How recovered are you?

[gaara]

How recovered are you guys since you first had the symptoms of an anxiety disorder?

How close are you to being the same person as before (as far as self esteem, core values, beliefs, confidence etc)?

Did you go through a deep depression?

Thanks!

[Robbed]

It's difficult for me to say. But after about 4 years, I would say that I am at maybe around 75%. Granted, even before I ever had anxiety disorder, I had SEVERE problems with confidence and self-esteem. And I still struggle with these things. As far as depression, this was always just something that would come and go along with the anxiety disorder. It was never pervasive in the sense that it lasted for months (or anything like that).

[gaara]

Things that should be important are now important and the things i was placed value in back then mean nothing now .


What did you mean when you say that? What sort of things mattered to you before that don't matter to you now?