Obsessive Compulsive Perfectionist

Me, trying to remember the "simple times" memories: .....

Me: there were like five of them, and I miss them. Can I have more please?

TW: Depression/OCD/mental health struggles.

I just wanted to ask. How do y'all deal with the knowledge that there isn't really a "cure" for mental illness? That it's something that will probably be with you for life?

I just. I guess I'm struggling knowing that. I know that there are medicines that make it easier, that therapy helps you learn to cope and deal with it. Even that there's a possibility that one day you won't really struggle with it anymore. That you'll get better.

But it's hard knowing that it just, idk, there's no cure. That there's no real guarantee that things get all better, or mostly better. There's a promise of coping mechanisms, of being able to address it with meds and therapy, that it will get easier.

But I just...Struggle knowing that chances are good these mental illnesses are going to be around for life. That feels like so much. So overwhelming.

Like. I've been struggling with them (knowingly and diagnosed) for the last seven years. More, looking back at habits I had before things really got bad and I got diagnosed. Though it was less severe back then. But still a problem, now that I understand what was happening better.

I just never get to be normal, nor go back to normal. I feel like I'll never be healthy again. I know that were I to go off my meds it would go right back to just as bad as before.

How do y'all handle these kinds of thoughts and feelings? How do you handle there not being an actual cure? Only things to help relieve symptoms and help you cope with whatever remains?

Just tired I guess. Anyway.

I'd love it if some of y'all could say something back. Even just a, yeah that's hard for me too, or this is what I do when those thoughts are bothering me, or whatever. I'd just like to not feel isolated, and to get some ideas how I might deal with it better.

I guess I'm just mourning the idea of not getting to have a normal life, of not having these struggles. It can be such a long and exhausting journey.