Circles, Cycles, Spirals
I suffer from depression, anxiety, and PTSD. As many of you know, each of these disorders comes with its own collection of cycles and often blend together to create fun-filled (/sarcasm) spirals. I'd like to take some time to explore each of these cycles and how they bond to create the mother of all spirals, leading to an oubliette from which it seems impossible to escape. I would also like to explore the tools that I have developed over the past....um...15(?) years to scale the wall back into a functioning being. These are tools that I have found on my own, and have been adjusted with commentary and concern from my friends when the tools became chains. *The Guilt Cycle This is the easiest cycle for me to enter, and often acts as the entrance into Spiral-land. Guilt is tremendously simple for me to feel, and I have only learned how to really recognize it after some time in therapy (see The Great Stockholm Syndrome Call Out of 2013). Guilt haunts me, and for a long time, I wor