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Birth Date: Tue, Mar 29 1960

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Canberra ACT, Australia (map)

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Schools: Cert Art & Design

Jobs: Admin at Postnatal Depression group, nightfill at local Supermarket

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I was 8 I dreamed of going to Sweden. On 13/3/1980 I arrived in Stockholm, not for a moment thinking about the fact that I was on the other side of the world, all by myself. I had the best 7 weeks of my life and can still feel the coldness of snow falling on my tongue for the first time. It was really awesome to hold a snowflake on my finger and see the complexities of shape and colour - perhaps this is where I first got the idea to draw Celtic knots?
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  Beknec

Sat, Oct 13 12:00 AM

Wallowing in choc chip cookies

 

I only discovered about six years ago that I have had depression for most of my life.  The last time I was really happy was when I was about 23.  Sure, I have had flashes of joy and happiness, but that's all they have been - brief flashes of joy in a very black world. 

 

[I just realised when I wrote the above that I tried (and fortunately failed dismally) to top myself when I was 23.  How weird to remember that!] 

 

It wasn't till I started working with the postnatal depression group that I realised I had had PND, and also AND before my daughter was born.  I loved being pregnant, so it's very dialiectical to say the happiest time of my life was also one of the darkest. 

 

I went on antidepressants about five years ago - this coincided with two miscarriages and a bout of thyroid cancer on top of uni studies and all the other shit that was going on in my life at the time.  While it improved my headspace, I never have liked the idea of being on drugs at all, so frequently tried to wean myself off them with disasterous results. 

 

When I first started Tools seven weeks ago (is that all?  Seems more like a lifetime ago - and perhaps it is) I was in the process to wean myself off once more, this time because I simply couldn't afford to pay for the medication. 

 

I now know that I will never need to be on antidepressants ever again!  Tools has done for me something that no medication could ever hope to achieve.  It has given me the power to take control of my thought processes, to create positive synapses, of knowing that I can achieve anything I conceive and believe in, of believing that I am having a great day.  I got the power! 

 

For the first time in 24 years I can smile knowing that I am happy to my very core.  Knowing my spirit has been re-awakened.  Knowing that I don't need to be wallowing in those choc chip cookies ever again.  Knowing that YES, I AM HAPPY!

 

p.s.  I don't recommend you stop taking your antidepressants if you are on them, and if you do decide that you are ready to take that step, you need to do it very gradually over the course of a few months.

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AZangel99 AZangel99:

Baby Steps...

I hear you I hear you

Melsar Melsar:

Wow.

Thank you for sharing this part of the story of your life with all of us. Very inspiring.

autumn mist autumn mist:

CHOC CHIPS GONE, DEPRESSION GONE... THAT'S GOOD!

Hi Beknec,

 

It takes one to know one.  I am sorry for such misery you suffered for a long time, but happy you got over it.  Hooray!  Celebration (without choc chips).  Keep on clapping, splashing, brushing, smiling.  Have a great day!

 

Cheers,

Autumn MistKiss 

You're not alone You're not alone, many had suffered.  Sending you sunshine and bubbles.