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Member Since Sep 2020
Location: Harrisburg
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Sep 23, 2020 at 11:08 AM
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Hey, everyone—I’m enrolled in an intensive outpatient program but I haven’t been there in a week. I’m currently weaning off an antidepressant and it’s been a nightmare for me, and then I came down with a sore throat. It’s been almost a week since I’ve left my house and after isolating myself for so long, I feel nervous about going “back out into the world” tomorrow and back to my program. Do any of you have this experience and how do you deal with it? I feel guilty for all of the responsibilities I pushed to the wayside over the past week because I think I’m coming across as flaky and disappointing people.
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Sep 24, 2020 at 12:19 AM
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Sep 24, 2020 at 05:56 AM
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Hello Rosepetal,
It's great you're feeling better again and want to go back. Oh the guilt... it's holding me back more often than not, too. When this happens I try to distance myself from these thoughts that try to make me feel bad for taking a break. My reasons for taking a break are valid even though my depression wants me to feel different. But if any other person took a break for the same reasons it would be okay so it's also okay for me. Maybe this helps you, too. You had a valid reason to take time to recover. And the people at the program know you had. __________________ “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy” -Leo Buscaglia |
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