things, hard when I am on my bad days, which unfortunately has been almost every day recently. I really hope you’re taking the steps to get the proper help you deserve and I also hope you know that you’re strong, just by taking the step to get on this platform and realize something is different.
Yes every single day
Yes, I used to feel that way all the time, but after a five-year struggle, it's finally starting to get better. I feel like I'll never be the person I was before, and that makes me a little sad. But I'll adapt to the person I am now, and that will just have to be good enough I guess.
All the time😞
All the time. But I’m coming back
Yes I think that a lot. I want my old self back, the one that’s not buried under all this anxiety and depression.
Wow what an interesting post and set of replies. I got a lot out of that everyone. Thanks! I miss me too at times and I like the way you broke it down into different parts Sasha.
yeah I miss the very old me and im only 46.i used to be called the smiler by some people afraid the real smiling me has gone forever.
I was always playing a sport and was often team captain. I can still play sports, once I'm a little healthier. I'm far from leadership material at the moment, but I think it's still in there somewhere.
Maybe smiler is still in there, waiting for a chance to come out 🤷 never know.
~S~
I sure do miss me!
Someone told me today that I look and felt like the girl I used to be, the girl that was freely living a good and happy life... this morning I told myself I would ware my brave face and not let anyone see what I’m really going through. This brave face reminded them of a happier me. This set me back and didn’t know how to take it. It made me miss the old me.
All the time. I'll look in the mirror and ask myself, 'Where did she go? I miss that other girl I was once before. Why can't I be who I was before?'
~Sky
YES! All the time. I was so different, in such a better place before a Monster-in-law and a special needs beautiful little boy. 20 years of not dealing with stress properly has led me so far from who I use to be I'm not sure if or how to get back to my true self. But I'm trying! And maybe my peace and happy wont look like it use to but at least I WILL find it eventually Good question! Thanks Hope you find yours too
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