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Coping strategies for depression and 'sex addiction'?
December 4, 2014 - 2:53pm
I was wondering if anyone here has had to deal with either depression, a desire for self harm, or sex addiction (which in my case seem to be quite interrelated, feeding on one another in a vicious cycle), and what coping strategies you have used to cope with either? Sex Addicts Anonymous? Any other experiences? Any advice would be appreciated. Also, whether a therapist was worth it in your case, what recommendations he had made, etc.
Sorry for the double thread.
I have to admit to not knowing anything about sexual addiction, but as far as I can tell, there is nothing inherently wrong with depression. I see depression as a state of being that often results from too many external factors bearing down upon and saturating an individual’s capacity to process them. The fact that there is an overabundance of depression inducing stimulus in society is no fault of the individual experiencing it. Over time I’ve come to understand that depression is merely one alternative means among many other contingencies that one resorts to in order to adjust to contemporary reality. I find it is no less of a mechanism that allows a person to continually acclimatize oneself to every new abnormal that this society conjures up. Others of course are better able to flow right along as if everything were normal. It makes it unclear to me as to which elements of society should really be offered psychoanalysis and treatment.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2013/05/depression-part-two.html
Thanks, Pondering. I feel a little better today. I had seen a psychologist recently, lots of very uncomfortable questions but gave hope. I felt like a therapist could not help, just talk maybe judgmentalism, looking for an excuse for my choices. I still feel uncomfortable but more hopeful, maybe more in control, I don't know yet. But definitely emotionally exhausted. But I think it's just a really bad bout in the last month and getting better. A friend had helped a lot too. Very thankful.
Thanks Glen. I can definitely identify with that. Triggers are elusive, difficult to identify. It comes and goes like waves, but seemingly unrelated to external factors. Even thinking an actions become compulsive and irrational.