Today I Am a Grateful Dude

[OceanDweller]

Throughout my life I have suffered from mental illness and addiction.

Today I'm coping well and have been clean and sober a while. I'm grateful because the difficulties that I have faced have all been within my power to manage. I was considering this morning how breathtakingly delighted a terminally ill patient would be to be told that the progression their illness was theirs to decide. I'm by no means underestimating anyone's plight. I know how debilitating OCD can be. But with learned support and hard work we can all dispatch our condition into remission.

And I'm so thankful for that.

[PolarBear]

The power is within each of us to change our thinking and behaviors. That's what CBT is all about. It's not about sitting there, listening to a therapist. It's about learning and then doing. Doing is the important part. You have to take the risk and jump in with both feet and just do it.

[paradoxer]

11 hours ago, OceanDweller said:

Throughout my life I have suffered from mental illness and addiction.

Today I'm coping well and have been clean and sober a while. I'm grateful because the difficulties that I have faced have all been within my power to manage. I was considering this morning how breathtakingly delighted a terminally ill patient would be to be told that the progression their illness was theirs to decide. I'm by no means underestimating anyone's plight. I know how debilitating OCD can be. But with learned support and hard work we can all dispatch our condition into remission.

And I'm so thankful for that.

Give that man a hand ... !