To my friend Barbara with Love

[Craigliving4Jane]

Morning Barbara

First of all anyone that continuously suffers that is searching for relief, in my humble opinion, is not a broken record. I commend you for your tenacity.

I looked up the amygdala part of our brain. So let’s try to break this down for a second ,.

If that’s indeed the culprit , then from what I know in my travels of this mental health world you need a medication to help that part of the brain function properly. Right?

If that is true, then obviously our goal is to not only find the proper medication , but the proper dosage.

My pain was so extreme in the mornings , it would lessen in the evening like yours, but I felt like I was sleeping in foxhole with bombs going off all night .I didn’t care if I was addicted to anything . Didn’t matter. All I needed was relief . something. Anything to help

I’m pretty busy these days so I’ve yet to crack open the Burns book that I just got. I’m assuming that you got a chance to read some of it?

Since you’ve done a ton of research on the acceptance techniques. I’m sure you’ve also tried all kinds of other holistic, therapy, etc., then this seems circle back around to proper medication , proper dosage,

My recommendation is don’t stop until you find it

For me, my depression was so bad for five years that once I found a little relief, I was scared to find enough relief to make my life acceptable. I was afraid of going backwards. I also was inundated with extreme side effects as I tried different medications, which makes it awfully daunting to keep trying to find that medication that gives you huge relief.

That said, I believe it comes down to this for us sufferers.

What are we willing to accept to get to what we really want

Make sense?

Much love

Craig

[hypercat54]

Who is Barbara?

[Dolphin14 in reply to hypercat54]

Was just going to ask the same

❤️🐬

[hypercat54 in reply to Dolphin14]

Great minds....xx

[Xene in reply to hypercat54]

At a very rough guess, possibly Barbloki but my crystal ball has gone foggy.🤷‍♀️

[hypercat54 in reply to Xene]

Ha ha. Mine's cracked so have had to chuck it out lol

[Xene in reply to hypercat54]

😂😂😂

[Craigliving4Jane in reply to Xene]

Yes

she posted today.

I’m so impressed with her and wanted people to know

[Agora1]

Makes sense to me Craig. Never lose sight of the goal.

Peace of Mind & Body. xx

[Craigliving4Jane in reply to Agora1]

Yes.

My very intelligent dad taught me at a young age to write out your goals and sketch out a plan to acheive them, whatever they might be ,and to track them periodically.

Then adjust where necessary as you go after achieving those goals

Stats say you’re four times more likely to achieve, said goals.

Have a wonderful day Agora

[Agora1 in reply to Craigliving4Jane]

You too Craig.

You were lucky to have a dad who taught you such an important lesson

in life. It wasn't until I didn't have to follow someone else's advice but

my own goals, is when I achieved them. xx

[Barbloki]

Just now seeing your post, had to search for it. Thank you for caring. I'm just in a bad space right now. I can only put one foot in front of the other. One day I'm up, then I'm down for 2 days. It's a rollercoaster. My emotions are affected by what people say to me and someone said some not so nice things to me yesterday and I've been a wreck ever since. I'm like a sponge and soak in everything I see and hear and take it personally.