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How do you escape paralyzing sadness?
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I can only recommend finding the root cause. Yeah, no small feat.
I thought and I might have had depressive episodes but the root was that I am an Autist and as such I had a completely wrong view of the whole situation and of me. This doesn't make it better per se but it's far more approachable.
Also had a therapist and while he helped me find that out he was no help for the resulting situation.
(edit: sorry for bad typing and autocorrect with bad eyesight lol)
I'm glad it sounds like you at least did figure it out. Sorry about your therapist though. Hopefully you found another one that could help.
He was pretty standard in like mother trauma and get your feelings and needs out. Nothing that I required help with per se, but still he helped me in my path.
A new one though is nowhere to be seen. I have pretty much given up getting a 'professional' diagnosis and a therapist that is able to cope with high functioning high masking adult autists. And that's in a so called first world country.
But now I know who I am and what I need.