Former Co Worker

[trying2movefwd]

Ran into an old co worker. She asked if I was ever coming back to work. She was a trusted friend at work. She listened, but Im not sure she understands PTSD or what living with Severe Major Depression recurrent is like, she was trying to be encouraging and said, "You just need to get in there and find that inner strength, that says Im woman hear me roar". My inner strength is just trying to convince myself to get out of bed most days. It sucks that people don't understand and we can't make them. I think she thinks Im just a lazy butt.

 

[EveHarrington]

Try not to worry about what people say/think. They won't ever understand.

 

[Tinyflame]

Just do the best you can in the way that works best for you. :hug:

 

[Sandstone]

It is hard, isn't it? Getting out of bed now probably takes more inner strength than dealing with the hardest day at work used to. Yet no-one can see that, so they don't understand the battle.

I'm determined to go on using it for whatever comes at me next. I tell myself it is like being on a diet. It is not falling off that counts, it is what I do next, whether I get up and go on with it. I often think I'm just being lazy, but then I think that if the majority of the the time I'm fighting to move on, then that is enough.

 

[trying2movefwd]

Thank you sandstone. You said that very Well.