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@Arttubelady, medication alone isn’t a “magic bullet”. It’s more like training wheels, to help us with figuring out the strategies to keep us on-track…but we still need to learn how to ride that bike!
And here’s the really frustrating part: When we find a strategy that works for us, it’s so exciting that we embrace it wholeheartedly, as “The Answer!”
But, after a while, it becomes routine…and boring…so it no longer works for us. And we have to find a new strategy to replace it…which, eventually, will get routine & boring too. So, we’ll have to find a new strategy to replace it. Or, maybe, we’ll be able to go back to the first strategy, since it’ll seem new & exciting again…for a while.
“New & exciting” is the key, because our brains thrive on what’s interesting. If it’s not interesting to us, it just doesn’t engage our brains enough to get us going.
It’s definitely a life-long process!
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