How can you live with SA ?

[Clown]

How do you guys live with it ?
Im suprised that I made it so long 7 years of sa & gad..... thought things would change , but it was me all the time.
But now I know I will never be the normal me , how do you guys cope with that ? I can't accept it like some other people here ( like they are used to it there whole life and don't know any better like animal who is born in a cage who doens't know what world looks like outside his cage, and so its less painfull then for animal who knows it).

 

[planemo]

I've had SAD and GAD pretty much for as long as i can remember. How do i live with it? Well I don't really feel i have a life and live in all honesty. i'm just surviving the day, not really living it. If their was a magic pill to take in order for it to be gone, by the time i wake up tomorrow, of course i would take it... but there isn't. it's not that simple to be rid of. I can't say i have coped really... I feel lost. I don't want to be in the cage, but i have no wings to fly if i was let out.

 

[Clown]

why is it so hard to accept, people in wheel chairs live with it people in africa with hunger are happy. Are we to emotionally developed in a way that we care to much ?? there are enough people who are less social then me ( and not have sa ) have chronic disease, have no money , have no friends , have almost nothing and are still happy and don't care about the situation.

 

[Aron]

why is it so hard to accept, people in wheel chairs live with it people in africa with hunger are happy. Are we to emotionally developed in a way that we care to much ?? there are enough people who are less social then me ( and not have sa ) have chronic disease, have no money , have no friends , have almost nothing and are still happy and don't care about the situation.

I've been asking myself that question a lot. Why can't we live happily the way we are? I think it's because SA prevents us a very basic human need, the need for interaction with others, the need for bonding. Sometimes I think I could live happily in a wheelchair, if I didn't have SA. But maybe that's not true.

 

[Seri]

I guess don't have much of a problem with SA (apart from the anxiety attacks, ugh) because I don't want to socialize with others most of the time. Every now and then I'll wish I could at least get to know someone who had interests in common with me that I could spend time with. But apart from that I'm pretty happy with my own company. My doctor on the other hand is the one who insists that I interact with other people more *sigh*

 

[ridicule]

You just do. There's no manual to life, there's no "right" way to live. You make it up as you go along, it's your story.

 

[FriendlessGirl]

I don't know what life is like without SA. It's more like i was born with it.So its quite normal for me,like a part of my life.

 

[Flyingheart]

I'm not really sure cos like you, I've never really accepted that I've got SA or depression. I've always felt like 2 persons you know? like there's the normal me from way back..and then the SA me. but I feel like, as you say, I should be normal but im not :/ I realise thats not very helpful, but what made me feel better about it was telling someone from outside of my family. All along inside I'd felt like no one would understand and that i was a freak but I realised that bottling it all up doesnt help and it helped me to come to terms with the fact that yes, I never used to be like this but I am now and in order to change that fact the first step is to accept it, to live in the present and not the past.

 

[thomas90]

I cope with the tough times of having SA because I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have a "I will defeat this" attitude.

Every time i leave the house, i see it as another step to defeating my anxiety.

Doesnt make difficult times any easier, and i do sometimes come home in a mood but i guess thats just the crap i need to go through to reach my destination.

 

[IF ONLY xx]

Although sa is very hard to deal with at the moment the gad is the thing im having the hardest time dealing with, my anxiety attacks are in full fource at the moment and there coming quite alot too... It's mentally draining.