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I'm really pissed off I haven't had that day yet!! Sigh. Just remembering there are good moments and good days (even if today is not really one of them). It's taken me quite some time to piece together trust and also clarity. Hang in there...you just got started with new therapy not too long ago right? Healing from anything takes time.
 
(I wrote that as if I now have clarity...I don't, but I do have more, or like the little "a-ha" moments Intrepid mentioned, I also discredit them easily and decide I'm not better in any way when I feel I'm not good enough or the way I want to be...I've also had a lot of stress and need to respect that I'm learning as I go)
 
In my experience the ah-ha moments come weeks or even months after the actual occurrence. You suddenly realize "hey, I am doing ok" or "wow, that doesn't affect me like it used to!" I had an ah-ha moment last Saturday, and it was a full five weeks after the initial event. Of course, when I realized it, I had a mini breakdown, but tis life.
 
Oh, and if you knock down all the little ah-ha moments, I think you're doing yourself a huge disservice. What difference does it make if we get there in one giant leap or in a thousand tiny steps? The important thing is that we are getting there! And what if you never make that one giant leap? wouldn't you rather have 999 small steps that get you 99.9% of the way there? I know I would!
 
That's honestly how my first (what? remission?) happened. Following 5 years of chaos, blood, death, pain, drugs, alcohol, sex, and generalized insanity. Pure dumb luck. So when this second bout hit? I waited a year (thinking it was just going to be another short run of a few bad months)... Looked back at how I "cured" myself the first time... Was violently ill... And flung myself at therapy, and trying to do anything but a repeat of those 5 years. Sniff. I miss when I had the energy to do that. Fling myself at a problem. It was the wrong kind of therapy. But it took us awhile to figure that out. 3 years into this run, and I'm honestly starting to consider the kill-or-cure chaos model. At least in my more screwed up moments.

Nope. Just waiting to wake up normal? Hell. At this point I wouldn't even trust it. I'm still learning all of the dozens of things that happened (badly) in those 5 years that equate to pieces of therapy. That I could have done without all of the nonsense. That I'm trying to learn to do on purpose, now, instead of on accident. So this doesn't happen again. Or at least, if/when it cycles around, I can stop it before blowing up this badly. Nope. If I woke up normal tomorrow? Not worth it, unless in can keep it. And to keep it, it has to be done on purpose. At least, that's my experience.
 
Haha I've had some of these rainbows and flying unicorns days. You'll have them too. Don't hang on to them though, they come and they go, they are very skittish.

I also had this ideal of "when I do such and so", I will be perfect. I've had to rethink. We'll always be kind of screwed, just like everybody else on this planet is kind of screwed. Now I'm learning that what it is about is being stable and calm in the midst of the bad and the good times.
 
I also had this ideal of "when I do such and so", I will be perfect. I've had to rethink. We'll always be kind of screwed, just like everybody else on this planet is kind of screwed. Now I'm learning that what it is about is being stable and calm in the midst of the bad and the good times.

Thank you for the rainbow and flying unicorn ;)
 
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