The saddest thing about recovery is the illusion that you will be your old self again. When you are in recovery, you are in the process of becoming a new person with new set of ways to cope, with new set of ways to recharge and with new set of ways to find happiness. It’s basically starting a new life whether you like it or not.
So true
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Thank you. 🙂 💙
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Agree, when in the depths of depression we strive to be how we used to be, misguided illusion that recovery means stepping back in time to a place where none of this has happened. Every experience shapes us and in accepting the bad as well as the good we can learn and grow. I am most definitely not the person I used to be, I’m a better, more accepting and more complete person, because of my difficulties and I embrace that.
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Lovely insights, Karen. 💙 Thank you so much. 💙 🙂
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Sometimes the only thing you can do is aim for who you were, when you see what you’ve become and see the downward trend. It’s hard to aim for a new if you are so certain the new will follow the current progression of bad to worse.
Every time I recover it’s like I lose something that made me me. It’s better to hope for a me that is now dead than recognise the decay of the new.
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