Welcome to our support community and thank you so much for introducing yourself and sharing your story. Take the time to read through the forums and familiarize yourself with experiences from others. The great thing is everyone does know where you are coming from and they can lend amazing support and advice.
Take the time to go through the program slowly, as it has lots of great information to help you progress. Take us with you abroad! We are always here and can be your shoulder to lean on.
Scotland!!! Beautiful country indeed. I visited Edinburgh and did a little tour to the Highlands a few years ago, absolutely stunning place. Will never forget those castles and those mountains!!
Yes the little Elmo video never, ever fails to put me in a great mood!! Glad you liked it :)
Sounds like you have a great challenge ahead and I am sure you will do great. I think is good you recognise is going to be challenging but rewarding.
Thanks so much for replying, wellandhappy! And I appreciate your advice on living abroad; although I anticipate it to be a great challenge, I also believe internal strength is built off of new obstacles. So although I am incredibly nervous, I'm also hopeful that this trip will help to develop my character. And, like you said, maybe I'll learn to depend on myself more :) Also, it's absolutely freezing and icy where I live right now, and I hear Scotland isn't nearly as cold which is nice because I find being outdoors really helpful for my mood.
By the way, I love your motivational video with Elmo!
I love your avatar picture :) Welcome to this forum. I'm sure one of the health educators will come and give you the 'official' welcome soon, but in the meanwhile I just wanted to say Hi and that of course what you have to say matters!!! It matters to me because I am depressed too and I realised that I need an environment where I can share my thoughts and actually be UNDERSTOOD by people who are going through a similar situation, or have my thoughts CHALLENGED by the wonderful health educators this forum has, and the rest of the forum members. You've come to the right place :) I wish you all the best on your studies abroad , what an exciting oportunity!! I myself live in a foreign country and away from my family so I know it can be a little scary to be away from your support network, but is very doable and I do not regret the experience at all. If anything, I've grown so much because being away from everybody is forcing me to develop my 'core' and to build a more reliable self. I feel that I can now trust and depend on myself much more than I did when I was back home :)
Good luck and hope you find this program as helpful as I have found it :)
I wanted to go ahead and say hello to everyone, and posting in a forum is a direct challenge to my negative thought of "nothing I have to say matters." So I'm doing it!
I actually began feeling a bit better yesterday after a month-long stage of severe depression. I felt really hopeless because I had been taking a medication for six months that was working fantastically for me, and I felt like it just "gave out" on me. But you know what? I think I forget to take stress and big changes into consideration, and am too quick to blame my brain chemistry. I need to work on my thought processes and how I deal with change, because I let it consume me and then fall deeper into the hole.
I am a college student, and despite having suffered from MDD and anorexia for seven years, I decided to take a risk and study abroad this semester in Europe. I am leaving in less than two weeks. At first I thought it was just bad timing that I suddenly felt this severely depressed (I was even suicidal at one point, but am no longer), but now I realize that the big changes coming up are challenging my mental health.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Sorry! Glad to be using this program now.
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