So here's my question...when do you stop reading, booking appointments and obsessing over your dry eye? How will I know I've done everything and this is just where I'm at now?
Im bipolar with mixed traits (anxiety and OCD) so this disease has hit me hard mentally. I research all day, I have made multiple appointments with doctors. Most said initially, glands are plugged and you have foamy meibum. Last check I was told the meibum and the glands themselves are like 75% better. I'm not in constant agony but I'm also on a weak steroid. Eventually I will have to come off that which is scary as hell. I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm doing well is because of the steroids to be honest.
So im just lost...I'm mentally not here for my wife and family and I want to be. I just want my life back. This has been so mentally hard for me....you all know what I'm talking about.
In just scared, sad, tired and confused. Some days I'm positive and ready to kick ass and some days I'm just depressed I dont have my old, easier life back. I don't know when I'll just be able to say, this is as good as it gets and just accept it and move on.
Im wondering how much of this is mental. Am I causing my own problems to be worse, am I magnifying them?
Sorry if my ghougjys are scattered i red I just want to move on with my life and I don't know how to do that. And I feel guilty slightly. Because I know I'm doing better than some of you out there...yet instead of being happy with that I obsess over getting to be normal again. I'm lucky I have the greatest wife on the planet. She helps me everyday...she said she would never leave me as long as I kept fighting. I have the most beautiful, kind and sweet 6 month old daughter that looks exactly like me. I'm lucky, I just don't know why I can't see it that way.
I wish there were more active members to speak with...then again I'm glad there are so few of us here as well. Thanks for listening, Amy advice would be appreciated.
Im bipolar with mixed traits (anxiety and OCD) so this disease has hit me hard mentally. I research all day, I have made multiple appointments with doctors. Most said initially, glands are plugged and you have foamy meibum. Last check I was told the meibum and the glands themselves are like 75% better. I'm not in constant agony but I'm also on a weak steroid. Eventually I will have to come off that which is scary as hell. I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm doing well is because of the steroids to be honest.
So im just lost...I'm mentally not here for my wife and family and I want to be. I just want my life back. This has been so mentally hard for me....you all know what I'm talking about.
In just scared, sad, tired and confused. Some days I'm positive and ready to kick ass and some days I'm just depressed I dont have my old, easier life back. I don't know when I'll just be able to say, this is as good as it gets and just accept it and move on.
Im wondering how much of this is mental. Am I causing my own problems to be worse, am I magnifying them?
Sorry if my ghougjys are scattered i red I just want to move on with my life and I don't know how to do that. And I feel guilty slightly. Because I know I'm doing better than some of you out there...yet instead of being happy with that I obsess over getting to be normal again. I'm lucky I have the greatest wife on the planet. She helps me everyday...she said she would never leave me as long as I kept fighting. I have the most beautiful, kind and sweet 6 month old daughter that looks exactly like me. I'm lucky, I just don't know why I can't see it that way.
I wish there were more active members to speak with...then again I'm glad there are so few of us here as well. Thanks for listening, Amy advice would be appreciated.
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