:lol: well you've really come out of your shell here, kudos to you :wink: you've got alot to say and alot of experience under your belt.
i have my positive and negative days. today happens to be a negative one. i'm just waiting for the semester to be over. 16 days!! it's just so hard when no one around you understands. i don't talk to my friends about it, they can just kind of tell when i'm having a bad day. for instance, i didn't get out of be til 11 today and still managed to get in two naps before now (it's just past five here). but tomorrow's a new day...
yeah, therapy has come a long way. even when i'm feeling my lowest, i just think of all the blessings i have in the medical field alone. just having the awareness is a miracle. but now we also have anti-depressants and everything, therapy, etc. i try and imagine not having any of those things - i'd be a mess :?
but i see what you're saying completely. it breaks my heart to hear someone say that they have a parent or sister or significant other with a disorder of any kind - i immediately want to send encouraging words because i wish there would have been someone there for me when i was first diagnosed.
you don't come across very negative, you actually sould like you're taking the bull by the horns and saying "let's have another go" with the anxiety. keep going