Joanne Smith says ask yourself what the recovered version of you would be doing, then start doing those things now instead of waiting to feel ready. Once you've confirmed you're functionally capable, action itself becomes the cure, with no downside and only more recovery as a side effect.
The decision to implement, the decision to do life again, the life that you would be doing if you didn't have all this crazy temporary inconvenience in your life, doing those things, ask yourself the question, what would the recovered me be doing? And then begin with a plan on getting those things in. Because ultimately, once you've done all the questionnaires and everything, then we know that you're working perfectly, you're not broken, and that's when recovery begins. The moment that we stop waiting to feel ready and we just decide to begin anyway. You've nothing to lose. It's like the, um, there's no side effects to this. The only side effect is recovery. So this is better than any drug or any medication you could ever have because it only ever has positive side effects, regardless of the root cause.
