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Glad that all seems to be working for you.

I’ve struggled for 21 years with depression and anxiety and I’ve been diagnosed lately with Borderline Personality Disorder and also Fibromyalgia so dealing with a lot just now.

So looking at all options.

I will hopefully feel better after I go through the pain management group therapy but if not I’ll approach thrive.

Cheers.
Hi Andrew, not sure if you’re into reading/audiobooks but I recently listened to Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts by Sally M Winston which is a bit of a game-changer. I could be wrong, and forgive me if so, but with your depression and anxiety I suspect you may have spent a lifetime talking badly to yourself, telling yourself you are worthless and imagining worst case scenarios which then creates a horrible thought process? This book goes a long way to helping the reader understand why they do it and also how to combat it (inner voices).

I suffered badly from intrusive thoughts and would spend days/weeks ruminating over them and arguing back against these thoughts which simply perpetuated the pain. It was exhausting, debilitating and rendered life to be unenjoyable, I literally didn’t find joy in anything despite being front, right and centre of occasions that should have been full of happiness. This book completely changed the way I think.

I may be miles off the mark and again, apologies if so, but it would be remiss of me not to suggest it in case it helped. All the best to you 🤝